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An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one knows where the end of suffering will begin.” – Burger’s …
EventThe UN sets up Commission on Apartheid
… Thirty-five delegates voted in favour of the commission, one voted against it, with twenty-three abstentions. …
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… Others (resolution 317 (IV) of 2 December 1949. This was one of the early resolutions of the UN, adopted during the …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… died in Stellenbosch at the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a few members of Parliament who opposed the …
EventEgypt Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Israel
… Egypt's military forces, the fifth largest in Africa, is one of the best in the region. The new diplomatic …
EventF.W. de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
… graduated with a law degree in 1958. They had two sons and one daughter. Their marriage ended in 1998 in a divorce, …
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… It required people to register from birth as belonging to one of four different racial groups, White, Black, Coloured …
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans architects and pioneered new …
EventGambia becomes a republic
… Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa. It gained its …
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… West Africa, as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… Some of this discussion advanced the proposition that one of the reasons I would and did lose the election was that … National Conferences and the National…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
… where he could complain and get a fair hearing. In one of his most famous novels, "Crime and Punishment", he … humanity and the good of all. What do you…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… on the Feudal System, where land ownership determined one’s wealth and position in society. [1] This system was … 1. Depopulation Historians indicate…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
… to address this important meeting convened to deal with one of the most critical challenges facing all nations of the … basic condition of man”¦ is a…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… first theatre to stage its’ first ever interracial kiss in one of their earliest productions, Miss Julie in 1985, which … in exceptional modernity. The…
ArchiveVisualising the web of state capture, November 7, 2016
… shows that the story is much bigger than that. It is one of wholesale capture of many of South Africa’s … the data shows that President Zuma is really just…
PlacePort St. Johns
… a natural extension of the KZN South Coast. Walking gives one a unique perspective! The setting of Port St Johns is … the country and the drive from Umtata…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… Walking through the enchanting African Rain Forest enables one to cross the Crocodile River across the famous suspended … establishing the Cycad Gene Bank…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… rule in 1906. In 1910 it formed the Transvaal Province, one of the four provinces of the newly constituted state, the … were originally laid. Krugersdorp…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as one of the top ten Greatest South Africans of all time. The … political controversy. Nelson Mandela…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… say 'NO'? And when he has turned South African life into one vast unfunny game of rugby with every non-Nationalist … by the South African Congress of Trade…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… the development in the Cape of a colonial slave society, one of the models identified in Chapter 1. Dooling first … society that developed in the first…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… first place the agreement was I am told a merely temporary one, secondly it is unreasonable to contend that a private … my claim so strongly before your kind…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… conquest in Southern Africa that she set about writing her one great published work "The Role of the Missionaries" as it … with its concepts of non-racialism…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… The Amatola Region is one of the most beautiful and diverse in the Eastern Cape. … individual forests. The Amatola Hiking Trail, ranked as one of the country…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… Cape. A brutal police raid on Langa on 30 March, provoked one of the largest marches in Cape Town's history, when 30 … off and cordons of troops and armoured…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… Castle is not known to have fired a shot in anger, and is one of a number of fortifications subsequently added to cover … to have been erected at the Cape…
ArchiveInterview with the Midland Chamber of Industries
… was is in force in the eastern Cape. Thirteen whites and one black, the personnel manager of a local business, were …
PlaceGlenara, Burg Street, Rondebosch
… was designed by the architect AW Ackerman, and built by one Mannix for Louis Antony Vintsent in 1882-3. The building …
PlaceSpringbok Park, Hatfield, Pretoria
… it has since been planted with indigenous flora making it one of Pretoria's most attractive and established Open-Air …