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EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… 1955, Smith passed away due to a heart attack at the age of 51.[viii] End Notes [i] Willie Smith, …
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
… this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the …
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… prizes. Cussons died on 25 November 2004 in Cape Town at age 82. …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… (presumably compulsory) of Africans from the age of 14 for a period of 3 years. 2. The compulsory …
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 November, 2007, at the age of 88. …
ArticleThe Constitution
… ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, …
PlaceMasorini
… There are also some implements dating back to the Stone Age. This village offers an insight into the economy and … technology employed by the hunter-gathers,…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age. At the age of five, she already had tourists paying to hear her …
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… Gwangwa secure a place at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. There, sharing a flat with Hugh Masekela, his … tickets as food, as he imbibed…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Party (DP), New National Party (NNP), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), United … Indian-led Minority Front (MF), which…
ArticleRock Art
… animals also marked this infiltration, as these new people were farmers and they had tamed animals, such as … retreated to the mountains, avoiding conflict…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… and Koedoespoort [iv] . His aim was to establish a new town for the new state of the Transvaal. [v] By end of 1855, the two farms …
ANC Today Volume 10 No.1, 15 - 21 January 2010
… are YOU doing? All social partners have demonstrated a new-found and collective will to address the challenge of HIV … of all our people, will be a defining…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… those currently pushing notions of visual culture for the new South Africa. These women, Berni Searle , Jane …
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
… (AP) Progressive Party (PP) National Union Party (NUP) New Republic Party (NRP) Progressive Federal Party (PFP) …
ArticleSouth African History Online and Southern Methodist University Partnership Project
… and biographies. Introducing American students to SAHO and new scholarly efforts in South Africa reveals the …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… (CAC). March, The Indian Reciprocity Act is passed in New Delhi by the Central Legislative Assembly. It imposes the … advice of Professor Macmillian and…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… peace the only alternative is war and war in this nuclear age means incalculable destruction to civilisation - the … of liberation struggles. We welcome the…
PlaceBredasdorp, Overberg
… found a love for books and writing from a very young age. The passion grew and in 1927, at the mere age of 9, her first essay was published in the … Audrey…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… to read the Quran but think with her mind. From a young age, el-Saadawi was taught to think creatively and … it. This experience led el-Saadawi to realize…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… having been temporarily sent to Nova Scotia. [17] The new arrivals were not necessarily welcomed by the local Temne … missions. [19] The Nova Scotians…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… day with the great carnival held in Cape Town every New Year. The penetration of missionaries into the interior … which in turn started to influence the…
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… We have come together, in what some believe is a new age of reason, because we know that the knowledge and the … message that the peoples of the world are…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… negotiation forum to negotiate the principles of a new constitution and the composition of an interim or … for the convention were constitutional principles…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… of people who had made no solid commitment to break the new laws, ended in chaos when the police intervened. The … laws, ordinances and regulations and by…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… JH Brand succeeds Pretorius as OFS President. 1866 The new Anglican Cathedral is opened in St George's Street. 1867 … 1883 An institution for the mentally…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… after winning the King George and Q.E Stakes.[v] At the age of 48, Muis retired after a severe neck injury,[vi] he …
PlaceAlfred Nzo District Municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal/Eastern Cape
… was appointed as midshipman in; ' HMS Euryalus " at the age of fourteen. On the abdication of King Otto of Greece, in … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceSeal Island
… Island you will see mainly male seals waiting to “come of age” for breeding. The Duiker island colony is not a breeding …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… November 1820. Apprenticed to a coach painter at a young age, he left for South Africa in 1842 to work as a portrait …