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BiographyMuntu Myeza
… in student political activities and joined the South African Students Organization (SASO). In July 1973 at the …
BiographySindiwe Magona
… Magona is one of many internationally prominent South African writers whose work is informed by her experience of …
BiographyMohamed Hajee Joosub
… Pretoria by ox-wagon in the company of several Dutch and African travellers. With only a few pounds in his pocket he …
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
… publicised wedding was attended by the A-list of South African celebrities. This included Dr Nelson Mandela and his …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… in Pretoria. Van der Bijl was born into a very influential family as his father was a produce merchant and a property … his sights on the steel industry and…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Mansions will be converted into medium density Low-Cost Housing. Quotes about Bertrams “Bertrams is set to change, …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… Camilla and Aurora. Apart from the members of my own small family, my staunchest supporters were my mother Frerna and my … Documentation Programme at the…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… Executive Committee and the entire membership of the African National Congress. Comrades, the ANC speaks at this … poverty. Speed up economic development in…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… kind and warm welcome to me, my wife and the entire South African delegation. It is indeed a special pleasure for us to … to accelerate the pace of…
ArticleThe San
… or 'clicks', belonged to a totally different language family from those of the Bantu speakers. Broadly speaking, … of Stone Age hunter-gatherers populated…
PlaceCape Town International Convention Centre
With over 17 years of service excellence and crafting extraordinary experiences, the CTICC has built an enviable reputation as a premier Business Tourism venue…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… it to address these realities. Ms B. Mbete-Kgositsile, MP, African National Congress, Constitutional Assembly, 15 August … disadvantaged communities, largely…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 1: Local History
… Learners will collect information about their local areas by collecting information from various sources, namely …
Bantu Women’s League
… pass laws for women in the Free State and other areas as well. After the formation of the League, Charlotte …
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… tailored to meet the needs and interests of women in those areas. UWO initiated the bus boycotts in 1984 and the bread …
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… production. This event ended a pioneering episode in South African engineering history. The history of the Kimberly mine … fortune at the Kimberly mines…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… in Pretoria. Fischer was convicted of conspiring with the African National Congress (ANC) Umkonto we Sizwe to commit … degrading prison conditions. After…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… and Lebowa. The Limpopo River is a river the South African Province, Botswana , Zimbabwe and Mozambique . It's … tree in the Limpopo Province Baobab trees…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the story of … at Easter. The land at Abbotsdale was…
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… was selling its remaining 40 per cent holding in its South African associate, Barclays National Bank Limited of South … admitted that while the decision to…
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… other mines in the region and boreholes were drilled into areas where survivors were expected to be. When microphones … a massive collapse. Following the…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… the first company awarded the bid to operate the South African National Lottery. Born in Germiston, Gauteng, in … from his mother, who was the sole…
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… Land. The District includes moderate and high rainfall Areas, along its sub-tropical Coast, but also in pockets of … Tambo (27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993),…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… its people, an open democracy from which no single South African shall be excluded, a society in which the human … to die of hunger and malnutrition, which…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… the village as being more beneficial to farmers than areas such as Potchefstroom, and he mentions that a church, … of Gotha in Germany published a map of…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… for a male elder). He probably foresaw that as we were urban university-student types in our late twenties and early … ‘Ou-Maat’. Indeed, when certain…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… there, if the breadwinner dies, and within a year if the family don't find anyone among them to take over the job, … many of them, you know, were manned by…
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… gatherings were banned and schools in Soweto and other areas of unrest were closed. The government was hoping that … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… lines. Conflict broke out between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party … taken place in 1994, relative calm had been…