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Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and establish a new Constitutional order. This year, 2014, marks 20 years of … of their White compatriots. Today South…
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…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… peasantry as those who were able to take advantage of the new opportunities and technologies participated actively in … African occupation had been retained…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… 2016 HERMANUS Loots, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 79, was a senior member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who … of International and Public Affairs,…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… they could lay the foundations upon which would raise a new nation. We have gathered here and elsewhere in our … with each generation called upon by the…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new way of representing difference that does not entail the … a language of politics and society with…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… negatively on the policy itself. It was indicated that the new government experienced some difficulties in the … public service and a distressful inability…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… of Steve Biko in police custody. These events led to a new round of Security Council meetings and a mandatory arms … became overcrowded as the state halted…
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed away after a long …
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… At the age of 88, Clarence Makwetu passed away in Queenstown Private …
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman who has died at the age of 91. As a Member of Parliament and a vocal critic …
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… his Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at UNISA at the age of 35. On 24 October 1981, the Walter Battiss Art Gallery …
ArticleThe Basotho
… a minor chief leading a group of young men of the same age during the early 1800’s. He defended a mountain fortress …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… were released from prison after 27 years, heralding a new age of freedom in a country that had known only the …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… recently defeated Afrikaner republics agreed to create a new white minority state in which blacks and white women were … the right to vote. During…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… policies of the old Afrikaner Republics and harsh new immigrant measures to restrict the entry of Asiatic , both former residents and new arrivals, into the…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… 2016, at the federation’s sixth National Congress, six new National Office Bearers (NOBs) were elected. At this … took over from Koos Bezuidenhout and became…
Durban an Overview
… a settlement with a regular grid of streets, and named the new village after Sir Benjamin D’Urban, then Governor of the … but was destroyed by fire in…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… of all communities and both sexes. It was agreed that a new court, more representative of South Africa's diverse … felt that this task would be too difficult…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… boycott of South Africa from the 1964 Olympic Games. 1967 New Zealand All-Blacks cancel tour of South Africa in … Whites – pending special permission. 1981…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… sporadic skirmishes began to take place between these new immigrants, or Boers as they became known, and the … but also refused to pay the customary Hut Tax…
Chapter 8
… FRANCHISE, i.e. the right of every man and woman over the age of 21 to elect and be elected to Parliament, Provincial … together with the restrictions upon…
ArticleTimeline of the 2014 general elections
… of registered voters was 24 112 414, and the number of new voters added to the voters roll was over one million. … living overseas cast their votes. The…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… and Poland. Only thirteen per cent were under 21 years of age at the time of their arrival; 32 per cent were in the … division of labour reflected the urban…
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… doctor and Cape community leader, died on this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African …
EventJoseph Kasavubu, first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo dies
… did not know his father and lost his mother at the age of 4. He was raised by his older brother who sent him to …
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… with his father’s inheritance since he was approaching the age of 21. De Melker was hanged on 30 December 1932. …
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… involvement in political activities started at an early age. In 1942, while he was still a student at St John’s …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years … of pottery, domesticated sheep, goats and cattle…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… 5 and 6 at missionary schools were transferred to the new school; and that their parents would elect a school … role of the School Board Obtaining a building…