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PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… History 2 April 1983 Saul Vusumzi Mkhize (47) is shot to death by a white policeman, Constable Johannes Nienaber. The … school in the then Eastern Transvaal …
PlaceGoedverwacht, West Coast of Cape Town
… When the emancipation of the slaves was in sight, he asked his slave,' Maniesa', (originally from Bengal, India ), and … to stay on the farm with him and…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… in 1885, for their support of King Dinuzulu who succeeded his father Chief Cetshwayo as King of the Zulu nation in 1884, upon his death. The Town was founded…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… petty criminals” that were targeted. They announced the death toll at 61 but doctors reported it at 128. Doctors also … pressures on the TMC to some degree…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… built up a booming wine export business. After starting his life in South Africa as a butcher boy in what is now the Cape Town CBD, he later opened his very…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… when Frederik Bezidenhout was reported to have mistreated his Khoikhoi labourers, he was summoned to a magistrate’s … and a warrant of arrest was issued…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu … Inkatha Freedom Party support bases. In…
The French Revolution
… the French Republic, Liberty, Equality andBrotherhood – or death. Source: unknown The peasants and the urban workers … King Louis': The first “Louis” was…
South African and World leaders
… he was thrown in jail more than once. He spent 27 years of his life in jail, most of which were on Robben Island. … People held protest marches, made posters…
Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
… I ask you all to rise for a moment's silence in tribute to his memory. Even as we do so, let us also remember those who … the problems that plague the rural…
ArchiveReview since last Conference
… to SACC regarding the review of the conference about the death of Steve Biko. Also asking the authority to institute the judicial inquiry into Steve's death…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South African liberation movements derives primarily from his two crowning achievements: President of the African … elected Zulu chief) engaged the world of…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… for ivory and, presumably, to further investigate his find. This time, Kruger was accompanied by a party of … of Potchefstroom stands today. All but Erasmus…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… of the Sharpeville Massacre. The reason given for his expulsion was that he ‘incited students to be involved in … activities’. On 24 September 1985 Ndondo…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… proficiency and sabotage operations. Subsequent to his release from prison, Lang began sourcing financial … the operation was cancelled after Eddie Daniels…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… of the peace process being derailed. We met De Klerk and his delegation and presented to him a document in which we frankly criticised him personally and…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… and traditions. Historian Basil Davidson, writing in his book, African Civilisation Revisited says that: "When our … our common world, especially the…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… to erode' its independence. In its present form, on his meticulous analysis, the Bill does exactly that. But he … newly-established Constitutional Court, and…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… Inkosi Sigweje the previous leader, related the history of his people and their struggle to find land security in an … to the Umsundusi River to a place…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… Vogel in 1697 but it was almost immediately transferred to his youngest son, Frans van der Stel, on extremely favourable … Dwelling, on Stellenberg with her…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… Trial (October 1963) after which Mandela and seven of his colleagues were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben … and South African Communist Party banned…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… of BCP, which he joined in August 1972 after quitting his medical studies at the University of Natal. He described … being who finds it very difficult to…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Mayor Jacob Kuzwayo Dlamini, who was beaten and burnt to death by an angry mob on 3 September 1984. They faced … arrested, tried and sentenced. They spent…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… King Louis XIV reigned from 1643 to 1713. [4] After his death, his great-grandson, King Louis XV became king at the age of …
EventVergelegen Wine Estate Owner Samuel Kerr Dies
… properties since 1899 before acquiring Vergelegen. His wife and eight children lived with him in the Old … modernizing the estate. When mining magnate Sir…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… Central Prison in Durban by deliberately standing with his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police … without trial in the prison. The…
Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… Project: Phakamile Mabija Margaret Philpott Project: The Death of Tshifhiwa Muofhe Christopher Washington Project: …
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… between Africa and the West. A giant literary figure in his own right — strictly speaking, Senghor who started the … literary movement in 1920’s is Bâ’s…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… by the Africans, for the Africans, with everybody who owes his only loyalty to Afrika and who is prepared to accept the … 1969, he was placed under house…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… deregistered from the institution and could not complete his Bachelor of Science honours degree. The son of Nzimeni and Julia, Tambo dedicated his entire…