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… by The Department of Education The transition from apartheid to democracy, from White minority rule to liberation, is one of the most important turning points in South Africa’s history. To establish what kind of turning … causes, meaning and consequences of the transition from apartheid to a democratic order in South Africa. What was the …

… Race relations during the decline of the Apartheid regime were particularly problematic as many Whites … cause of the events that transpired on the 13 May 1989 in Welkom, a small town in the then province of the Orange Free State when the mayor, … Mayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered …

… South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W …

… Dalene Matthee, laurelled Afrikaans writer, is born in Riversdal, CP.  Her best-known book, Kringe in ‘n bos (Circles in a for …

… Jomo Kenyatta is freed after serving nine years in prison for his part in the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. …

… Gerstman (83), composer and musician who also lectured in composition in Pretoria and Cape Town, dies in Cape Town. V …

… Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe, SA artist, is born in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal.   He died in September, 1972, in a motor car accid …

… Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a …

… Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide …

… The Rev. Wilhelm A. Alheit is inducted in the DRC in Colesberg.   He and his daughter drowned in 1910 at Kleinmond. …

… minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in …

… In the Parliamentary by-election in Durban North, the Progressive Reform Party’s candidate gains the party’s first seat in Nata …

… Prof. W.S.  Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl …

… Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur …

… Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included …

… The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a …

… 1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa … He is appointed Secretary of the Special Committee against Apartheid. 1966 E.S. Reddy is Appointed Secretary, Committee … of the United Nations in charge of the Centre. 1985 February Mr Reddy retires from the United Nations but …

… the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where I once lived … Salt River, Observatory and Mowbray but as a result of the Apartheid Group Areas Act were forcibly removed from … since 1903 before they were first forcibly removed under Apartheid from their home upstairs and later had to give up …

… was responsible for holding together the various anti-apartheid movements and was sent overseas to mobilise resistance against apartheid. In Britain on the 24 June 1986, Tambo met with Lynda Chalker, … In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets …

… Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born in Idutywa in Transkei on June 18 1942. Both his parents were activists. … in economics at Sussex University. During the years of apartheid, he played a major role in turning the … Thabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei …

… son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was born in 1935. His parents were well-respected peasant farmers of … were made to sabotage his car. He was killed by an apartheid death squad in 1978 in Durban. Nonetheless, he … David Tshikalanga. All were policemen and agents of the apartheid government‘s death squads. In 1996, 15 years later …

… A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the … Station in Johannesburg on 11 August 1963, much to the apartheid government’s anger and embarrassment. As the police … a novel for teenage children that highlighted racism in apartheid South Africa. Babette Brown died after a short …

… Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April … from time to time, however, her involvement in anti-apartheid politics became her main focus. In the late 1950s, … Unterhalter, Alan Paton , and Peter Brown , before the apartheid government forced it to disband. Around the same …

… Joseph Nong “Joe” Thloloe was born on 01 July 1942 in Orlando East, Soweto to Nokuthula and Joel Letebele … who were politically inclined and abhorred the system of Apartheid, like Ellen Kuzwayo  and Thamsanqa Kambule . …

… 16 December is a day of great significance in South Africa due to two historical events that took place. … , which was launched to wage an armed struggle against the apartheid government. Prior to its formation, the ANC had largely approached the fight against apartheid through passive resistance, but after the …

… Overview of relocation in the Transvaal: Paper presented at National Conference on … and homelands, land ownership, squatting, housing, apartheid. … Overview of relocation in the Transvaal: Paper presented at National Conference 1983 …

… The Defiance Campaign was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. During the … than 8 500 people were imprisoned for refusing to obey apartheid laws and the campaign attracted thousands of people …

… South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National … Mentioned: United Nations, role of white South Africans in Apartheid, overview of Apartheid structures and principles, detention without trial, … South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National …

… Patrick Matanjana was born in 1943.  Bra Pat, as he was affectionately known, was a … African National Congress ,  Umkhonto weSizwe (MK)  and in 1967 he was sentenced by the apartheid regime to 20 years imprisonment on Robben Island. …

… Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the … in 1992. He is honoured for his role in opposing the apartheid system as a church leader and for taking a brave …