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ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… to the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… of the second centenary. The ANC will this year hold its main anniversary celebrations in KwaZulu-Natal at Kings Park … ready to accommodate overflow in the…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… and the role of jazz music in general. As early as the 1940s, jazz had emerged as the favored genre of the elite in … or need for myself now, because Allah…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…
Introduction
… of the strident confidence that was evident in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are two strands in Indian …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Department was changed to The Department of Defense in the 1940s In the 1980s, the MX-Missile was renamed "The …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… The reformism of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s had produced its reaction in the radical nationalism of … but built the factories, mines, towns,…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
The Pioneers
… South Africans were extremely limited in the 1930s and 1940s, there were a number of mission schools which offered … carvings for use in the churches. During…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… International of South Africa (FIOSA) emerged in the early 1940s after a split in the Trotskyist Cape Town-based Lenin … not without reservations. FIOSA died…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. …
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… African/Indian racial dynamics in Natal. Beginning in the 1940s, tumultuous debates among black intellectuals over the … on material that “appears to be…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only … Relations and the Friends of Africa…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… Party member to serve on the Johannesburg Council in the 1940s); and Ruth First . These were people who Winnie was …
PlaceDiep River
… with effortless gardens and homes. Closer to the Main Road and the Railway Line lies the Industrial area, give … than many other suburbs, and, it has Martins…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… the system are the Buffalo River from the West -with its main tributary the Touws River, together forming the Groot River, which joins the main stream 85 km…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… The 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of … shops make for some interesting shopping - these are the…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… them into bloody strikes, violence and rebellion. Their main enemy was the Chamber of Mines, a body of men who owned … in the world, while their black…