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EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… Speech in Durban. Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Pik Botha, had told the world to expect a radical …
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
… by the Reserve Bank. The central bank introduced at that time, a series of new R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 notes. The …
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… and Malaria. Ironically South Africa was still, at the time, lagging behind other African countries and the rest of …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Afrikaans and his prose works in English. He divides his time currently between Europe, South Africa and the USA. …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… Gandhi and General Smuts, the Colonial Secretary at the time. It was agreed that Indians would register voluntarily …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a remarkable influence on the …
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the African National Congress were required to …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… who suggested that the vaccine might be ready in two years time. The disease has caused a lot of damage in South Africa …
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… I agree with your views on honour and respect. At the same time I do not quite accept your paragraphs 2 and 3. They …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in the country were going to the polls to vote …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… first white person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. Aggett was …
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… History was made in Western Africa when, for the first time, a woman, Ms Ruth Sando Perry, was unanimously elected …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… a member of the African National Congress (ANC) used his time oversees to represent the organization. He became a …
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… are very interesting and you will enjoy taking your time in the Museum, taking in this History and learning about …
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… England, he returned to South Africa in 1918, during the time of the devastating influenza epidemic and opened his … Convention. His key contribution to the…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an investigative journalist … of Almond Nofomela and Dirk Coetzee and for…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… in Marshall Square, the latter day Gandhi Square. At the time of Babla's death I don't think John Vorster Square … and advise. Your site is terrific - we use…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… ideas about race as developed by social scientists at that time. They would take some of these natives, sometimes … inferiors, while it treated whites as…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… he is interviewed for television for the first, and last time for nearly thirty years, and he announced that the ANC … his first visit to prison and saw his…
Liberation organisations
… size and sophistication over a relatively short period of time. Employment practices and wider political trends were … granted some freedom to organise…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… the Middle East in 1917 for a few weeks' leave, the first time he had been home for over three years. Then he was off … to France and Belgium until the end…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… potentially explosive matter for us. Going back a bit in time: Hillary Kuny told me she wanted to submit a memorandum … from Johannesburg to Pretoria for…
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… workers was really marvellous. They not only gave their time, but those that were able came forward with their … laid-out roads, the journey to the Buttery…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… is possible to be all of these and much more. At the same time being a person of a particular race or class also … important exchange of human values over a…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… wages earned by men in the manufacturing industry at the time. Despite these "high" earnings, brewing beer was a … flood of conscience swept over me. They…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… be detained only for the shortest appropriate period of time, and has the right to be - kept separately from detained … meet the right. The programme in…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… bootstrings. He is alienated”¦He is made to live all the time concerned with matters of existence, concerned with … and incapable of intellectual production…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… CWP and Head of State, Marien N'Gouabi. This is the first time that the South African Communist Party has been invited … leader that the Indian community has…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… founded by King Solomon, the King of the Zulus, but at the time it was Inkatha. Then Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi revived the … against him so I joined the…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… in which to liberate South West and in that 11 months' time they say there will be a different president every … I want to agree most heartily with him, but…