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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- Khotso Seatlholo
- Lesley Hastings Ndlovu
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EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
ArchiveRiot police play a game of soccer with youths in Nyanga on 27 August 1976
ArchiveA certificate of slavery for an infant named Sophie
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
ArchiveRiot police attempt to block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House
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ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
EventSt James Church massacre
ArticleFootball in South Africa
EventReservation of Separate Amenities Act No 49 commences
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
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