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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. …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… frustration with TUCSA’s inflexibility in the face of new worker activism reached the point where she began to … publicly disassociated itself from Harriet’s…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… the success of Africa`s socio- economic blueprint, the New Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD) and other … we can learn from Gramsci as we work…
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… from Africans in the routine performance of their duties. (New York Times) February, The Pondoland Rebellion: an … continued massive arrests of persons of…
ArticleList of parties 2009 Elections
… Federation of Democrats National Democratic Convention New National Party …
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…
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)…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… of life should be displaced by others derived from this new light – they should not be simply rejected without … and influence. Isaac was quite critical…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… a few months of the formation of Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), a new student movement evolved, with urgent issues that took … the disparity and not further…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 …
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 …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… said; “Natives [Africans] must be taught from an early age that equality with Europeans [Whites] is not for them." …