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EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean independence is celebrated on 18 April each year and Robert Mugabe has been at the helm …
EventSADF officers dismissed
… the SADF, set up under Lieutenant-General Pierre Steyn. On 18 December General Steyn presented his preliminary findings … S.(1997) ,' Lies and Cover-Up ',…
PlaceOld Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. This former government building, an architectural treasure in itself,…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… was not Rhodes’ passion and the diamond mines beckoned. At 18, in October 1871, Rhodes left the Natal colony to follow …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… diamond fields [11] , and around 2,000 in Cape Town. [12] The attitude of the governments of the Boer republics was … whites in terms of Queen Victoria’s…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… 30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solitary confinement due to my being the ……
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… authorising an annual allowance of £15 for each male and £12 for each female in training. Later, in order to secure a … created under Acts 41 and 46 of 1925…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that…
PlaceConstantia
The other picture of a Mansion, 'owned by Deputy Minister- Paul Mashatile, in Constantia. (Link in Further Reading.)The Former estate in the magisterial…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… at 9am to the Methodist Church, Rockville, Soweto. At 12 noon the cortege will proceed to Alexandra Old Cemetery. …
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… 1894. The Court suspends his certificate, No. 017169, for 12 months from the date hereof. [8 August 1917]” …
EventProVerb, the South Africa hip hop artist, television and radio presenter is born
… ProVerb was born in Kimberley, [i] Northern Cape on 12 April 1981.[ii] He is a on-air radio presenter, radio …
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… plaque on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs 12,7 tonnes and was manufactured by Emil Kessler of Esslingen …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… his plea for a republic. This was also the first time in 12 years of government that the National Party (NP) was able …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… May 1959 the National Football League (NFL) was formed by 12 clubs from Johannesburg, and Pretoria. When FIFA suspended …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Scouts at Modderfontein". Military History Journal - Vol. 12 No 1 [online] Available at: samilitaryhistory.org …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Islamic Studies University of Durban-Westvilieday, Monday, 12 Rabi alAwwal 1414/30 August 1993 …
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… of 26, he was the youngest member of the conference and in 1982 was the last of his generation to die. Selby was the … in ‘Contact’. Henry Selby Msimang, who…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… went on strike at the Witwatersrand Gold Mines on Monday 12 August 1946 . The call on 13 August by the Transvaal …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… of land and by entering into a burgher militia. The first 12 free burghers settled along the Liesbeeck River in 1657. …
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the provincial bestuur (administration) took place on 12 January 1884, attended by delegates from Standerton, … They resolved to hold a larger congress in…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… historical events to someone else ranged only between 18% and 29%. These findings suggest that levels of knowledge … the past was “not very” or “not at all”…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… position for which nature or circumstances has fitted them.12 It is difficult to believe that the Eiselen Commission, … planned policy [for the development…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… developer would reveal a vivid orange or yellow message." 12 The innocent letter would be organised around a … by sabotage on "the part of the cowardly Greek…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… leader F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… Court. Those who committed crimes while under the age of 18 are, however, exempt from prosecution. ICC: Structure … – are elected to the Presidency by a…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… hostility and political intolerance in KwaZulu-Natal. 12 The release of Mandela was also regarded by criminal … war in Natal: Pietermaritzburg under the…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… home in Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth, on Monday morning (18 January 2010) is being mourned throughout the Eastern …
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… more than 8000 students, 30% are postgraduates and over 18% are international students from 54 Countries around the …