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… Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a …

… Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide …

… The Rev. Wilhelm A. Alheit is inducted in the DRC in Colesberg.   He and his daughter drowned in 1910 at Kleinmond. …

… minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in …

… In the Parliamentary by-election in Durban North, the Progressive Reform Party’s candidate gains the party’s first seat in Nata …

… Prof. W.S.  Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl …

… Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur …

… The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a …

… People or institutions (like banks) that invest money in feature films want to know that they will be guaranteed … and Lena had Americans Angelina Basset and Danny Glover in the starring roles, when there were a host of South … Brink's A Dry White Season was made into a film by MGM in 1989. Shot in Zimbabwe, it starred Donald Sutherland and …

… From the book:  Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 14. "africanism," … the sword, in much the same way as Napoleon, to unite the Black races of Southern Africa. Moshesh, the strategist, had … was inspired by the flaming passion to unify the whole of black Africa, through the instrumentality of the spear. He …

… CHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, …

… Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape … Festival, UK Cities in Crisis: Photographs of the SA urban landscape, FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg …

… 1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape … of Cape Town 1960 Changes to philosophy 1960 Sharpeville – black mass movement curtailed and white opposition groups … at Rhodes University 1970 Makes contact with Black Consciousness leaders, among whom is Steve Biko 1970 …

… Max  Gordon was born in 1910,he was adopted by a family named Gordon after his father's early death.In 1932 he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of … of whether white leadersship was necessary to promote black unions. In January 1942 Gordon went to port Elizabeth …

… The early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained in August 1966 under the 180-day clause (section 215 bis of … on 29th March 1983 the minister of law and order revealed in parliament that Mr Hamakwayo had been detained on 28 …

… Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945.  Solomon … 1970s to the 1990s before being elected Cape Town’s first black woman mayor from 1996 to 1998, after serving as deputy … mayor the previous year. In 1975, Solomon joined the Black Women’s Organisation and became actively involved in …

… The roots of the student uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for Black students. The result was that Black teachers now had more students to teach and fewer … 30 January 2014]|Ndlovu.S.M, Soweto as published in South African Democracy Education Trust,  The Road to …

… SA Air Force operation, ANC seeks amnesty for atrocities, by …

… SA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Bomb damage runs into …

… as well as the newly appointed secretary of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) Department of Urban and Rural … under the same act from October 1977 to March 1978.  In September 1978, he was granted permission to attend a conference in Lesotho of inter-territorial meeting of Bishops in …

… and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met in Pretoria to discuss majority rule for Rhodesia. South … that his government had accepted Kissinger's proposal of a Black majority government within two years. This, however, did not end the war in Rhodesia. The Black movements in Rhodesia and the leaders of the front line …

…  Charles Bennett (Buck) Llewellyn was born in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and black mother. Being of mixed–raced meant that Llewellyn was … he was closer to white in appearance than he was to black, so much so that he could get away with it at times. …

… Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. … of the correctness of Comintern directives regarding the "Black Republic" policy, she became a key member of the …

… that it would been possible to overcome many obstacles in the path of realising this goal. 2. Our country is on the … and the ANC would have to address in order to resolve the SA conflict through negotiations. I stated: Two political … which is the quintessential hallmark of democracy, with black domination. 5. In the second place, you have …

… Born in Natal in 1931, he studied at Adams College and Ohlange Institute, where he matriculated in 1950. After working some time in a Durban textile plant, … Representative Council he pressed for a break between black students and the white-led National Union of South …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke FOR A PEOPLE engaged in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the … bubble of all the racial myths find White superiority and Black inferiority and strip away layer after layer of the …

… The nineteenth century in South Africa is noted for the revolutionary processes that … out by Europeans only independent of the historical consciousness of the Africans with whom they were in contact. … of those of Africans....Cobbing repeats the separation of black and white history in as serious a way as the myth of …

… political analyst Professor Lawrence Schlemmer was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 September 1936. … economics and anthropology. His efforts to help unionise Black workers won him the support of Chief Mangosuthu … for him: they wanted access to the office of one of his Black researchers. They explained that the researcher was an …

… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and … 100 sabotage attacks across the country. The government, in response, introduced two savage new security laws, the … agreed . The aluminium poles for the antenna were painted black so that they would not reflect stray light when pulled …

… actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a … Hunt,  In 1974 Mafela co-starred in South Africa’s first Black feature film, “Udeliwe” with Cynthia Shange. In the … character of 'Sdumo'.  This sitcom became a major hit in Black television as it ran to 78 episodes on SABC. Mafela had …