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… João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal. …

… Kotzé de Klerk, missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ceylon, is born in Garies, Namaqualand. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 246. … (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice. …

… Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics … Hendrik Jacobus Coetzee (Kobie), Minister of Justice in the previous government, is born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. …

… The South African Police Force stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffer casualties in clashes with ‘terrorists’ …

… civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.   …

… Mauch, purported to be the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten …

… farm workers, Levi and Jerita Bopape. He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the northern Transvaal. In 1916 his father fought against … Kotane and John Beaver Marks and again ordered by the apartheid government to resign from the ANC and CPSA. But his …

… crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Four planes were hijacked in total, two were flown into the World Trade Centre, one … Archives of Global Change in the 21st Century,  September 11, 2001-The Day the World …

… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by Anton Rupert. The first cigarettes were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded … The Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa …

… congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started … The church was very small and not much appreciated. In September 1882 it was badly damaged by a storm and shortly … Square. While it was being built church services were held in the Tivoli Theatre in Mark Street. The government bought …

… In this paper, at the the very outset, Bozolli, has expectations of change in the educational pattern as well as change in attitudes. The effects of segregating schools has led to a … Education is the key to change in South Africa …

… to the Cape colony, the first 1820 settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 … as Port Elizabeth. Lord Somerset, the British governor in South Africa, encouraged the immigrants to settle in the frontier area of what is now the Eastern Cape. This …

… (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in the Boer War and were taken prisoners. My mother, as a … joined General de la Rey, the leader of the rebel commando in the district. It was a very sad morning for us children …

… South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence … negotiations heralded the end of foreign intervention in the war in Angola and the ultimate independence of South … Negotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London …

… Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban , KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended … was one of 27 young ANC members to go into exile after the apartheid government banned the organisation in 1960. She did … convened the first International Conference on Health and Apartheid. It was hosted by the World Health Organisation in …

… A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talked with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) decided to … work under Black South Africans at its first synod held in 1824. In 1857, the DRC synod decided to have separate …

… Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of … Johannesburg , Transvaal where her mother owned property. In Newclare, Amina grew up without any consciousness of … Indians, like Amina, were opposed to this new form of apartheid and Anti-SAIC committees were formed to fight the …

… Clarence van Riet Lowe was born on 4 November 1894 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape. A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of over a hundred bridges in South Africa. It was during the construction of the … archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC. …

… Eban Abba, Israeli statesman was born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son … still a child. After graduating at Cambridge University in 1938 he became a lecturer in Middle Eastern Language and Literature. During World War … Eban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town …

… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was established in terms … Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970 …

… From the book:  Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede I knew Anton … From the first time when he came into my offices in Diagonal Street in 1943, Lembede struck me not only as a keen intellectual, … Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu …

… born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He settled in the Cape, where the scenery would later be the inspiration … Edward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West …

… was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the … to as Americo-Liberians emerged as the ruling class. In 1847, Liberia became a republic and its political system … despite the existence of British and French imperialism in the West African region. Following a period of relative …

… Kwame Nkrumah the All African People Conference was held in the capital city Accra in December 1958. Nkrumah felt that Ghana independence would … African states are still colonised by the European powers. In April 1958, Nkrumah as the pioneer of the ideology of …

… In August 1844 French forces under General Thomas Bugeaud defeated the Moroccan army in the battle of Isly. The battle was a result of the French … resistance leader, Abd al-Qadir who had taken refuge in the country. Following the defeat Sultan Abd ar-Rahman of …

… April 1961, France conducted its fourth nuclear bomb  test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was … to lead Europe and potentially become a superpower in its own right. This ambition was thwarted by the creation … and the position occupied by Britain and the United States in this military alliance. This situation was further …

… survived without medical attention.  Consequently, he died in the desert. Hammerl and other frontline journalists were … the rebels’ attempt to oust Muammar Gaddaffi’s regime in February 2011. South African International Relations and … Hammerl family said: "From the moment Anton disappeared in Libya we have lived in hope as the Libyan officials …

… was a British born engineer who built railway lines in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and other Southern … of 20. His company Pauling and Co. was a major contributor in the development of railways in Southern and Central Africa. Though he expanded his … Flicker George Pauling with his first wife in Grahamstown   [online] Available at: www.flickr.com …

… In the prologue to The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley claimed that … differently there”. That is certainly true for 1914, for in that year southern Africa was mired in warfare, rebellion, protest and unrest. One hundred years … History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories …