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BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Thandray took it upon himself to develop the awareness of his students about conditions in South Africa. Her father …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… became involved with local trade unions. Concerned over his home country’s political situation, Weinberg left Latvia … in Cape Town, South Africa on 9…
ArticleTuberculosis
… disease [3] . In South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death, and has been for the past two decades [2] . From 1997, … causing a general state of illness,…
Article2016 in Review
… 8 January ANC statement. Responses are mixed with all but his most enthusiastic supporters unenthused. - 11th: Student … pastor who began the #ThisFlag…
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… its first president. He governed CÁ´te d’Ivoire until his death in 1993. Newly independent states such as CÁ´te …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… recruited straight to the SACP Central Committee, although his name never featured on the membership list. This is … were sceptical of the ANC’s ties with…
PlaceGreyton, Western Province
… Koekson become from this bartering that he eventually took his people to live in the Boesmanskloof, where he built them … Theunissen, who built a homestead …
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… Winston Churchill who was captured as a war correspondent. His successful escape from the building added a colourful … representative peer at Westminster,…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… of people in the Wesleyan Church who were supposed to be his fellow Christians. He was soon followed by James Mata … to lead our people with distinction…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
… in the Groblersdal District on 22 March 1932. He received his education in various mission schools in Northrern … ultimately baptized in the Lutheran church…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… Johannesburg district committee. Madiba returned often to his home area.Following the passager of Prime Minister …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 years … to life imprisonment where they remain to…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 … to life imprisonment where they remain to this…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… leader of the Brakpan commando, was sentenced to death, but he was later reprieved. Four of the leaders were condemned to death and went to the gallows…
ArticleThe Western Front
… paranoia, anxiety, paralysis, tremors, insomnia. The death toll amongst the wounded was very high because antibiotics were not in use yet. A major cause of…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… aim of the German army was to “bleed” the French army to death by capturing Verdun. The Germans launched six … November 19. On the first day, the British…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development …
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… some human advancement. That is the context in which his name will live in history, beyond the new millennium. … experience. There are those who knew him in…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… The farm Welgelegen was established by Bothma. After his death the farm changed hands a number of times until 1756, … property of Jacob van Reenen. It is…
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… situation just behind Table Mountain . He named his Farm: 'Groot Constantia' , (a name derived from Latin … African Artists, work! The land was sub-divided…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… funeral accorded to a private citizen of India since the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948. The three hour state … is more blessed to give than to receive,…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… Nations and which has as its primary aim the punishment by death of people who are among South Africa`s most outstanding … and an accomplished economist who…
Address at the Opening of the 24th General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, 1 December 2003
… our continent leave behind a haunting legacy not only of death but of war veterans who need the closest attention and … because of the horrendous massacres…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… manifested in a rapid and marked decline in the political death-toll in the months that followed. Also, as expected, no …
Introduction
… manifested in a rapid and marked decline in the political death-toll in the months that followed . Also, as expected, …
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… more cattle than anyone else, accumulating them through death dues, court fines, forfeits, tribute, raids and the … wives as tribute, and he usually had more…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… proficiency and sabotage operations. Subsequent to his release from prison, Lang began sourcing financial … the operation was cancelled after Eddie Daniels…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… leader against the regime, George inevitably suffered his share of persecution. From 1956 to 1958 he was one of the … for sabotage, he was imprisoned on…
Quotes by Steve Biko
… by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the … dead, and when you are dead, you can't care…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie … for being a police informer, a charge that…