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EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… killed in the stampede were four children, the youngest age five. The stadium was filled to capacity with spectators. …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, gave women of any age or marital status access to abortion services upon …
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… that will unify the African Diaspora and lead them into an age of peace and prosperity. Rastafarianism has a following …
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… Eastern Transvaal, was published. Fitzpatrick died at the age of 68 in Uitenhage on 24 January 1931. …
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Anton Lembede's primary school class, Umbumbulu, 192.7 (Bemadette Sibeko) Inset of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
At this stage, it was not at all clear that Europe would come to dominate the world. The intention is to provide a comparative overview of some of the major…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… sabotaged. Furthermore, on 3 September 1984, the day the new constitution was promulgated by the Government; … affiliate to protest the increased charges…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… sabotaged. Furthermore, on 3 September 1984, the day the new constitution was promulgated by the Government; … affiliate to protest the increased charges…
The National Arts Festival
… found their voices on the Fringe stage returning to stage new and old productions. The National Arts Festival’s Fringe … NAF continues to provide a platform…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… were founded around this time. Picture source: wikipedia A new era: changes in Europe bring about changes all over the … During that time there was a re…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… be studying the role of women in the progress towards the new South African democracy. The year 2006 was a landmark … with the Boers and ignored the claims…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… of Parliament (MPs) meet to discuss matters and decide on new laws. The word Parliament comes from the French word for … to do with the Constitution. If…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… Held a lecture at The International Centre of Photography, New York, U.S.A. 1980's Freelanced for UNICEF and The High … Buckshot still remains in his body…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… his great-grandson, King Louis XV became king at the age of five. Both his parents and brother had passed away in … Estate’s cause, Louis XVI accepted all…
ArticleOrigins of major world religions reflected in SA
… to Christianity every day and in Nigeria about 20 new religious sects or groups come into being every month. …
ArticleState of the Nation Addresses
… and then one after. The SONA marks the opening of the new parliamentary session and is considered an important date …
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… The past is another country. For we are conscripts to our age Simply by being born, we wage The war we are; ... - W H Auden From: Conscripts to their age:…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize … exile by men she regarded as father figures – once at the age of five, and twice after her…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… (Seyco). It held its first significant meeting on New Year’s Eve 1985, the students singing and chanting … Chiefs who had fled returned under police…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… prepare a common voters' roll of everyone over the age of twenty-one, that the country be divided into electoral …
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… Cape Peninsula Cemeteries requested the establishment of a new cemetery in Stikland, Cape Town. Later that year, the Cape Times reported that the new…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… INTRODUCTION. Unomsa, by Guybon Sinxo, is a coming of age story about a gothic heroine, Nomsa Ntobeko, who migrates … Unomsa into Drama. Unomsa, by Guybon…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… 1927. The fee was targeted at individuals over the age of 18 who resided in the homes of standholders, whose … 19 Although the town council maintained it had…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… politics and students. Students became inspired by a new working class politics founded on a vision of a … socialism. This cultural change intersected with a…
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… Honourable Members of Parliament a happy and productive New Year. I am confident that 2008 will be one of the most … the best of times, it was the worst of…
PlaceGhana
… that the area has been inhabited since the early Bronze Age (ca. 4000 B.C.), but these societies, based on fishing in … with the arrival of crops from…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… references, are there. Male children, under 16 years of age, are now called upon to take out permits before they can … matter how necessary it may be in…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… He had been accused of sodomy in Batavia in 1713 at the age of eighteen. Due to insufficient evidence he was banished …
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… he was imprisoned for four and a half years, from the age of 21. After his release he pursued a career in …
EventAnna Neethling Pohl, South African actress and author, is born
… Reinet in the Eastern Cape on 24 December 1906. At the age of five she joined theatre and continued to perform until …