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ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… Because of the government's ‘homelands’ policy, no new high schools were built in Soweto between 1962 and 1971 … business's need for a better trained black…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… Piet Joubert to investigate and finalise the siting of a new town north of Pretoria. Executive Council authorises the … now Polokwane) 1886 Opening of a…
ArticleThe Transkei
… they returned to their people, bringing vigour and a new approach to the conduct of chieftainship. Both at Qaukeni … Nationalist government moved to invade…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… the problem of how to sustain the enthusiasm of their vast new following. The National Action Council (successor to the … of Economic Advancement’ announced…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… the sons of the royal bloodline (Chief and King) came of age and underwent an initiation ceremony, he would acquire … “ Gaika was a young man at this time…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… girls came a further little slave girl, only five years of age. This girl was called ‘Kleine Eva’. She had been sent to … in 1716. Angela died in 1720, at…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… March 1943 The Indian Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi passes the Indian Reciprocity Act which aimed to … 30 June 1946 in hospital. Speaking at a…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… over to the Africans. (1) The duality of the old and the new, traditional and technological, western and African, were … artistic heritage of Africa. To…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Bill proposed to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White men had to meet … bit smaller today, but I am glad to say we…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… This rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand …
ArticleProvincial histories
… country was organised into nine provinces as part of its new shape as a democracy. The different provinces each have …
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the age of 13, and won four consecutive South African National …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… connection between the River Snake and the coming-of-age ceremonies of the young Nama girls of the region. … New Dictionary of South African Names by Peter E…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… Happy Joyce Mashamba passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… in 1940 and on 21 November 1942, he died in Pretoria, at age of 76. …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… She excelled in both academics and in athletics. At the age of 13 she became the swim team captain at school and this …
EventEarly jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
… been strung together as a necklace. The discovery of Stone Age beads in South Africa supports the theory that traits … [Accessed: 16 April 2014]|Giliomee et…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… was established in 1968, in which all Coloureds over the age of 21 were compelled to vote for their own …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer … the Tripartite Alliance and the Shock of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… despair. FOUNTAIN OF INSPIRATION As we advance towards the new, we carry with us the great pride that millions of our … From the very beginning of the…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first with … hundred persons; it is out of repair, and…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… i-Afrika (‘Lord Bless Africa’) as its anthem and a new flag, proposed by Thomas Levi Mvabaza , with “black for … James La Guma and Nikolai Bukharin, in…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… continent began to come apart. This was the result of a new political climate, the rise of nationalism and the waging … independence campaigns in various…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… Indians came to South Africa mainly as traders alert to new opportunities abroad. These 'free Indians' came at their … Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, arrived in…
Mission Stations - N-S
… see GEORGENHOLTZ , Transvaal NEU HALLE , also spelt NEW HALLE , Transvaal: Bn 1873 NEW AMALFI , Mount Currie, Cape: No data available NEWCASTLE , Natal: SPG;…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… or PCP) in young gay men are reported in California and New York(later found to be HIV/Aids). At this stage doctors … In Uganda, doctors were seeing the…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… any one action or on any one day. Hence the title of the new book “dare not linger” refers to reaching a particular … Hence, he writes, in Long Walk to…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… In his place, there was Johannes Mavuso, complete with a new, authentic identity number. This made it possible for …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… for 30 minutes on 1 February 1982. Hs death precipitated a new urgency in talks about union unity. April 1982 saw … time in Wilgespruit. The summit resolved…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… names that accompany each indenture entry (with name, age, sex, caste, height, place names etc). The indenture …