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EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… On 11 March 1960, for the first time in the history of South Africa, the Republican Referendum Bill was … pg 1.|SAHO, Pieter Willem Botha , from South…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… in 1990. No other runner has achieved this record in the history of the Comrades Marathon race. Fordyce has completed …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… demand for a negotiated settlement from South African History Online available at www.sahistory.org.za Wallis, F. …
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… of the UDF in the Western Cape. Source: South African History Online. website: www.sahistory.org.za …
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… famine. The 1984 famine was one of the worst in Ethiopian history. In 2002 humanitarian agencies announced that …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… 1998 described him as a policeman "who already had a long history of human rights violations as chief interrogator of …
EventDynamite explosion in Braamfontein
… One of the worst explosions in the history of South Africa occurred at Braamfontein station, …
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… nuclear weapons by the South Africa government. The history of nuclear energy in the country can be traced to …
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. History repeated itself when she was re-elected in November …
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history of the movement in Swaziland. A number of events, … (Accessed: 24 October 2012)| South…
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… In the second worst bus accident in South African history, a double decker school bus with seventy-six learners …
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… and Nokwe was conducted at a very difficult time in the history of the ANC as it was banned along with other … www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 12 January…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior …
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… between the Khoisan , Xhosa , and European settlers . Its history is intertwined with the broader history of the region, including its Xhosa heritage and its…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… important to have a foreign policy that is aligned to the history of our struggle. We must also have leadership that … and recently Libya. We have not even…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 89 … railway workers, workers in the…
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical 'TIME' appeared on news stands
… On this day in history, the first issue of the weekly periodical TIME … languages. It is one of the most popular magazines in history, with readership…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… become part of the people`s political life, experience and history: the embodiment of their deepest belief in the … Congress, born of the people, a creation…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… knew very little about Africa at this stage in European history but were always very curious about Africa. There were … da Vinci is one of the most famous…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… of East and West African editions of the magazine. A brief history of ‘Drum’ 'In the teeming Negro and coloured … 'We Defy', in the August 1952 issue…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… were politically more advanced than their leaders. The history of the ANC, the PAC alleged, was studded with … G. (1977). From Protest to Challenge: A…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical … of this tax led to the Bambatha…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… 14 Photographs have an intimate relationship with history. Walter Benjamin wrote, “photographs become standard … 15 Photography in many ways is the first…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… constraints. We have also looked at how they respond to service delivery protests. There have been many successes in … audits, expenditure on municipal…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… it is necessary to take a brief journey back into our history, into some of the many monumental and epoch-making … This is the spirit with which we have to…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… London group carried out all the executive functions to service the publications: they did the typesetting, layout, …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… After Mgijima calls upon all his followers at a church service, 3000 Israelites from all over South Africa gather in …
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… memories, http://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold-cup-history-golden-memores/ (27 July 2013). ↵ … memories, https://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold…
PlaceZonderwater
… Museum Curator, Emilio Coccia, to whom every piece of history in the museum was personnel because, in 1970 he left … https://www.countrylife.co.za/history-2…
Beyond the barricades: the 1985 schools boycott and the vicissitudes of the Athlone Students Action Committee(ASAC)
… of the requirements for the degree of BA Honours in History at the University of Cape Town. This dissertation …