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EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… Omar was the first Minister of Justice of the new South Africa and was later appointed Minister of …
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in New York, United States of America, by the Al-Qaeda terrorist … From BBC ,[Online],Available at:…
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… 1998, pleaded not guilty to charges pressed against him in New York. Mohamed was traced to Cape Town, South Africa, by …
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Day, in the United States Veterans Day, while France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries call it …
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… in her honour. References: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… The elections resulted in the establishment of the new Government of National Unity (GNU) led by the African …
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… editor of the The Guardian and has taken the newspaper to new heights over the years. He is also a member of the GNM …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party won twenty seats in the new Assembly, all in his tribal homeland of Matabeleland. … were alleged to be part of a ZAPU-led…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… essays for which he is acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of seeing that challenged the …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… year ban expired in 1964, immediately he was served with a new and stricter order. …
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
… to arrive at the point where we would have created a new South African society founded on the principles and … prosperity was recognised even upon the…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma, at the Funeral Service of Advocate Mvuseni Edward Ngubane, at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 18 May 2012
… legal system and the transition from apartheid into the new dispensation. It is therefore not surprising that he was … of our country. Therefore as we…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
… apartheid vision was made unworkable. Democracy brought new possibilities for every institution. Every sector of … one of the key institutions in support of…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… or rebirth are noticeable on the far-off horizon. A new spirit of African nationalism, or Africanism, is … is a fantastic dream which has no foundation in…
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… South Africa 1996 (4) SA 744 (CC) the Court ruled that a new constitutional text adopted by the Constitutional … Constitution. The Court identified the…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… 28 June 1864. This Structure was in use until 1899 when a new Church, also called St Thomas, was Built on Musgrave … and as a result, the remainder had to be…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… Africans to meet in Bloemfontein in January 1912 to form a new national organization, At the meeting itself, he was the … returned to South Africa soon after…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… secretly with the ANC in 1985, but it was only on 5 July 1989 that Mandela eventually met the president at … in September FW de Klerk became president…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Makeba and Whoopi Goldberg as the leading actors. The new projects of commemorating and memorialising the June 16 …
PlaceHottentots Holland Mountains Nature Reserve
… for challenging hikes, pulse-racing kloofing and the new Cape Canopy Tour Zipline Adventure . The reserve is open … for challenging hikes, pulse-racing…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world's first human heart transplant
… which pushed the boundaries of science into the dawn of a new medical epoch took place inside Charles Saint Theatre at … was completed the next morning just…
PlaceSomerset Hospital, Cape Town
… gave land for the construction. The cornerstone for the new Hospital was laid on 18 August 1859 by the Cape Governor … centre was established there in 2005…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… media outlets as mouthpieces to reach the masses. [5] In 1950, the apartheid government recognized the rising … the rest of the newly rejuvenated SACP found…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… heritage of this country. We are already inculcating a new national identity through promoting national symbols such … economic climate. This week the IMF…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… Informed by this responsibility, in 2010 we launched the New Growth Path framework and identified our job drivers as … the community sector, to work with us…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… heritage of this country. We are already inculcating a new national identity through promoting national symbols such … economic climate. This week the IMF…
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… for the country. After only 12 weeks in power, the new government was deposed in a coup which led to Lumumba’s …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… and consisted mainly of women. On 29 August 1987 FEDSAW‘s new branch was launched in the Western Cape. Leading women in …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission’s report is tabled in parliament
… itself from the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1964, The New York Times reported that the South African Press … The New York Times , (1964), ‘SOUTH AFRICANS…
EventFidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
… popular support and managed to register some victories. On New Year's Day 1959 the 26 July Army finally forced Batista …