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Students Perspectives on South Africa - Chapter 10
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Introduction
Preface
Students Perspectives on South Africa
Latest in the SAHO archive: 29 May 2013 - 11 June 2013
EventNaledi High School is founded
Naledi High School, the site where historic anti-Bantu Education student uprisings were first felt, commemorated 50th anniversary on 8 June 2013. On 8 June…
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
Zambian golfer Madalitso Muthiya began playing golf at the age of six. After he broke a bedroom window while playing with his father’s clubs, his father…
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
The National Assembly voted in favour of the separation of the people of South Africa into four distinct races (White, Black, Coloured, and Indian) through…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
South Africa and Lesotho decided to establish a consultative committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common…
EventKenyan politician, businessman and mathematician, George Saitoti dies
George Saitoti was born in Maasailand where he grew up herding cattle. He is of Masai and Kikuyu descent which would prove to be a disadvantage in his future…
EventTwenty-six miners trapped in a Swaziland coal mine are rescued with help from South Africa.
Twenty-six miners were trapped when a roof collapsed at the Emaswati Coal mine near Mpaka, Swaziland. The fastest way to get the miners out was through a drill…
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
General Sir Redvers Buller' forces attacked Botha's Pass in Natal. After a five hour battle the Republican forces were in retreat, defeated. His troops…
Three Hundred Years by Hosea Jaffe ‘Mnguni’
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
St Wendolins was situated about 14 km from Central Pinetown, on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill and individual African Plot Holders…
PlaceRooigrond
Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province). The…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
Johnny Clegg was born in England in 1953 to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. He left England for Zimbabwe where he lived until the age of seven. He…
EventBernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first White baby, is born at the Cape
Two months after Dutch man Jan Van Riebeek and the Dutch East India Company arrived in the Cape, the first white baby was born. The baby was named Bernert…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
Unrests broke out in the Coloured townships south-west of Johannesburg. This was preceded in April by the Coloured schools' boycott which began as a result of…