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… to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set again in the east and a whirlwind …

… The women and children who arrived with Jan van Riebeeck on board the three ships the Reijger, the Goede Hoop and the Drommedar …

… Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni.   Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki …

… Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni.   Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki …

… The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic Creswell are renamed SAS Job Maseko, SAS Shaka and SAS Adam Kok on …

… The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic Creswell are renamed SAS Job Maseko, SAS Shaka and SAS Adam Kok on …

… Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv …

… Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat), journalist and writer who left SA by means of an exit permit and could never return, is born in …

… Six people die and twenty five are critically injured in a road accident on the R70 between Polokwane and Giyani when the truck …

… Sir John Barrow, author and explorer of the interior of SA, arrives at the Cape and has to start immediately to resolve boundar …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:A cease-fire between 12 p.m. and sunset is called to allow for a rugby match between the British and Boer forc …

… South African Students Organisation: Constitution and standing rules: adopted as revised and amended at the 2nd General Students Council, July 1971, …

… South African Students Organisation: Constitution and standing rules: adopted as revised and amended at the 2nd General Students Council, July 1971, …

… The Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end The Berlin … dubbed, 'Operation Vittles,' carried out 300 000 flights and transported two million tons of supplies during the 406 …

… Gwala , a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan Africanist … released from Robben Island by the government. Both Gwala and Mothopeng served two terms on Robben Island for their … ANC until his arrest in 1964. He was charged with sabotage and recruiting members for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). Gwala was …

… was first employed as a painter for a cabinet maker, and then as a marine and portrait painter. In 1848, he moved to the Eastern Cape , … the Orange River . Baines recorded the Eighth Frontier War and became South Africa's first official war artist. Some …

… forwarded 300 applications from its members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty and was expecting to submit at least another sixty, including … members were known to have applied at the time. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body …

… Afrikaans writer, even though much of his early writings and early education were in English. He matriculated at the age of sixteen and went on to work as a clerk and later as a journalist. At the age of twenty he owned his … Pinnock, D., ‘Worker in a science yet unborn’ from Southern Write [online] …

… Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was, through worker organisations, to make workers aware of their rights through its in house paper, Isisebenzi (in English and isiZulu), to make representations to Wage Boards for worker determinations, medical and funeral benefits and worker complaints around issues such …

… provides the public with automated access to ANC offices and important information about the organisation. By dialling … of the public can access background information on the ANC and its policies, recent news, and voter registration and elections. Members of the public …

… Pallo Jordan, who became the National Minister of Arts and Culture under President Thabo Mbeki’s administration, was … Archibald Campbell Jordan an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr Priscilla Phyllis Jordan, was a teacher, … Former National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born …

… leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO)  and pioneer of the Black Consciousness philosophy, died in … police cell he had been chained to a grill at night and left to lie in urine-soaked blankets. He had been stripped naked and kept in leg-irons for 48 hours in his cell. A blow in a …

… in an emergency meeting, called for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Malan on grounds that they are … peace process between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and ANC. The ANC further warned that state sponsorship of …

… India. Mercury was sent to boarding school in India and grew up there. At the age of seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled in Britain. In 1970, he formed the band Queen … Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in  Zanzibar, Africa. …

… 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The construction of … of the line had covered 222 miles between Beira and Umtali.  Amid the War, the combined 2ft and 3ft 6in gauge system was utilised to move Carrington's …

… Plaatje was a South African writer, linguist, translator and political leader. Plaatje died of pneumonia at the age of … on a trip to Johannesburg. He was a prolific journalist and writer and in 1912 became first secretary-general of the South … General Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies …

… Dr. Neville Alexander and four others were found guilty of sabotage and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The judge found that … through violence. Along with Namibian activists Kenneth and Tilly Abraham from the South West Africa People’s … Dr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage …

… to a meeting between the African National Congress and the University of Natal. Includes draft programme, … objectives of the meeting, list of participants, and letter from the University of Natal Vice-Chancellor, P de V Booysen, to all staff and Student Representative Council Presidents, regarding a …

… CAPS: Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (2011) Grades 4-6: Social …