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EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… in the 1950s [Online]. Available at: wiserweb.wits.ac.za/ [accessed 02 July 2010] …
ArchiveInterview with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
… Oral interview, conducted in Bloemfontein, with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, on her experiences …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… Tambo, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Mission in exile. Professor Hoffenberg married Margaret …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) – in …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Republiek or Transvaal Republic. In 1854, the Contract of Bloemfontein was signed and the Boers founded the Republic of … Anglo-Boer War). On 13 March 1900…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… Sandra Reynolds was born on 4 March 1934 in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the … final.[viii] She married Lowell Eldred Grant Price in…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… in December 2017 by Makhosi Khoza after she left the ANC, but Khoza resigned from the party four months later. It is now helmed by apartheid-era unionist and…
EventHistory of December 16
… 1935, the All-African Convention (AAC) was held in Bloemfontein to protest against the racial policies of Prime … weSizwe (MK) and launch of the armed…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… State Province of South Africa, about 60 km North East of Bloemfontein. It commemorates the Boer women and children … both the aeroplane and Gnome engine now…
PlaceJubileum Building
… On President Brand Street Bloemfontein, is the Jubileum building. It was built in the … https://freestatetourism.org/bloemfontein-attractions/ …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi goes into exile, she joins ANC in Zimbabwe and works in political structures under the … Two of the hostages die; several are…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Germany;from the National and Democratic parties to the ANC and SACP;from the Mass Democratic Movement to Inkatha, … an objective that is relevant within a…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… Muslim representatives, which was attended by the PAC and ANC. Before reaching London, he stopped over in Holland where …
PlaceOnverwacht
… the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from Bloemfontein. The place was composed of about seven barren … Ethnic Control’ , [online], Available…
EventOlive Shisana is born
Prominent South African academic, Dr Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… oppression and of outlawing the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) also prompted the … movement (in which the African…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) … officials in the ruling African National…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein set aside Winnie Madikizela Mandela's sentence …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Collections. Source: www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za The Group Areas Act stated that its purpose was to … strikes and anti-pass campaigns were launched…
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… born in Mangoanaleng, Matatiele, Eastern Cape. He died in Bloemfontein in January, 1980. His siblings included Manasseh …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… youth joining the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… inspired the founding of the African National Congress (ANC – formerly known as the South African Native National …
EventSwanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers
… an apparent rightwing-inspired ammunition theft at Tempe, Bloemfontein, in June 1998. Du Preez's younger brother Petrus …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… referring to the lobbying for a Youth League at the 1943 Bloemfontein conference of the African National Congress. The … in 1943, which siphoned some youth…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… campaign between the African National Congress (ANC), and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) known as … Port Elizabeth leaders, such as Ray Mhlaba ,…
EventThe town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded
… the town being connected to Johannesburg, Harrismith and Bloemfontein by rail. The town’s name is of Hebrew origin and …
EventNew Prime Minister P.W. Botha appoints cabinet ministers
… for defence and national security was given to the MP for Bloemfontein West and Chairman of the National Party (NP) …
PlaceWagon Museum
… situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic wagons and …