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EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… position of State President. However, his spell in the new office was short-lived. He relinquished the position …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA. There he set the new South African record of 1:42:86. However, since then his …
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… 40 year-old Dorothy Fisher was given a new heart in 1969 and became the longest surviving patient. …
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. …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Rogosin, and soon published Home and Exile in 1965 in New York. Others not yet famous, but with good connections or … allegiances, left South Africa around…
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 …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… at the time were working in isolation from each other. The new generation comprised Omar Badsha, Judas Ngwenya, Jimmy … But the meeting point was fundamental…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Rebellions like the Soyo rebellion became the Kingdom’s new way of supplying slaves [xlix] . During the mid-1600s it … bands of warriors moved vast…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… against South Africa by the General Assembly, with a new programme of action being introduced the following year. … The ANC decided to discuss these problems…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… they thought it would. Therefore they continue to devise new measures further to tighten the noose around the people. The new conditions which the Pretoria…
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 …
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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…
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…