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Congo gains its independence from Belgium
… Congo with Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister. However, the new nation was soon embroiled in a civil war that resulted in …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… state was beginning to adopt elements of the West’s new neoliberal project. This is because it sought to …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton , of Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha). …
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… Immigrant, in 1874. He used some rather different and new Farming Methods, such as erecting outbuildings for his …
PlaceMonterey House, Klaasens Road, Wynberg
… School continued at these premises for the next 30years. New premises needed to be found for the start of the 2009 …
PlaceGroote Schuur Estate
… In 1930 this structure was demolished and replaced by a new lion enclosure which was known as Groote Schuur Zoo. It …
PlacePakhuis Pass
… km) and has a big altitude gain of 824m. Most of the new road follows Thomas Bain's original lines. When it was …
PlacePiquetberg
… March 1848 it was proclaimed the magisterial seat for the new district of Piquetberg. Its name was derived from the …
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… manner the idea of a fourth International and a new Communist Party.The Left Opposition is a fraction of the …
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Wolton is leaving tonight for Cape Town to introduce the "new line" to the Cape Town branch. At the Johannesburg branch …
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… Apartheid policies at its 838th plenary meeting in New York. The resolution expressed "deep conviction" that …
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… are awarded to the first competitor across the line, new records being set, as well as the first three across the …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… war with black nationalists, his government gave way to a new administration in 1979, leading to the creation of …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… elections. Along with Transkei, it became part of the new Eastern Cape Province. Its capital became the capital of …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… the the Orange Free State after the government introduced new legislation that requiring women to carry passes. The …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… 88th birthday celebrations have kicked off with a new round of honours for this anti-apartheid icon, including …
EventYoussou N’Dour, Senegalese singer, is born.
… BBC News article about N'Dour's presidential bid. Online New York Times article about Youssou N'Dour's presidential …
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… at a time when electronic data processing was a relatively new thing. Each advertisement gave each donor a set of check … known around the world. For us in…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… their history. Fans queued simply to get a look at their new star, but their interest had less to do with his … coming; 13 years earlier Mokone had been…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… 2017. The president is confident that Malusi Gigaba , the new minister of finance is fit for the task. When the …
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… A patient visiting a sangoma. Image source Inyangas New words Definition Inyanga This is a healer who uses herbs …
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… and how old are they? SAHO is continuously developing new content for this section. Please contribute any content …
A growing urban African population
… here, it was Sophiatown that absorbed the majority of the new arrivals. By 1950, the population of the Western Areas as …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… by the SACP after the expulsion ). Clements Kadalie A new membership drive into rural areas of Natal, Transvaal, … Group, pg 118.|Giliomee, H. and Mbenga, B…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
… The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… itself from the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1964, The New York Times reported that the South African Press …
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
… The elections resulted in the establishment of the new Government of National Unity (GNU) led by the African …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… years. There was also a call to equalize the pensionable age at sixty (60) years. The commissions also called for the … be gradually extended to 18 years old…
Chapter 5
… the country, putting before the people the idea of this new form of organisation. Let us suppose that it had been in … would be rather different. He would…
PlaceGrabouw
… and was not filled for the next eight years. In 1852 a new and more substantial Bridge was built further upstream …