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ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… assist them through their first year of administration. On 11 March 1854, Clark, together with staff and troops, left … rest of South Africa. The first…
PlaceElandsfontein Private Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Discover Elandsfontein and their rich fossil heritage on a guided Quad Bike Fossil Safari or 4WD Nature Drive. The dunes on Elandsfontein are the final…
PlaceRobberg Nature Reserve
Robberg Nature Reserve, situated 8 km south of Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route, is not only a nature reserve, but also a National Monument. Rocks from this…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions and decisions of its last National Executive Committee (NEC)…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Town 6 km West of Germiston and 11 km South of Johannesburg. It was laid out on the Farm, …
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… latter, in Klaassen Road, Bishopscourt, were proclaimed on 11 April 1945. …
PlaceGoodwood
… Municipalities adjoining the metropolitan of Cape Town , 11 km from the centre of the City and in the Bellville … municipalities adjoining the metropolitan…
EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… in the race by the Comrades Marathon Association. In 2010, 11 years since his ban from the Comrades Marathon, Motsoeneng …
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… Motsamayi, which allowed him to travel the region. On 11 January made a surprise appearance at the Pan-African … Available at www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu…
EventSt James Church massacre
… after the St James Church Massacre. He was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Sichumiso …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… (TRC), Coetzee said that Khondile had been killed on 11 August 1981. After his release from detention, the police …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… guilty of murder and was sentenced to death by hanging. On 11 November 1995, Saro Wiwa was executed, as were the other …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Malan and his co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October 1996. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1995). Keesing's …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act which enforced registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting held in…
EventThe SA department of foreign affairs announces that the bodies of two South Africans have been found in Thailand
… It is estimated that 11 South Africans lost their lives during the devastating … & Guardian , [online], Available at mg.co.za [Accessed: 18 December 2014] …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… Town on 9 July, and the sides met again in Johannesburg on 11 July to close the series. Around this period the team … of the Decade,' in Kick Off 1994-2004,…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter who had abandoned their first…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… of some diseases (2) 1977 1978 Cholera 0 4,967 Trachoma 12 1,109 Typhoid 2,624 3,913 Tuberculosis 45,298 51,828 … hospital beds in urban areas are…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… as “an undesirable and outlandish element in South Africa”.12 They said this despite the fact that 95% of the Indian … if he was fired or if for some reason,…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… Da Gama to return to India as viceroy. He reached Goa on 11 September 1524, but died at Cochin three months later. His …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… honorary doctorate by the University of South Africa. 1946 11 February, John Dube dies in Umhlanga, Natal. 1950 …
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… to the meeting. In view of the announcement on April 18 1985 by the racist regime in South Africa of the … and dedication to the cause of Namibia's…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… the Pioneer Corps. [i] The history of pioneer corps dates back to 1854 when the Army Works Corps was formed in …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… by calcified sediment in an underground pool. The sediment dates to between 1.78 and 1.95 million years ago. Visit …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… to 1914. Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 12, pp. 508-18. The poem by Dayaram (1777-1853) at the end of the article … a theft. The police had…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded worldwide and …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… the UN denounced the Bantustan (homeland system). On 12 November 1974, the United Nations General Assembly …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S Open championships. For 12 years, Ashe was ranked among the world's top ten tennis …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Botha at Tuynhuys 1989 21 August, Harare Declaration 1989 12 September, First official meeting between exiled ANC …