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EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… was lovingly called, became involved in politics at the age of 10 after her grandfather was beaten by police. By 18, …
EventGeorge Pauling, builder of railway lines in SA, dies
… Central African countries. He came to South Africa at the age of 20. His company Pauling and Co. was a major …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education
… Society by Wayne Dooling Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs Bibliography …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… In early 1991, a national conference was held and a new body called the National Advisory Group (NACOSA) was … to potentially use against black South…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… their efforts did not produce desired impact on forming new and stable unions and recruiting new members. SACTU affiliation on the Witwatersrand remained ……
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… a man, or men, as well as a woman, or women, above the age or estimated age of sixteen years, of any Native tribe in South Africa, … No Coloured person, male…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… untold and undocumented. The conference seeks to open up new areas of research and new conversations on this topic which, in spite of its … struggle by…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… In 1940, Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), and a … running of the ANC. This he accomplished by introducing…
UCT Summer School 2020
… Empire in Europe, the expansion of settler colonialism in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, the Cape Colonial … zone. LECTURE TITLES 1. …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… had, I want to refer to an article which appeared in the New York Post. In it reference is made to the "Liberation … prohibit communists from attending…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) at age 57. Thereafter he became known as the face of the Boer …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… in which the right to life, regardless of race, gender or age is entrenched. …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… at the Pretoria Central Prison, where he died at the age of 81. Members of the Greek community in Krugersdorp …
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… went critical and South Africa entered the nuclear age. The US firm Allis Chalmers Corporation had supplied …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… a gardener and worked at High Leah, near Liverpool. At the age of 21, he came to South Africa and started his ministry …
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… Harry Oppenheimer, died after a short illness at the age of 91. Oppenheimer was admitted to the intensive care …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… the back of the organisers." Brig. Swanepoel died at the age of 70 the 7th of July 1998. …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… player, when he featured in his first test debut at the age of 18 years and 340 days. Adams represented South Africa …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… youth orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the … Sonderling, N.E. (ed) New Dictionary of…
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… suicide, the house she named "The Owl House". At the age of fifty, when her husband died, she stopped going to … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… an affiliate of the Black Consciousness Movement. At the age of 22 , he joined the first black consciousness …
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… voluntarily. He died in 2001 in his home in France at the age of 95. …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… publishing poetry and literary pieces which projected a new Black South African image. At a point when cultural … were surging forth onto the Black artistic…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… in the US, for instance in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York and publishes a book entitled A Familiar Talk Upon … Theology at the Union Missionary Seminary in…
Learning about history through objects
… can you see in the box? Do you think this is a box of new toys? What games do you think Ariel’s mother and uncle … favourite toy? How do you know that these…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… stopped to exist and they were re-incorporated into new South Africa, and they were absorbed into the new provinces. Since 1994, elections in South Africa…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… (see State President below). P. W. Botha became the new State President, until his resignation in 1989, when he … Party leaders Marthinus van Schalkwyk …
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… are: The raising of the educational test . . . Fixing the age majority at sixteen.... The necessity for an applicant … of being offensive to the Indian…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… Africa? A : I can only tell you that in 1968, I came to New York with the dummy of a book and showed it to a number … to be a black man in South Africa. It…