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ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… 0.10 19 451 0 Federal Party 0.09 17 663 0 Minority Front 0.07 13 433 0 Soccer 0.05 10 575 0 Africa Democratic Movement …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
1815 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg cross the Oranje/Gariep river. June 1836, Van Rensburg leaves Trichardt while Potgieter goes on an expedition to…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Revamped SA History sight! Hi there, I have … chronologies. e.g. Compare what Walter…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… with political prisoners on Robben Island. [xiv] In 1963 and 1964 large numbers of political prisoners began to …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
George Teboho Mokgalagadi, with his hair dyed golden, won a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprint in his first international competition at the…
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… ↵ [iv] Golden memories, http://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold-cup-history-golden-memores/ (27 July 2013). ↵ … memories, https://www.sportingpost.co.za…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… response [Online], available at: anc.org.za/ [Accessed 07 May 2010] …
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… ATKV writing competition Sunday, 20 October, 2013 06:30 – 07:30 - Sunrise reflection at monument 17:30 – 20:00 - …
ArticleCensus in South Africa
From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… behind. Nortje published his first poems in the summer of 1963. During this time, South Africa was in a State of …
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 founders of the kingdom were KiKongo…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the British, American and French zones of Berlin, a city which was located deep within Soviet…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… before our session in Nairobi takes place in October 1963, the International Olympic Committee ill be obliged to … be most fruitful if talks could be…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… on the path to independence, which was finally achieved in 1963. Background The British colonial presence in Kenya began …
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… [xv] It is a mostly silent film that was shot in 1963 in London, in black and white to ensure that the nature …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… to the world the political situation in South Africa. 1963 Visits the USSR and China to gain support from these two …
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… 1978: 468) The General Law Amendment Act, No. 37 of 1963 further amended the Criminal Procedure Act and provided … for imprisonment as the Terrorism Act…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
Origins The organisation known as Al-Shabaab originally emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia. The ICU began as a loose grouping of…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… police and permitted the arbitrary arrest of any person. 1963 The 90 Day Detention law came into effect. The police … could be repeated as often as the…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. At the formation of the OAU, as the liberation …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… Essak and his band of organisers to those areas. In early 1963, there was talk of leaving the country to undergo …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Islamic Studies; The Indian Views, March 20, 1942 and May 07, 1943; The Graphic, No 20, January 18, 1963, p 1. 78. Imam Abdullah Haron:..., p 17. 79. Naude,…
PlaceChad
… . This grab for power was followed by severe rioting in 1963 by the Muslim population of Chad [ci] . President … for Africa to the Algerian Independence War …
PlaceClarens, Eastern Free State
Clarens, a small Town situated in the Eastern Free State which was established in 1912. The Village of Clarens, was a result of two Farms being sold: …
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as possible’ [i] , while at the same time ensuring that those…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… them a sense of solidarity and comradeship. In December 1963, Shirish and seventy other prisoners were transferred by …