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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, South African Indians and their complex problems seemed to a … and me strange. Yet for those…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… University of South Africa, better known as UNISA, was founded in 1873 as the … formal racism. The University has regional centers across South Africa’s nine…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… of separation of the Cape Province from the Union of South Africa is now opportune and should be included within the … Sunday preaching the message which…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole governing body of soccer in South … Available at: news24.com …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether South Africa should become a republic. The result showed that 52% … remain within the British…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… serious damage and deaths as far as the east coast of Africa, with the furthest recorded death due to the tsunami occurring at Rooi Els in South Africa, 8000…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… Government! On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… an indictment on the social and political structure of the South African society. This alone is evidence of there being … when he sentences me? My sentence…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo-Boer War (South African War) of 1899-1902, that had displaced large … also one of Milner's plans to…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… corps, Honourable members, Distinguished guests Fellow South Africans, Good evening, sanibonani, molweni, riperile, … with all the parties in Parliament as…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of … if students are to become…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… as the only real representative of the people of South Africa. So you had a shaping up there... Taylor: So basically … against them all. Taylor: Quite a…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… Samora Machel of Mozambique and Prime Minister PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggression, and … on the border between the two…
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… was one of the most important campaigns waged by South Africa’s liberation movements in the 1980s. For Indian and … yet others really believing that they…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… the first company awarded the bid to operate the South African National Lottery. Born in Germiston, Gauteng, … from working outside of his place of birth…
EventSADF's 31 Battallion is disbanded
… The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was … deployed in South African townships and who fought in the war in Namibia. President F. W. de…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the … in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The Constitution…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former Rwandan … United Nations. South Africa's involvement in the murky world of arms…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… and concludes a peace treaty. 1859 Gereformeerde Kerk in South Africa is formed and Paul Kruger becomes one of the first … fighting would stop if this…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… European's settle in South Africa for the first time and begin to further colonize and … cape, by the middle this century the first Khoikhoi-Dutch war is…
Address by the President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Civil Society Forum of the WSSD, Johannesburg, 23 August 2002
… of civil society, Distinguished delegates to the World Summit for Sustainable Development: On behalf of the government and people of South Africa, I am…
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… On 24 June 1973, South African athlete Danie Malan set a new world record in the middle distance 1000m event in Munich. … set the world record time for the…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… explorer, Batholomeu Dias. When the Dutch colonized South African in the 17th century, the island was used to … of their countries. When the British took…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… on the other. And yet, whenever the history of the South African resistance movement is being discussed or … In 1961, when the government decided to declare…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… from the UP by the split decision in 1939 to take South Africa into the war, and by the disruption of the war effort. By 1948, there …
EventEfforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group against SA debt rescheduling prove unsuccessful
… Efforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group in Southern Africa to persuade banks in the United States (US) not to allow debt rescheduling against South Africa…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… to this policy which is seriously threatening peace in South Africa, by undermining confidence in the Government of the … for indeed "what will it profit to…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was … Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the South African…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… But we see it as in the interests of all the people of South Africa that they hear what the ANC has, as an alternative to … system, and that it is firmly…