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EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… his innocence, claiming to have never used drugs. *Note: Sources vary as to the exact distance of the marathon. They …
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… Paradise Valley Waterworks , Edwardian furniture and other sources of interest! Anthropology is also a central theme, …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… increasingly infringed on the freedom of the individual. Sources: 1. Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a …
EventSt James Church massacre
… later met and publicly reconciled with the APLA attackers. sources: St James Church Massacre. Website: en.wikipedia.org …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October 1996. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1995). Keesing's Records of World …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… Smuts was forced to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi. Sources: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… colonial government imposed a dog tax on the Bondelswarts, sources are unclear as to whether it was the South African or …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… to Portugal and interred at St Jeronimos in 1880. *Some sources give this date as the 7 November 1497. …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… said, consumers of history must be aware that most of the sources left for historians to construct narratives of … Society ↵ There is limited availability of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… 124 companies organized into nine "groups" based on their sources of financing.African migrant labour--were first …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… birthdate and birthplace are not documented in available sources, she was 60 years old at the time of her death in … birthdate and birthplace are not…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… (SWAPO) and the Namibian struggle for independence. Sources: Books: Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds) (1993). …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… against apartheid in South Africa. *Please note that some sources are claiming that he was born in 1927* …
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… and was hanged on Execution Dock in London in 1701. Some sources state that Kidd's notoriety was considered to have …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… part of the said security forces. Dates differ in various sources. …
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… political career and now I hand it over to a young man." Sources: Adapted from Victor, R. (2003). Sowetan, 18 June, …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… en route. Trichardt was 55 years old when he died. Note*: Sources differ on the date that the voortrekkers reached the …
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… countries and killed hundreds of thousands of people (sources vary between 200 000 and 300 000 casualties as a …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… to 13 years in prison, but still proclaims his innocence. Sources: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… other archives in South Africa and Zambia, and oral sources, the book, which is also informed by participant …
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… Dates concerning the approval vary slightly in different sources, i.e. it is given as 24 June in Illustrated History …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… industrial sectors which preferred to locate their labour sources close to the harbour and the inner city area. These …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… large amounts of writing, published in a diversity of sources outside South Africa, through banning and relative …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Childhood in the Eastern CapeNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the paramount…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… based on contributions from a variety of intelligence sources. The account alleged that these SADF members were …
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… These sentence was later commuted to long prison terms. Sources: McNeil, D.G. "Zambia Says a Coup Is Over In 3 Hours, …
PlaceGhana
… early as 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Oral history and other sources suggest that the ancestors of some of Ghana's … cassava. By the beginning of the 16th…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… war. However, even the 10 January date is disputed as many sources say that the ultimatum actually expired on the 11 …
PlaceThe Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum
… analyse and conceptualise complex primary and secondary sources into coherent narratives; to confidently and clearly …