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EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a …
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… at the time, toppled the government just hours before a new leader was to be chosen. Two days later, he was …
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government’s announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… The State President, P.W. Botha responded by issuing a new Proclamation, under a different law, once again placing …
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… stories with a strong allegiance to Yoruba folklore, New Ageism,spiritual realism, magical realism, visionary …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… and families were able to supply most of their own needs. New needs in the towns In the towns, people’s lives were … Large numbers of people lived close…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… were the old religious and communal divisions underlying a new class division. Internally disrupted by these … still divided on personal rivalry. The…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… five years. I saw the recently released “ Star Wars IV ; A New Hope” for the first time that Christmas and the mythical … lives, ever since I could remember…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… of unbridled plunder by foreigners and the opening of a new chapter of national consciousness among the oppressed … came together to unite against oppression…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… not exclusive privilege. That we gather at the dawn of the new millennium, is a reminder of the fact that, valiant … to define its role and to assert the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… very best in the competition. May this Heritage Day herald new beginnings for the homeless not only to succeed in the … refreshment station, which began the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… took over the Cape in 1806, Afrikaners had to live under a new political dispensation. The British sought to replace … Kruger and some in the OFS, and wanted…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… section of the Old Market and began establishing their new home and performed their first formal production on the … such as theatre, dance and music. It has…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… of our people. Our youth have raised this struggle to new heights. They have enriched our revolution. The struggle … common objective of a non-racial…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… to testify through literature defined the vision for a new society and contributed to the resilient spirit among the … and impart critical thinking and…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… bridges in South Africa, built in 1892. Construction of a new double-laned road bridge to replace the old bridge was … in 1906 and crossed the river by the…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… letter from Arne Swabeck to Com Kahn with reference to the New Militant and New International. Com Kahn reported on the Spartacus Club in …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… In his role as president of South Africa, Botha proposed a new constitution, in which two houses of Parliament would be … "Crossing the Rubicon" speech. It…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… . London, Zed, 1991. Bundy, Colin. Remaking the Past: New Perspectives on South African History . Cape Town, UCT … Ravan, 1983. Pampallis, John. Foundations…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… back then to another publication of the same period from New Era, Vol. 4. No. 2. August 1989, in an editorial titled … articulated: "Our country stand on the…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… as well. The displaced people were transported to a new site called Vergelegen. Government trucks carried their … and Durban, struggled to locate their…
PlaceMpumalanga
… ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part … by tsetse flies, his business was ruined…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… uttered inspiring words at Columbia University in New York, which are surely relevant to our celebrations … Africa. Yes, the regeneration of Africa belongs…
Aberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate
… when the Railway reached the Farm in 1902, the new Orange River Colony Administration preferred Aberfeldy. …
PlaceMaitland Road
… local Inn, but this was abolished in about 1860, when the new village of Bellville was established on a site nearby. … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceKwaNdebele
… granted self-government in 1984 and was intended to be the new home for the Transvaal Ndebele people. It was established …
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… Memorial and St. George’s botanical gardens. It is about 5 minute quick drive to the beach. For the sporting … cricket stadium, and about a 10 minute drive…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new Roodepoort-Maraisburg municipality. It was extended in …
EventTony Leon is born
… Party until it merged into Democratic Alliance with the New National Party. After the merger Tony Leon was elected …
EventThe South African cricket team beats England for the first time on English soil
… soil came in the Second Test at Lord's in 1935, taking the 5 test series 1 - 0 with a victory by 157 runs thanks to … quickfire 90. The match was one of the…
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… pupils be instructed equally in English and Afrikaans. New regulations were issued, leaving the choice of the medium …