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ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… and some communists. It became a leading voice in the South African struggle against apartheid, especially in the …
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… 15 July 1960, the first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrived in South Africa from America. This aircraft has remained in the … de Havilland Comet and firmly…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action … the drugs were expensive, the social and economic costs to…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… Swart, who eventually became the State President of South Africa. He did not know, of course, and nor did I, that in … almost the whole of the Congress…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… the Mayors here present, Business people from Algeria and South Africa, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of the government and people of…
XIII - The Courts
… the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa In any society where courts exist they tend to play a … the death of Biko, declared the…
PlacePretoria National Zoological Gardens.
… Situated at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is run by the National Research…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1950 Jamiatul Ulama Natal, … aim was "to extend the Digest into all parts of the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new Constitutional Court and was the Chief Justice … education on environmental law…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… 15 March 1940. Mostert’s Mill is the only working windmill South of the Sahara. It is a Cape truncated-cone tower mill, … tall as a testimony to the…
EventTravis Logie, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… was crowned the International Surfing Association’s Open World champion in 2002, at the World Surfing Games held in Durban.[ii] The South African team was…
EventReported arrest of London bomb mastermind, Rashid Aswat
… mastermind of the bomb attacks in London on July 7 hid in South Africa for several weeks before being arrested in Zambia last … of Pakistani or Indian…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… the ills of our terrible past. They are but a platform for South Africans to let their strengths shine through. By our … electricity connections in 1997…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… of the city in tourist publications as an inclusive world of adventuring, beaches, dining, and warm weather. Cape … how this history is being grappled with…
PlaceVryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
… Germany and Portugal. It was later incorporated into the South African Republic, but at the end of the Second Boer War; the Town and its surrounding Area was…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … and hoped for much when General Smuts at the…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… as one of the largest civilian acts of bravery in South Africa. Tin Town The Springfield Flats area, rich in alluvial … in rescuing people.” Inspector…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… accumulation which was related to crisis conditions in the world capitalist economy and South Africa's location Therein: Its reliance on the export of …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… exercise control over virtually all diamond production in South Africa. The company was registered in Kimberley, and was the … Two mines were dug on the…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… PW Botha, has now been installed as President of racist South Africa. He has proceeded to appoint various persons to his … Council, all of which will be…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… PW Botha, has now been installed as President of racist South Africa. He has proceeded to appoint various persons to his … Council, all of which will be…
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
… cricket test match in history. The game was played between South Africa and England in Durban. The game continued until the 14 … South African Cricket team,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… of this country in the name of the working people of South Africa and Namibia, as well as their southern African … the dignity of labour and uniting the…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… was one of the most representative gatherings ever held in South Africa. Like the launching conference of the UDF in August … "The National wealth of our…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… united, democratic, non-racial, non- sexist and prosperous South Africa. Whatever the detail in the policy, the orientation … discourses on the policy…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put … South African History Online and Principia…
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… that SAHO recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no … of his photographic work. Popular…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… realising the need for a broad organisation based inside South Africa, united in their opposition to apartheid. These …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people … this process has happened in many…