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CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER
… CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER …
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Liberia are recognized as independent entities. Partition of West Africa and East Africa 1896 Ethiopia, under Emperor … South Africa, is expelled from Fort…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and after apartheid he continued that … During his life Ngakane sought to expose…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… elections and shifted the country towards the construction of a new political, social and economic order. 27 April, The … on the evening of 31 May 2002 16…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch
… Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch …
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America, South African Ambassador to Germany Abstract … Mabuza had a childhood no different from…
David Anderson
… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… Africa's second democratically elected president in front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The inauguration came … the day, Mandela placed…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The … South Africa gained its independence,…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) … He was born in the Cape in 1922. He…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant … without water. They can also survive large…
BiographyRichard Steele
… in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … volunteer in township soup kitchens at the…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… themselves against European conquest. As a result, most of Africa was colonized by 1900. Only Ethiopia and Liberia … After the First and Second World Wars…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… High School. He joined the Labour Party Youth, a group of radical young people who were opposed to the sectarian politics of the Coloured Labour Party…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… Optometrist Julius Louis Saks was the first son of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South … a farm and trading manager on the farm…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
… when Mashinini was three, a dentist commented that his set of teeth told of his remarkable brilliance. At the age of about 11, he … as a representative for…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
… cadre. He underwent military training in Botswana as part of MK G5 detachment unit whose primary mission was to attack … later and operated underground in…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… is among the Dutch settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the … Slaves in South Africa are also freed,…
BiographyMohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
… treason trialists. In June 1957, Judge Kuper acquitted him of charges when the Treason Trial adjourned. However, charges … Bob was detained for five months,…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom … threatened that we would be…
BiographySylvia Neame
… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… and her Independence. Machel was a revolutionary leader of the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO and Independent … the controversy surrounding his death…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no publication exists that focuses solely on the history of the school. The…
BiographyEthel de Keyser
… to study further, and it was there that she learned of the detention of her adored elder brother, Jack Tarshish, during the state … camps. Ethel immediately…
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… On 15 November 1920, the General Assembly of the League of the Nationsmet in Geneva, Switzerland for the first time. The League was an international body…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million … addition, the widespread use of red ochre,…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the … were mostly successful in preventing…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and … announced that they had reason to believe…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan
… Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan …
ArticleBanishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950
… Banishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 …