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EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… second wife, Zondi Mandela, had died of pneumonia at the age of 46 on 13 July 2003. Makgatho was survived by four …
EventSouth African Police announce arrest of serial killer
… most wanted man at the time. Sithole, thirty-one years of age at the time, was arrested in connection with the murders …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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 …
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…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… where we are going. Then suddenly everything changes. A new road intersects with ours; it seems to offer a better way … can be found in economic factors and…
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…
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. …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… the position of Natal Indian immigrants and the impact of new Indian immigrants on the Natal Colony. The Commission … in 1900, 1903, and 1906 imposes an…
Statement by Denis Goldberg, ANC at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
… by Kader Asmal entitled "Reagan Administration betrays the new laws of war," published in The Legal Front recently in New York. Yet those heroic comrades of…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… after, his permanent one as well when he died there at the age of 44. At the end, Themba lived up to the maxim that him … to the University of Fort Hare. [vi…