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EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
… history of the Olympic Games. In the process Bikila set a new world record at 2:16:2. Explaining later why he ran …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… subsistence rations and slave wages. In articles in New Age the brutality of this system was exposed in 1947, …
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… government by Mahatma Gandhi made at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, India, the previous day. He had asked the …
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… and to reopen their case in order for the courts to hear new evidence, which could have an effect on the outcome of …
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… media targeted by the government were: The Weekly Mail The New Nation "South" in Cape Town Umafrika Capital Radio …
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… was negotiated with the Chamber of Mines outlining new working conditions and wage increases for mineworkers. …
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… as the 'Old' Somerset Hospital. Bailey went on to run the 'New' Somerset Hospital near the Waterfront until he retired … of Southern Africa , Cape Town:…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… This request was rejected by the United Nations (UN), the new international body which was formed after World War 2. …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… prime minister, but many of his followers voted for the new party under General J.B.M. Hertzog. …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… the 'Devil's Woods'. During the commemoration ceremony, a new South African coat of arms was unveiled at the South …
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… the position of Afrikaans for after the war culminated; a new upsurge emerged to establish Afrikaans as an official … Dutch became an official language…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… us, among others, should fall the obligation to infuse a new meaning into the glorious example which was set by Simon … toward the august temple of Liberty…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. African had mined gold hundreds of … no longer passed South Africa on their to…
South African and World leaders
… elected President. He was only president for 5 years, but guided the country's change to a non-racial and … Africa, AIDS is inspiring social responsibility…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… remaining Black Sash women were better organized under the new established aim of the organisation, in which they turned … fact the arrests of female African…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… quarters of 2021 and 2022, around one and a half million new jobs were created in our economy. The Presidential … Through the Just Energy Transition…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… sectoral determination specifically for farm workers. The new sectoral determination was formulated in the Government … was organised predominantly by women…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… regions were worried about the implications that this new Bantustan would mean for them. Many feared that they … Holomisa of the AmaHegebe tribe. Holomisa…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new way of representing difference that does not entail the … a language of politics and society with…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… by the ANC. Especially active in the NIC were a new generation of young activists who had cut their teeth on … on the direction and content of anti…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… in the next decade or two. Currently it looks like the New South Africa is heading for failure. If fail it does, the … ANC, so keen were they to ingratiate…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… development because factories were to provide many new jobs for unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the years … pass-bearer also had his wages written on…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… autonomous commonwealth, and the following year a new constitution was written and the Republic of Tanganyika … to economic problems and widespread…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… autonomous commonwealth, and the following year a new constitution was written and the Republic of Tanganyika … to economic problems and widespread…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… dangers, its pleasures and its profits, helped to create a new working class culture, especially at weekends. Shebeens … be given by the look-out. Bottles…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… measures to extend testing and counselling facilities. New Legislation The Bill of Rights is not the only instrument … from exploitation in child pornography…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Capital punishment was abolished thirty years later by the new democratic South African government. Fatima was a … rally did not take place because the…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape Colony, visited the new Republic of the Orange Free State in October 1855 and … formed part of athletics and as…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… flat-topped mountain surrounded by a fertile plain for his new capital. Because they arrived there at night, it was … defeats, both Harry Smith and Warden…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… was £46,000 out of £420,000 and in the Orange Free State £5.000 out of £73,000 in the Cape, and injustice in the North, … the training of Coloured teachers" …