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EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… for twelve years. Cameron was a judge at the time and is one of the first few high profile people to publicly disclose …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. …
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… Campbell was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed English poets. The son of …
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… 1940's, came to the attention of colonial authorities as one of the rising stars of Rhodesia's African nationalist …
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… the Miss South Africa 2010 and Miss World 2009. Mclean has one son with ex husand Neil Bierbaum. She is the first and …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… by gunshot. According to reports Kabila was shot by one of his bodyguards in front of army generals, following a …
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… for the Transvaal, Mr. P.S. Claasen. According to reports, one of the detainees had died while in custody and 22 inmates …
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… and often conflicting interests between settlers on the one hand, and Company (and later British colonial) agendas …
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… aunts, uncles and grandparents all living very close to one another. As a result, the division of labour was clearly …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… The MPLA repels an attempted coupby one of its prominent leaders and subsequently establishes …
ArticleThe missionaries
… which caused conflict amongst the Pondo people. One such example was Mhlangaso, chief councillor to the …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… force in the United States in the late 1960s and ’70s as one of the manifestations of the Black Power movement. By the …
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Vorster and Mulder to resign and to boost his own image as one of integrity and concern for the image of the government. …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects involved the construction of a tombstone …
ArticleTransport on water
… these different boats all have their own characteristics. One of these is the dhow, originally from the Arabian Seas …
ArticleWhat makes a good or great leader?
… the leader of a country, like the president, is the one who rules the country. Sometimes a leader can be the most …
ArticleThe Basotho
… rivers, flat-topped and freestanding mountains formed. One of Moshoeshoe’s followers found a virtually impenetrable …
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… whose economies were shaped by Europeans to rely on one or few commodities, the “monocrop” of cocoa is a large … repeated atrocities against “foreigners”,…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… and unsociable. I sneaked unconsciously into it. I became one of it.’ For most new workers fresh from the land, the … could pass hundreds of people in the…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew PLANS FOR 1944 "WE meet at a time when one of the most colossal…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… labourers and, in the final struggle, they rose like one man. Repeat that history today, and you will win. Do not … us even then. Gandhiji: But we had…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… is that this distinguished and august audience is not one of a group of people in South Africa, representatives of … all of them. It is all the more a pity…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… invited guests, The African National Congress was founded one-hundred-and-four years ago. The ANC appreciates what a … opportunity to commemorate the…
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the most significant, prolific and influential … period, Ngugi wrote additionally eight short…
PlaceSammy Mark’s Residence, Zwartkoppies, Pretoria
… today, in this carefully preserved House Museum and it is one of the many Tourist Attractions in South Africa, that … until they were old enough to be sent…
Editorial on taxation, in November 10, 1884 [Extract]
… We are concerned at present with the pointing out of one or two facts, which ought not to be ignored by … to us, a very difficult problem to solve. We yield…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 17 - Letter from E. … is to start with a less ambitious…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great 'actor-managers' of Great-Britain. … rather acting as an adapter sometimes of…
EventBambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata
… One of the roots of the Bambata/Bambatha Rebellion can be … of a farmer, Henry Smith, on the 17 January 1906 by one of his workers. When questioned during…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… the world we live in today. It was a world in which no one continent or culture dominated the rest. Each had its own … societies underwent during the period…