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ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… were mandated to investigate the establishment of: The new constitution The setting up of the interim government The … Group 2, which was tasked with the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… opposition, the NIC was revived, and within a month the new committee established 29 branches all over Natal and … September, The victory of Frelimo in…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… was almost compulsory to stay up throughout the night from New Years Eve until the next day to see the nag troepe … while the truck stands and wait for you ,…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Kesur Kapitan. 1925 Champion arrives in Durban as the new Natal Provincial Secretary and Durban Branch Chairman of … in South African sport and has already…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… shifted his politics from vague liberalism to libertarian New Left Marxism, incorporating existential ideas of freedom … Freire and Ivan Illich, as well as…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… up the breakdown of the old, land-based economy. The new industry expanded rapidly — it moved from outcrop to … in detail in Gold and Workers As the city…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… be addressed in t he proposed constitutional amendments. A new constitutional principle will be added on the subject of … have a key role to play in…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… of power and interest that would reveal themselves, with new bids for authority and wealth, into a new era. …
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… country. His critics are fond of saying they are breaking new ground by insisting that he is open to criticism. But … "good guys" defeat the "bad guys". What…
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…
Classroom Quizzes
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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…
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…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Rebellions like the Soyo rebellion became the Kingdom’s new way of supplying slaves [xlix] . During the mid-1600s it … bands of warriors moved vast…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… against South Africa by the General Assembly, with a new programme of action being introduced the following year. … The ANC decided to discuss these problems…
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 …
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 …
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora …
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… in June and in July 1942, Lt.-Gen. B.L. Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2, initiated a …
EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… position of State President. However, his spell in the new office was short-lived. He relinquished the position …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. There he set the new South African record of 1:42:86. However, since then his …