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EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… overthrew the civilian government, and he was named the new President. His reign was marked by increasing levels of …
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the …
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Coloured people's feelings of being marginalised in the new South Africa, warned against this and said Coloureds must …
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… ID welcomed eighteen municipal councillors, mainly from New National Party (NNP), on the first day of the …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… Summit started at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The Millennium Summit was the biggest ever for …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… relativity theory revolutionized scientific thought with new conceptions of time, space, mass, motion, and …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… of whom was named Maria. Source: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… and in 1970 it took ownership of a prestigious new head office building at 78 Fox Street. The bank has grown …
EventThe historic Tana Baru Muslim cemetery is forced to close
… The Muslim cemetery Tana Baru (meaning 'New Ground'), where some of the earliest and most respected …
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… South Africa. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. Undine. New York: 1972. Date is 1929 Woman and Labor. …
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… a government agency. In 1992, Wits University named a new hall of residence for students after him. …
PlaceCederberg Wilderness Area
… art has been dated to be as old as 28 000 Years, with the age of the Cederberg paintings ranging from 8 000 Years to …
PlaceCarletonville
… its way through the Tolokwe Ruins which was: 'an Iron Age settlement'. There is a skydiving club based in the town …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… in September FW de Klerk became president talking of a ‘new South Africa’. Other political prisoners, including …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Makeba and Whoopi Goldberg as the leading actors. The new projects of commemorating and memorialising the June 16 …
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… are not part of the 1994 elite pact. We are a completely new generation, with new demands. And our demands, unlike those of the 1994 … - Introducing a…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… heritage of this country. We are already inculcating a new national identity through promoting national symbols such … heating and other uses. The…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… heritage of this country. We are already inculcating a new national identity through promoting national symbols such … heating and other uses. The…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… were not organized they met as Bosses and established a new company. This new company bought all employment opportunities and sold a …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… on the changing nature of the African working class, new constructions of rural-urban linkages and new terrains of struggle for a changing African worker. …
PlaceSahara Desert, in North Africa.
… have been extensively restored, to make them look new!". There are long narrow defiles- (A defile is a narrow … Construction began around 1550 BCE during…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… She died in 1929, in Johannesburg. Sontonga died at the age of 32. The sources differ about the year of his death, …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… Matiti, Teteb). “The |habab , the young woman’s coming of age ceremony,” (Iis and Meis). “From the story of Iis,” …
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… free health care for pregnant women and children under the age of six. The Free State Provincial Government heeded this …
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
… 500 000 jobs. 7 ANTI-POVERTY MEASURES The increase in Old Age Pensions in line with inflation, or slightly higher, is …
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Township, in Durban. It is surrounded by Westville, Kloof, New Germany and Inanda in the distant. Its main road is … work opportunities in the nearby suburbs…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Beck. Photographs: Faces of Hluphekani, Ralph Grunder; New Photographs from the Market Photography Workshop. … Beck Photographs B f l Faces of Hluphekani…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… a twist of fate preventing its interior overhaul, the new owner of this gracious Steenberg Estate manor created … Intent on stamping her own mark of creative…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… NV. Ispat Iscor Limited commenced trading under the new name Mittal Steel South Africa Limited in March 2005. … Mittal Steel South Africa commenced trading…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
… a train to Port Elizabeth and went to stay with her in New Brighton. In those days it was much easier because I … to your room and sleep. But it was not so…