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List of deaths in detention
… there were 67 acknowledged deaths. Year Name Date died Age Place Days held Official/alleged cause 1963 1. Ngudle, …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… in Dar es Salaam December Gives a press release Delivers a New Year Message to U Thant , Secretary-General of the United … Africa in Stockholm 18 June…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new territory in the Eastern Cape region and bringing people … amongst these were: Racecourse (1896)…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… of a distant past. Nothing that has happened during the age of democracy could justify the conclusion, similar to the … organisations said: "CODESA must…
PlaceKwaxolo Cave Adventures, South Coast
… was halted during the Covid-19 lockdown , but with new Level 3 regulations, the business is operational for day …
ArticleList of parties 2009 Elections
… Federation of Democrats National Democratic Convention New National Party …
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… in Stellenbosch on 23 January 1952.[i] In 1987, at the age of 34, Henry became the first South African cricketer of …
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… 7 April 1847 in Fort Beaufort in Cape Town. From a young age Maxeke showed musical talent. She finished primary school …
EventPiet Retief, Voortrekker leader, is born
… in what became the Cape Colony under British rule. At the age of 27 he left for Stellenbosch, but eventually settled in …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… to play for the South African under-20 rugby team. At the age of 22 he played his first international rugby match …
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of 92. Often referred to as the ‘Mother of the Nation’, …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… Jenny and they would often run together. In 1984,at the age of 17, Budd made history when she twice broke the world …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… during her first marriage. Kuzwayo died in 2006 at the age of 91. She is survived by her two sons. … Ellen Kuzwayo, Anti-Apartheid Crusader, Dies at 91 , The…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… where he died of tuberculosis on 5 December 1834, at the age of 45. …
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… Cape Town, a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York, and a PhD. from Oxford Magdalen College. Apart from … months after his birth, but he also…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… clear cut, with voting patterns inspiring the emergence of new compacts across the racial divide. Nineteen political … concerned about the fate of specific…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South … full support behind the HNP, and its members…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… practical guides meant to help settlers adjust to their new environment and publications related to local businesses. … before moving to South Africa’s…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… results obtained in the general election held in April, a new cabinet is sworn in. 19 May, John Vorster visits Malawi … P.W. Botha announces that South…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… to the wealth of the country." Consequences of the New Policy The Cape Suffers from the Official Miscalculation. … in the Cape is being positively checked…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… other, transformed the destiny of mankind. It opened up a new dawn for millions of people. On the occasion of our … but you are striving to create in each…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… other, transformed the destiny of mankind. It opened up a new dawn for millions of people. On the occasion of our … but you are striving to create in each…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… some contact with blacks involved in homelands . A new phase in the UDF was once again ushered in as changes … and often people carried on as before but just…
Grade 11 Archive
… parts of the world based their policies and laws on the new ideas about race that were developed by the Europeans at …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… Suez Canal; used to ferry troops from India, Australia and New Zealand to the Western Front. 18 February Germany begins … 70 000 Allied troops, including 15…
PlaceWagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt
… and includes a popular picnic and fishing spot. An Iron Age site dating back to AD 1300 is found on Makhabeni Hill … Moor Park and is listed as the first…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… within the colony, but were prohibited from importing new slaves. The settlers and government turned to the … for Europeans The 1820 settlers were…
Pietie Norval was born on this day
… 1970 in Belleville. [i] He began playing tennis at the age of 7 years old, and turned professional at 18. [ii] …
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… and Fishing Industries that leads right up to this present age. One can also contact the museum in connection with …