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Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White areas. The rioting spread from the …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its new permanent seat, the Gallagher Estate …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… of Versailles in 1919-1920, convened and met for the first time in London. The League's goals included disarmament, …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… revolutionized scientific thought with new conceptions of time, space, mass, motion, and gravitation. The equation …
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… with HIV for twelve years. Cameron was a judge at the time and is one of the first few high profile people to …
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… dates back to 1914 during the First World War. At the time of its occupation by South Africa Namibia was a Germen …
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… mother, emigrated to England. He was 13 years old at the time. Levinsky went on to study medicine and Physical …
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… was previously a French colony controlled at the time by the French Vichy government. The British were afraid …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… would be a puppet controlled by Pretoria. At the time of the coup Transkei was under the leadership of Stella …
EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… honoured Gray with a South African Literary Award for Life Time Achievement. …
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… explored most of the paintings in the media of the time. His diverse genres included landscapes, portraits and …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… made bombs for Sisulu, presumably from dynamite. At the time of the meeting the ANC and other liberation movements …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… who had a studio in Pietermaritzburg at that time. Source: www.molegenealogy.blogspot.co.za Many of the …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… pressure. By November 1985, Mandela felt that it was time to make contact with the government. This, however, was …
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… the Stillbay itself dates to 70 000 years ago. At this time, double pointed bifacial points were probably hafted and …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… resided in the United States for significant periods of time. An exchange of ideas about Africa and peoples of …
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Erasmus was given a broad mandate but a short period of time to conduct the investigation on the scandal. The Erasmus …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… photograph, taken by Sam Nzima , a photographer at the time for The World newspaper in Johannesburg, became an …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa at that time, informed Parliament that Britain had requested that the …
ArticleWhat makes a good or great leader?
… who is the boss of everybody who works there. At the same time, a leader represents the people he leads. For example, …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… of Secretary and Treasurer were scrapped and a full time General Secretary appointed. Elected at the sitting of …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… the 1920s appeared on the surface to be a prosperous time, income was unevenly distributed. The wealthy made large …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… and radically different social order. For the very first time the Congress movement assumed a fully non-racial …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… rule in Kenya and the decision was taken to actively challenge and engage the rebels. Two weeks after Waruhiu’s …
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… in Post-Apartheid South Africa This paper does not challenge the presence of violence in South Africa. The …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… places. I listened, absorbed now, scribbling all the time, to our Congress history being unfolded, a unique record … The extract was to be read into the…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… Swami, thank you so much for allowing us your time. SG: You're welcome, Vino. VR: Thank you very much. … Monday to Sunday he used to work at the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… on the board, so they gave her a few claps and said, 'Next time you take heed of warnings.' By the time the principal returned there were no pupils and the ……
Chapter 3
… of this Fusion of the herrenvolk parties, and at the same time to nail down once and for all the myth of the liberal … the outset of the struggle for…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… instantaneous timeframe. Others look further back to the time when Africa was forced off its own path onto the highway … the rest of the world back further…