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ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… fighters went into hiding or dispersed into Kenya. [i] Rise to Prominence The comprehensive defeat of the … Burundian peacekeepers, deployed under the…
Independent Electoral Commission
… every voter is able to record his or her informed choice. MISSION STATEMENT The Independent Electoral Commission is a …
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Dube (22.02.1871- 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His … was one…
PlaceLesotho
… State areas in the seventeenth Century. King Moshoeshoe I , united the Sotho tribes against the Zulu invaders. During … baSotho Nation, and obtained…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… throughout the 1820s, while other Griqua settled on mission stations at Philippolis, in present-day Free State, and …
PlaceUmlazi
… KwaMashu was gazetted. Aligned with the Christianisation mission of the British Empire, some parts of the locations were divided into ‘Mission Reserves’…
PlaceJesser Point Lighthouse
… by four DGPS (Digital Global Positioning System) reference stations. Providing a highly accurate navigation and …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… 21 July 1981, explosions occurred at two electrical power stations in the Eastern Transvaal, causing several millions … Race Relations, p. 78. Kalley, J.A.;…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… it with an opportunity to rededicate itself to its mission. As our most senior visual arts organisation it is deserving of respect and it will, I am sure,…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… to recover after going underground in the 1960s, their mission set the stage for other women’s organisations in the … to unite organisations of all different…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… for European destinations. As a result a number of trading stations were built across East Asia. In terms of trade and …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… and was committed to socialism. In July 1964, when I was 24, my life in South Africa came to a sudden end. The … abrupt fashion, Adrian Leftwich begins his…
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… to the South of the City and generates most of the stations freight traffic. During 2005-2006 over 90,000 tons …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than … the US,…
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… Simon's Town , were also important rest-stops, refueling-stations, and served as strategic assets to the British Royal … in their confrontation with German…
PlaceGoedverwact
… Mission station of the Moravian Church on the Western slopes … the heirs in Dec. 1888 the Moravians (who had been doing mission work there since 1844) bought…
PlaceGroutville
… part of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. His initial missionary work dates back to 1836 when he established the Inkanyeni Mission…
PlacePella
… Nama raider; Jager Afrikaner , who attacked the Warmbad Mission in Great Namaqualand . The Mission Survivors fled South to Cammas Fonteyn, where the … 1806…
PlacePlumstead
… commute in and out of the City, and it’s one of the few Stations that lie almost in the heart of the Suburb, which is …
PlaceRiverside
… accumulated a vast fortune through a string of trading stations and extensive dealings in land. At one stage he also …
ArchiveWaaihoek
… and evictions. These families were evicted from Stendahl Mission near Weenen and the Sun Valley Estates which surrounded the Stendahl Mission. …
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… ignored Inspector Alexander and set off on their rescue mission. The Rescue Mariemuthoo Padavatan got hold of a … recalls: “My father, Sabapathy, recounted…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in selected African languages, were …
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… building contractor MCA MEISCHKE, who built numerous stations and cottages for the NZASM. The new building at …
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… a Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and stations manager, Al-Amin Khalifah Fhimah, who were …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824 and here, and at similar mission schools subsequently established at places like … Imvo in the 1890s. Throughout the…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company came into being on 20 March 1602 and is seen as the first company that issued shares to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… spiritual association with this great Church started. And I cannot over-emphasise the role that the Methodist Church … which spread from the Reverend William…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… to serve as a symbol of hope for African women. While the mission of the school was to provide education for a class of … both loyalty and responsibility to…
EventSouth African artist Michael Zondi is born
… Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission Trade School, and obtained certificates in building … construction and design. He worked at…