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EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… 40 year-old Dorothy Fisher was given a new heart in 1969 and became the longest surviving patient. …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… overthrew the civilian government, and he was named the new President. His reign was marked by increasing levels of …
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the …
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Coloured people's feelings of being marginalised in the new South Africa, warned against this and said Coloureds must …
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… ID welcomed eighteen municipal councillors, mainly from New National Party (NNP), on the first day of the …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… Summit started at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The Millennium Summit was the biggest ever for …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… relativity theory revolutionized scientific thought with new conceptions of time, space, mass, motion, and …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… of whom was named Maria. Source: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… and in 1970 it took ownership of a prestigious new head office building at 78 Fox Street. The bank has grown … ,[online]. Available at www.standardbank.co.za…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… South Africa. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. Undine. New York: 1972. Date is 1929 Woman and Labor. …
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… a government agency. In 1992, Wits University named a new hall of residence for students after him. …
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…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… were not organized they met as Bosses and established a new company. This new company bought all employment opportunities and sold a …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… on the changing nature of the African working class, new constructions of rural-urban linkages and new terrains of struggle for a changing African worker. …
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… Tutankhamun was pharaoh during the Egyptian period of the New Kingdom. Descending from the eighteenth dynasty, he … greater insight into the history of Egypt…
PlaceSahara Desert, in North Africa.
… have been extensively restored, to make them look new!". There are long narrow defiles- (A defile is a narrow … Construction began around 1550 BCE during…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Township, in Durban. It is surrounded by Westville, Kloof, New Germany and Inanda in the distant. Its main road is … work opportunities in the nearby suburbs…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Beck. Photographs: Faces of Hluphekani, Ralph Grunder; New Photographs from the Market Photography Workshop. … Beck Photographs B f l Faces of Hluphekani…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… a twist of fate preventing its interior overhaul, the new owner of this gracious Steenberg Estate manor created … Intent on stamping her own mark of creative…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… NV. Ispat Iscor Limited commenced trading under the new name Mittal Steel South Africa Limited in March 2005. … Mittal Steel South Africa commenced trading…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
… a train to Port Elizabeth and went to stay with her in New Brighton. In those days it was much easier because I … to your room and sleep. But it was not so…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… Action Campaign (TAC) was born. The launch of TAC opened a new chapter in AIDS politics in South Africa. It came at a … and fast would be held on 10 December…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… The City needed the space to provide facilities for the new use and agreed to move the Memorial to another Site. On … and handed over to the City of…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… and was ousted in 1990 by a former ‘witdoeke’ member and new convert to the African National Congress (ANC), Jeffrey … Today, the township of Crossroads…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… Albert, Township Fever and Mama. He was inducted in the New York “Walk of Fame” in 1998, as one of the most revered …
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… event will take place at the University of Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre Building. The lecture seeks to speak into …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… are confident of a total rejection of the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our …