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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
23 March 2023
Programme Director, Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, Acting Premier of Gauteng Ms Qedane Mahlangu, Fa...
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Rock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
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Rock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
22 March 2023
Paintings and engravings on rocks in the open air and on cave walls are called rock art. There is rock art on about ever...
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Neil Robert Tovey
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Neil Robert Tovey
22 March 2023
Former Football player, South African Coach
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Genocide Masquerading: The Politics of the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprising
19 March 2023
“Genocide Masquerading” uncovers the implications of US foreign policy on the rise and decline of apartheid, looking spe...
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Sharpeville and After: Suppression and Liberation in Southern Africa
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Sharpeville and After: Suppression and Liberation in Southern Africa
19 March 2023
Sharpeville - 21 March 1960 - sixty nine Africans were shot dead by police, hundreds injured and thousands arrested. The...
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Steve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
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Steve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
17 March 2023
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of inde...
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The sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
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The sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
17 March 2023
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could ...
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Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
17 March 2023
Programme Directors, Tumi Makgabo and Marcus Ziegler, Your Excellency, President of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter, Your Ex...
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Pitso John Mosimane
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Pitso John Mosimane
17 March 2023
Former football player, South African Football coach  
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Timeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
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Timeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
17 March 2023
1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for dockworkers were not imp...
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Timeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
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Timeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
17 March 2023
1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into effect on 27th April 1...
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Dannhauser
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Dannhauser
17 March 2023
The Town of Dannhauser was named after Renier Dannhauser, a German settler, who purchased the Farm: 'Palmietfontein', fr...
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Cosatu scores its first soccer team
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Cosatu scores its first soccer team
16 March 2023
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Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
16 March 2023
Mr. Chairman,  Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC,  Comrades and friends,  Compatr...
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Letter to FIFA instructing $10m payment for 2010 Soccer World Cup by South African Football Association, 4 March 2008
16 March 2023
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