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PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… mountain. William had no practical engineering experience before tackling construction of the 228-m tunnel through the … it was repaired. On each occasion it…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
… task. My best guess is that it will be three to four weeks before any firm request will be put to the South African … you are able. I continue to believe, as…
PlaceLake Fundudzi, Thohoyanda
… comfortable on one of the boulders at the lake’s shore, before he starts his account of the sacred Lake Fundudzi. … on three large egg-shaped rocks. He…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… and the leaders of the union had to apply to the Supreme Court for an order to eject them. In 1937, the Mineworkers' … him in the Witwatersrand Local…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… G. Millin says: If no white man had come to South Africa before 1870, the South Africa of today would have been … had England not practised slavery for two…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… law the noble vision that had issued from here 41 years before, in 1955. Determined to ensure that all our people … pleas. Olive Schreiner was born in 1855,…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… that we use one he took in 1957 of a makeshift, “Bantu Court” in Mathubathuba. If ever there was a photograph which …
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… my right to speak”. An extract from Cesar van Madagascar's court testimony. The underlined words say "mijn recht van …
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… the mediation of information disclosure disputes. The High court will hear appeals regarding the interpretation of the …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… to Pollsmoor prison and then Victor Verster prison before he was released in 1990. Mandela was elected president …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… As he was on the point of going to London to plead a case before the Privy Council, he requested permission and was …
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… The position of Indians in South Africa was brought before the General Assembly of the United Nations, both by …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) before he was expelled from the organisation during the …
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… a Saturday night and was completed the next morning just before 6 a.m. when the new heart in the chest of Louis …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… stations reacted by requesting the ISU to report to them before it carried out its operations and after it had …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… Bay" was visited occasionally by sealers and whalers before being established as a commercial port. In 1506, the …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… of smoke and gas until they found the eighteenth man just before dawn, fatally injured. Another corpse was found later, …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… Congress, of whose armed wing Mr Mdluli was the commander before joining the NIA, as well as Mdluli’s own family, …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… hut and dog taxes. After the Second Anglo-Boer War and before the unification of South Africa mining companies …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… guns. Lobengula fled after the defeat at Bembesi but not before deciding to burn his capital Bulawayo to the ground …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… crises situations were usually able to defuse tensions before they escalated. The Langa township at Uitenhage is not …
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… time has come for apartheid to go? Have we not heard this before? P.W. Botha promised "power-sharing", and now he is … out having orchestrated…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… time has come for apartheid to go? Have we not heard this before? P.W. Botha promised "power-sharing", and now he is … out having orchestrated…
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… This Act confirms the position that was believed to obtain before the Searle judgment. Prior to that judgment, we had … such appointments since these…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… company of his lawyer. He was detained and later brought before the magistrate at Durban on three occasions on a … questions on an incident which had…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… marched and chanted slogans towards the magistrates court where their comrades were being tried. When the police attempted to keep them off the steps of the…
EventSouth African Soccer legend Lucas Radebe was born
… known started his football career at ICL Birds before he was recruited to Kaizer Chiefs. In 1994 Lucas moved …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… of the New Deal. [14] Larger companies and the Supreme Court also felt that some of the reform initiatives were …
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… age of sixteen and served as an officer for eight years, before leaving to work for a private security firm. In … alcohol is always used,” Gerber, who…
ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… bring the government and its supporters to their senses before it is too late, so that both the government and its policies can be changed before matters…