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ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… on 24 June, South Africa wins the tournament, defeating New Zealand 15-12. Following South Africa's victory, Nelson … can you see in the box? Do you think…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… was run like a political party. Membership of the new structure within NUSAS was confined to White students. It … Turner from the Sorbonne in late 1967, that…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… the Junction Avenue Theatre Company activists to make a new play about the workers’ struggle. After three months of … strike takes place during which time…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… anti-Apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncub e died at the age of 80. She was a practicing Roman Catholic nun and was …
EventLalla Hirayama, the Japanese-born South African television personality is born
… was born in Hiratsuka, Japan on 10 February 1988. At the age of six, her family immigrated to South Africa. Lalla is a …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… struggle. Biko was introduced to politics at an early age, when one of his older brothers, Khaya, a student at …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… Although joining the Broederbond himself at the age of 25, and serving as a minister for the Dutch Reformed …
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… Congress (PAC) since 1984 dies in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Mothopeng's death came at the time when the PAC … 77, Dies; Headed South African Movement…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Town (UCT) library. He died on 27 November 1996, at the age of 87. References: Feldberg Leon (1976), South African …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… Both his parents were actors. He started his career at the age of eleven working on Fleet Street selling newspapers at …
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… Soweto Homeakers St. Peter Claver School Sunvalley* The New Church of South Africa UBC (Council Office) Vista …
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… support of other chiefs in the area, refused to accept a new tax that was being implemented by the colonial …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… many characterised as farcical. It was dissolved when a new interim constitution came into effect which abolished …
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… They advised workers to join the GFWBF and later the new unions. The Black Sash from Durban and Pietermaritzburg …
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… Robben Island, including nine children under 18 years of age. I don't need to remind this Committee of the brutal … In the last three years, almost 9,000…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… of question of Indians in South Africa. February , New regulations of South African Railways came into force. … of £3 tax. February 20, Chairman, BIA, wrote…
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… China reports that the pneumonia outbreak is caused by a new strain of coronavirus. The novel virus is named … the virus. China’s daily infection rate…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party interaction. From this era a new breed of female leadership emerged,…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… 1807 Death of Tuan Guru 25 Tuan Guru died at the ripe old age of 95 and lies buried in Tana Baru Cemetry on Signal … areas by the Group Areas Act. At the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… rebellion of 1815 brought home to the Dutch the new terms of citizenship that the British imposed on the … inhabitant of the Cape equal before the law, and…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… was made. “I haven’t taught for so long,” Mbete told The New Age in 2012 before looking at politics as an act of …
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
… consecutively for five times between 1922 and 1927 and set new course records on five occasions! In addition, to Arthur … race in 1951 . He started running…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, New Delhi, India. 1981 4 August, Mandela is awarded the … Students Union names rooms in honour of…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… the end of the century and millennium and the dawn of a new century and millennium. The last decade of the 20th … which, through its own efforts and in the…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… the end of the century and millennium and the dawn of a new century and millennium. The last decade of the 20th … which, through its own efforts and in the…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental … was suggested from Mandela to F.W de…
PlaceBritstown, Northern Cape
… was theirs. The Karoo is renowned for its wealth of Stone Age remains spanning at least half a Million years of human … the last 10 000 years. South Africa's…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… of rock art in Central Africa, ranging from Stone Age paintings to contemporary work from farmers. The symbols … altars, sanctuaries, and Togu-Na meeting…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… japantimes.co.jp Goals and Guiding Principles Thus, the age-old goal of pan-Africanism had not entirely faded as the … trade with the inclusion of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… expansionism. 1680 Commander Simon van der Stel starts a new settlement along the Eerste River on land belonging to … Rheede, decrees that male slaves buy…