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Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… from Black people and led to the formation and growth of new political bodies. British segregationist legislation … of 20 000 members. Discrimination…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in … in 1929, she lived with her grandparents from a young age…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 at King Edward VII Hospital. She suffered a stroke … Sister of Queen Elizabeth Had a…
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… of corruption. Matanzima died in 2003 in Queenstown at the age of 88. …
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… [7] Globally, these protests escalated to Amsterdam and New York as South Africans in the Netherlands and America … Africans in America took to the streets…
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… panel discussions enticed lively debate, identified new avenues for research and opened up new partnerships and collaborative opportunities between …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… establishment of its kind in southern Africa, embodying a new concept of educational work among young African women. … for African girls, represented not…
ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… Introduction President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new members of the National Executive, for the seventh … with 32 Ministers and 43 Deputy Ministers, …
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… in the early 1890s was in growing Dutch newspapers. New newspapers included Ons Land, De Paarl, Onze Courant, … Hofmeyr was the editor of the Volksvriend at…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… Mpumalanga, were nearing their end of life. The average age of the coal fleet, excluding the most recently built … picture of just why South Africa is…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… track him down but of course this was in the pre-Google age so it was not an easy task,” adds Egbers. “I eventually traced him to New York where he lived at…
EventWilliam Selborne Dies
… of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, dies at the age of 82. His predecessor was Lord Milner. He first retired …
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
… his win to his late baby daughter who died at the age of eighteen months in February 2000. He won the down run …
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… of space, with man-made satellites orbiting the earth, the new and interesting discoveries made in the Geophysical Year, … continent of Afrika is in labour,…
ArticleMapungubwe
… of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… to confine them to the mine compounds at the heart of the new economic order — the Witwatersrand. Where the criminal … with greater certainty, however, is…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… He showed a talent for music from an early age and his first attempt at composition was in 1899. Most of … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South…
EventSipho Ngomane of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban.
… Sipho Ngomane of Nelspruit started running at the age of 16 after playing soccer initially. On 16 June 2005, …
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
… Zambian golfer Madalitso Muthiya began playing golf at the age of six. After he broke a bedroom window while playing …
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… it has been approved by the President of South Africa. A new coat of arms, replaces one that has served South Africa … to highlight the democratic change in…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… late 19th century to celebrate achievements and to share ‘new’ knowledge. Here, racial hierarchies and rankings from … British colony was established at…
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… Province). He attended his first singing lessons at the age of ten. After completing his education and military …
EventKaren Muir
… At the young age of 12 years, 10 months and 25 days, Karen Muir from … South African swimming great Karen Muir dies at age 60, … orts/former-south-african…
EventNelson Mandela is buried in the Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, in his home in Johannesburg. He was born in Mvezo …
EventClive Derby-Lewis dies
… died after suffering from lung cancer. He died at the age of 80 at Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria after he was …
EventTrader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies
… place Ranavav, India where he was born in 1862, at the age of 14. He undertook a voyage to South Africa in 1876 and …
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political …
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… Wessel Pretorius, died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age of eighty-one. He was elected as president by the …
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… and tall. She never dreamed of becoming a model. At the age of fifteen she was scouted in a mall in Durban. …