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EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… Assembly of South Africa. He died in June 1998 at the age of 84. …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she became the first African woman from … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… and long-distance runners until a hamstring injury at the age of 40 hampered his career. No longer able to run, he …
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The trip …
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… He left England for Zimbabwe where he lived until the age of seven. He and his mother immigrated to South Africa …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… in the region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The slave …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… first democratic elections. He died in 1997 at the age of 91, though it is believed he could have been at least …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… on Zulu Philosophy and cosmology. He died in 2006 at the age of 76 in Durban. …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… L.A. Hurst, said Pratt had suffered from fits from the age of eight. According to Hurst, Pratt battled with both …
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… trade. Promises were made to the ANC that as soon as the new government had implemented this model, conditions would … and create a genuine democratic South…
Christianity
… is the Old Testament and the second part is called the New Testament. The Old Testament is made up of the same books … online, listen to some of it in class,…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… of community life and gave the African working classes a new sense of identity. This is how Wilson "King Force" … through to Sunday evening. Music was…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the … would be narrated for decades…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October … for a democratic constitutional dispensation was not new, and was in fact as old as South…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
… possessing a large collection of well-dated middle Stone Age deposits that are well preserved. Sibudu Cave, boasts a … 77 000 and 35 000 Years ago during the…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… By the end of 1931 and early in 1932 construction of the new housing project had begun. During the second half of 1932 … Johannesburg was the most preferred…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Anglican Church. January, Bram Fischer is served with a new banning order for another five years. 23 January, The … announces its existence through a press…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… of cultures and sharing of cultural influences in the age of globalisation, there defiantly remains a tapestry of … against anyone else because of things…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… addresses the Special Committee against Apartheid in New York. In his address he urged the United Nations to do … political row when he suggested that South…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… of body: A fairly well-nourished man of about 35 years of age, muscles moderately developed, dead from 7 to 10 hours, … good, and as consequences the Indians…
14. Suicide among indentured
… of body: A fairly well-nourished man of about 35 years of age, muscles moderately developed, dead from 7 to 10 hours, … good, and as consequences the Indians…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… a desolate road that ends in an abyss. For our enemy, the age of illusion is coming to its ignoble end. The belief … and democracy. The pursuit of the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost … outside designated areas. Existing…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… thirdly, land has been purchased for the development of a new dug-out port at the Old Durban airport. In the Eastern … Ngqura and construction is now…
List of deaths in detention
… there were 67 acknowledged deaths. Year Name Date died Age Place Days held Official/alleged cause 1963 1. Ngudle, …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of South Africa. However in 1996, under South Africa’s, new Democratic Constitution the Homelands were dismantled and … become an Area rich in symbolism and…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… African interior provided economic stimulus to the new town, and by the 1860s it had overtaken Cape Town as the … amongst them were: Racecourse (1896) Walmer…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Lembede. Lembede died the following year, however, at the age of thirty-three.4 In the preparation of the documents … fuller information on Lembede, see T…
PlaceKwaxolo Cave Adventures, South Coast
… was halted during the Covid-19 lockdown , but with new Level 3 regulations, the business is operational for day …