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Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… very great step forward if we could establish an organ in the negro language. I suppose that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… The original building was apparently already in existence in 1890 when it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… younger brother Mohammed on Monday said he believed that the surviving security police, who detained his brother in 1971, now had a second chance to tell the…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his … character Oom Schalk’s day had mostly been shot out by the late 20th Century and it was…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… The second Convention for a Democratic South Africa, or CODESA II, ends in a deadlock. The negotiating parties ie. The South African Government and … for a…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… On 17 August 1960 Gabon, the last of the four territories, which had formed French Equatorial …
EventEgyptian and Israeli forces in fierce fights
… From 6 to 26 October 1973 Israel and a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt and Syria were involved in a bloody war in the Sinai desert and Golan Heights…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… You wrote on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in The Republic") "Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of …
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… designed by Architect; D.W. Wentink and built by H. Heath. The cornerstone was laid on 7 June 1898 by President Steyn, and the building was completed on 15…
PlaceGallery 101
… In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, France) … founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art. The original location was…
EventPotgieter barters land from Chief Makwana
… Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter, one of the leaders of the Voortrekkers, obtained the territory between the Vet and … Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five…
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… into a countrywide truck drivers' strike on 1 March. The strike involved over 35,000 workers, who were demanding a wage increase of 9 percent across the…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… Paleontology ; Ethnography & Zoology collections . The McGregor Museum was originally located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February 1990, the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Cooperation…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… Clifford Hume Knight purchased the land in 1901, and subsequently built his residence upon … in a neo-Renaissance style with features reminiscent of a…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's old fruit and vegetable … converted into a modern building. A huge…
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
… Moses Josiah Madiba , the author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, was born at Uitvlucht, … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995)…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, wrote on 17 August 1906 to the…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… Maxeke , teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was … documentaries, collaborating with her son Hugo Cassirer on…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie, he left the Victor Verster prison (later renamed Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the outskirts of Paarl…
PlaceGod’s Window
… A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this day. It is dubbed the … B. J. & Spies, S. B. (eds)(1993). South…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… Mother Teresa, the nun who captured the world's attention and accolades with her selfless … school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… On 27 August 1986 a crowd of more than 500 marched to council offices in Soweto, … after an eleven week rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the…