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EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… on 31 December 1986. The country was at the height of political conflict and violence that made it hard for most …
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… the end of the year almost 150 people had been killed in political violence, which increased to 600 by September 1985 …
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… from all members of South African society about political crimes, violence and human rights abuses that had …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… the banning orders Luthuli decisively continued with his political activities until his latter days. Additionally … Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (Eds) (1999)…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Act in April 1960, were forced to conduct their political activities underground. …
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… of colonies in South Africa to move towards a non-racial political order, until the qualified non-racial franchise and … In more recent years, the Scottish…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… the Students' Union at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 1983 Park in Hull, Britain is named … city of Bologna, Italy 12 September,…
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology was established on 1 January 2005, when the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon merged. This merger was part of…
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Elandsberg is a Mountain and is located in the Swartland District, near Riebeeck Kasteel, in the Western Cape. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… – to function effectively. A concentration of effort in response to gang violence, coordinated among different …
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other political organisations such as the African National Congress …
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… and Indian population, waged a long battle to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral … with all other South Africans were granted…
PlaceEthiopia
… in a campaign called the; 'red terror'. Thousands of political opponents were killed. Mengistu remained leader … sister–Christabel–she helped found the Women…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… Activity: Social, political and economic structures Roles of men, women, boys …
ArticleThe missionaries
… their education from mission schools. As the socio-political history of the Pondos changed, land became the …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement. There are many varieties of …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… memory and commemoration making of June 16. In the 1990s, political prisoners were released, liberation movements were …
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… Read this paper by Walter S. Zapotoczny titled ‘The Political and Social Consequences of the Black Death, 1348 – …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… Africa the War had led to profound economic, social and political changes. During the War, South Africa experienced a …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… emerge into one. 3100 BC Egypt is consolidated into one political entity under the pharaoh, Narmer, who is the … of the nation’s most powerful pre-modern…
Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality - CAS in partnership with Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Anthropology Panel Discussion
… focus on cultures of democracy, popular politics, and political violence in India and postcolonial Africa. … into Blackness toward a more global field of the…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. He served as a political activist from 1954-1996 and was a Pan-Africanist …
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… Plain, but the facility has housed some prominent political prisoners in the past. Former President Nelson …
EventMafika Gwala born
… of Zululand, he chose to rather devote his time to political activities firstly joining National Union of South …
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… eighties, Magadlela was hardy active in the arts due to political unrest and exploitation of black artists by …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… Isaka Seme died in Johannesburg on 7 June 1951. He was a political activist, journalist, lawyer and a co-founder of …
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… during the transitional period negotiations with other political parties. After the first democratic elections, …
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… the President and the MLSTP became the nations' sole legal political party. Dr Manuel held the position until 1991, when …
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… as a member of Herstigte Nationale Party (HNP) a far-right political party that emerged in 1969, Dr. Albert Hertzog was …
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… Former Minister of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, Stoffel …