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ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic transformation in southern Africa…
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
… rotor for the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant from Antwerp in 2006. The Drakensberg changed course while sailing on the … ship sported a hand-painted banner…
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… of President Jacob Zuma. At some point, possibly in 2006, the then Scorpions, the Directorate of Special …
PlaceKalahari Desert
… during the Pleistocene Epoch Age (about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago). They have been fixed in place since then, …
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… Government declared a state of emergency, arrested over 18 000 people and passing a law that made it illegal for …
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
The History of the Mount Nelson Hotel is intertwined with the early History of the Cape. The estate on which the Hotel is built was named: 'The Garden of van…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… [lii] Around two decades after this, on September 27, 2006, Themba was awarded The Order of Ikhamanga [liii] in … Theatre, Tshwane, Gauteng Province, South…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… estate, Hilton caters for 555 boys from Grade 8 to Grade 12. The College faces Northwards across the wide sweep of the …
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
… lighthouses along the Wild Coast. The lantern sits atop a 12-metre lattice tower and is visible for 24 sea miles. It is …
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… Solomon Sachs In terms of the provisions of sub-section (12) of Section One of Act No. 27 of 1914 as amended by … was dismissed. (E. S. Sachs v. 0. Pirow, K…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… and the Labour Party, addressed the assembled crowd. At 11 a.m. I came forward to speak. Scarcely ten minutes later, …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… had begun to open up. By 1925, for example, about 12% of women of all racial groups had taken jobs in the …
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
… the treatment of Mr. Biko. Mr. Biko was detained on 18 August 1977, whilst in good health. He did 26 days later. … thought the injuries to the brain were…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift", African Arts, vol. 11, 1977 - 78, pp. 38 - 42. 2. ibid. 3. Rorke's Drift, … University of Zululand. 4. W. Battiss,…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a toilet. A set of 11 detached cottages were built which had three bedrooms, a … residents want to change this, one…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… few pitiful rights they had in the Cape were ignored. On 12 October 1908, exactly nine years after the outbreak of the … Winston Churchill. They had…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… Skweyiya, convened in South Africa for the first time on 11 June 1990. 44 This committee was assigned to carry out … in a meeting between government and…
ArchiveThe Original Chris Hani Memorandum
… middle class in our revolutionary organisation and in M.K. 11. A strange and alarming trend is developing whereby secret … to break the physical and moral…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… Act , yet its activities and influence within the extra-parliamentary opposition circles in South Africa … the Federation of South African Women in the 1950s…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… was howling down the Firth at an estimated 75 mph (Force 11 on the Beaufort scale) when the girders and their …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… 'Self-determination of the African peoples' was adopted by 11 votes to 4. Next a new PARTY CONSTITUTION was adopted, …
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… 1 July 1845, on a calm, sunny day, William and his nephew, 11-year-old Johnny Fairbarn,crossed the Gamtoos River using a … ts/Water%20Wheel/Articles/2009…
Address at the Opening of the Second Session of the South African-Algerian Bi-National Commission, 17 October 2001
Your Excellency, President Bouteflika, Your Excellencies, Ministers and Ambassadors, The Business Delegations from Algeria and South Africa, Distinguished…
PlaceWorcester, Western Cape
… Hex River Mountain range, 120 km North of Cape Town. Only 11 hectares are cultivated and the remaining 143 hectares, …
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… in South Africa’s transition to democracy. On February 11, 1990 mere hours after his release from prison, Nelson …
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… was later amended to the Black Administration Act. Section 11 provided the first account of a universal recognition of … not to common law, but to the…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… in Alexandra, Sophiatown, Orlando East and Benoni, leaving 18 dead”. ( Maylam, P, 1986, pp.184-5) . Africanists within … had one boycott. In East London…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… programmes drawn up, the ANC only adopted it more than 12 months after. In the above statement, Gomas was clearly … although his Memoirs-Diary makes…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… in Birla House. I was then between the ages of 10 and 12, and would often go to the prayer meeting along with the … endorsed for the first time took place in…