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Oct 20, 2011

New Age Newspaper key members

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Oct 20, 2011

Johannesburg Mayors and other city officials

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Oct 20, 2011

Johannesburg Democratic Movement figures

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Oct 20, 2011

Johannesburg Arts & culture figures

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Oct 20, 2011

Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s

By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and struggling to avert state repression. Congr...

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Oct 20, 2011

The ANC and other Forces of Resistance after Union

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Oct 19, 2011

Indian Community in Lenasia

From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collabora...

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Oct 19, 2011

Johannes Willem (Jan) Viljoen

Imprisoned at Colesberg in 1846 for anti-British activities,  he took part in the Battle of Boomplaats, hunter, led a co...

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Oct 19, 2011

Gerrit Viljoen

Professor at the Classics department at the University of Pretoria, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University, Administrat...

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Oct 19, 2011

The South African War

The South African War To this day the reasons for this conflict remain the source of much emotive debate (read more). R...

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Oct 19, 2011

Local Government

When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep region, they brought with them a mindset...

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Towards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
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Oct 19, 2011

Towards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid

Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of Sou...

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Oct 19, 2011

Discovery of the Gold in 1884

The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogel...

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Oct 19, 2011

Market Square

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Oct 19, 2011

The Natal Train

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