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… 28. Activist Dennis Brutus called Nortje “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. and to …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. …

… of Physicians and Surgeons. November: Xuma sets sail for South Africa after spending 14 years studying overseas. 4 December: Xuma arrives back in South Africa on the RMS Saxon. 1928 Xuma moves to  Sophiatown …

… South African Students Organisation: Constitution and …

… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are … beliefs, and traditions that make up the nation of South Africa. The question of National or Cultural heritage …

… 'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped …

… From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against … that students were aware of the racist politics of South Africa and attempts by the government to reproduce …

… and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier Volume Two by John L. Comaroff and …

… Critism and Censorship in the South African “Alternative” Press with particular reference …

… the Chris Hani Award at the 10th National Congress of the South African Communist Party …

… Lance Dyer, a South African, is arrested on the French side of the 50km …

… 1913 and the Report of the Natives Land Commission, by the South African Native National Congress, 2 October, 1916 …

… Black Students In Rebellion: A Study On The Struggle Of The South African Students Organisation In Its Early Years, …

… I. Bud Mbelle, J. W. Dunjwa, and P. J. Motsoakae of the South African Native National Congress, April 1, 1919 …

… and the Report of the Natives Land Commission”, by the South African Native National Congress, October 2, 1916 …

… South African athlete Paul Harwood Nash is born in London. He …

… The bodies of world-famous South African opera star Deon van der Walt and his father …

… amount of R1.3m is paid out in compensation to thirty-two South African seamen who lost fingers as a result of …

… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid …

… 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg … and the Johannesburg District of the Communist Party of South Africa convene the Defend Free Speech Convention, …

… their language and identity. As a free and democratic South Africa today, we cannot ignore to correct the past’. This … of Khoisan communities in the history of modern South Africa. In a similar way to that in which Chief Hendrik …

… ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other anti-apartheid … 19 February, Nelson Mandela was issued with his first South African passport on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he … trip abroad as a result of increased unrest within South Africa 31 March, The ANC decides not to hold talks with the …

… South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the … Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa which was headed by Professor Francis Wilson head of … artist and activist Omar Badsha who Curated the exhibition South African The Cordoned Heart what became a seminal …

… Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South …

… in Beeld (1989) by Anthony Preston. Bion Books: Printed in South Africa. In 1829, shortly after consolidating his power, …

… Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in … II considered establishing a Russian consulate in the South African Republic (ZAR, later Transvaal) in March 1897, …

… reassert itself as the dominant liberation movement within South Africa, whilst challenging the military might of the South African regime at the same time. By 1980 armed actions …

… Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its … which Black rural people live. The picture of Black rural South Africa in the hinterland of the former Transkei, Natal … pp. 215 - 227.|Beinart, W. (1994).  Twentieth Century South Africa , Cape Town: Oxford University Press.|Beinart, W …

… a rock art painting site in the Huns Mountain range in the south-western part of the country which was named after the …                                     There is evidence of a south-westerly migration of pastoralist groups such as the … explorer on his sail around the southernmost part of Africa, visits the coast of Namibia near Swakopmund. 1488     …