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EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
… and banned several times under Apartheid law. Besides his role as an activist, Weinberg was also a renowned …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique begin discussions which lead to the creation of a cross-border conservation park
… a living memorial to Paul Kruger and those who have upheld his vision of a protected wilderness. It is now one of the …
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… the crucial nature of this conference when, making his first-ever reference to an OAU decision, he stated: "The … events in Africa for a long time to come."…
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
… poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Specifically, in his 'Leviathan,' he wrote that: "because the basic condition … against every one; in which case every one…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… proletariat. These are obviously closely linked with his own. The industrial worker also needs mobility; he needs … dispossession the African, and to no…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… athletic, bow-legged Major John Harding, who walked us to his prison. Harding, a Frederik van Zyl Slabbert look- alike, was clearly in command and knew his…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… that was alos [presented at NAF. Dada Masilo premiered Death and the Maiden . Various Master clsses were …
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front (UDF): a case study of democratic organisation, 1983-1987
… of Natal, Durban, 1998. According to the author, his study uses the theoretical basis of writings of Lennin …
PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
… the instructions of Cecil John Rhodes. Rudyard Kipling and his family stayed here during the Summer. … the instructions of Cecil John Rhodes. Rudyard Kipling…
ArchiveWhite and Black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
… discusses the existing multi-ethnicity in South Africa and his vision of South Africa as a federal commonwealth state …
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… people and their leaders, and on the lasting impact of his life and philosophy on South Africa. First Edition : …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… of Pan-Africanism , ordered the release of the last of his political prisoners, detained under the Preventive …
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… In 1982, the small kingdom of Swaziland was shocked when His Majesty, King Sobhuza II, passed away at the age 83 at … Swaziland National Trust Commision,…
EventSenator Robert Kennedy visits SA
… at the University of Cape Town. Kennedy was accompanied by his wife, Ethel, and a small number of close aides. …
EventDjibouti and Cote d’ Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… to Nigeria by the state president, F.W. de Klerk, and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other …
EventHarry Gwala is awarded Isitwalandwe/Seaparakoe
… to liberation struggle. President Nelson Mandela said in his address at Gwala's funeral that it was 'precisely because …
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
… Though the visit was unofficial Botha managed to meet his counterpart, Boris Pankin, and Eduard Shevardnadze, who …
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
… National Congress (ANC) Vice-President Nelson Mandela met his old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced his banning order immediately after the aborted coup attempt …
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's …
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town. During his political career, Eglin was instrumental in the merging …
EventDr. Chris Barnard, medical practitioner who performed the first heart transplant, is born
… Barnard studied medicine at the University of Cape Town. His first practice was at Ceres, also in the Western Cape. …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June …
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… Detention Act which he used to imprison more than 1 000 of his political and social opponents. This was not the first …
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ArchiveMemorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
… may have had a different connotation then. He also gives his view on propositions stated by Martin Legassick and …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… James Watt’s improvements to the steam engine, and his collaboration with Matthew Boulton on the creation of the … and worked with their master who…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, 23 February 2010, Old Assembly, Parliament, Cape Town
… to our country, it is important to reflect an aspect of his life that is often not mentioned. We sometimes forget … Mandela was actually a royal prince…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… not just fold our arms and bide the time and let him play his game as he wants to? Why must we give moral sanction to his schemes? That is the question that…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… six months after he was denied admission to proceed with his law studies at the University of the North, Ramathlodi …
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural …