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EventIdi Amin is deposed as the President of Uganda
… Idi Dada Amin ruled Uganda from 1971 until 1979 after he unconstitutionally seized power from president Obote Milton. However, in 1979 he suffers the ……
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were officially instituted in … Africans of their South African…
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… on the charge, but were given prison sentences ranging from seven to one year's imprisonment for being members of … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventUNHRC service is enlisted in repatriation process
… repatriating about 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries with which Pretoria did not have diplomatic … the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… was organised by the ANC to commemorate their release from prison. The rally, which was held at the Soccer City … to speak to South Africans after 25 years…
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations converged in South Africa from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy ……
EventThe Gift Of The Givers Foundation helps tsunami victims
… water into Somalia immediately after getting a go-ahead from the United Nations to aid tsunami victims in Somalia on 30 January. This was the first…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… Mgqwetho was the first woman poet to publish in Xhosa. From 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than ninety poems, … very little is known about her life, she…
EventEmmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer, is born
… He is currently playing for Charlton Athletic on loan from Arsenal. In 2012, Frimpong switched his national eligibility from England to his country of birth,…
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… gallery, in the old Camouflage space opposite the road from the Goodman, comes at a time when lower Rosebank is … pieced together group show featuring…
PlaceMadagascar
… separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. Madagascar later split from India…
African History Books
… and to promote awareness, we made a selection of books from our archive that intent to show Africa’s variety and diversity from a historical perspective…
PlaceHawston
… of whom is the abalone one. It was refuge and home to many from Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, USA, Sweden and … activities for abalone diving. The…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… decided on an obelisk, and funds were raised by donations from the friends of the Herschels in Cape Town. The stone for … the southern heavens. Immediately…
PlaceBerg River
… river used to be navigable for a distance of about 45 km from its mouth and, during the 1880's, it was accessible to a … in the IUCN red list – seems to have…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… as to realise the priorities of the mandate which derives from election and ongoing interaction with civil society. One of the lessons we draw from our own…
PlacePeelton
… to as Birt's Mission, and was located a short distance from the village of Chief Bhotomani, near Fort Beaufort. The … 576 were literate. The Reverend Birt's…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid … restricted utopian ”” idealistic. This adjective comes from Utopia, an imagined perfect place or state…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… named after the River whose name is thought to be derived from the intertwined cat-thorn shrubs present in the Area, or … here, with taxis going up and down…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… the period 1880 to 1900, thanks to increased Funding from Private Sources and the Government. During these years, … the Alfred Beit bequest and additional…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… gliding fraternity means that numerous gliders take off from the nearby hills, their silent and somewhat eerie flight … the Eastern Cape Province, is a small…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … the political liberation of all the Indian national groups from Imperialism: and secondly, the right…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… in a storm many years later. In 1928 Miss Ethel Rubery from England bought the property and started the "Cypress Tea … keeper of the high culinary standards,…
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… appointment of the new Headmaster who had just returned from military service. The strike was organised by an … recognised by the school and its leaders were…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… 1939 in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a … and novitiated to become a priest, but…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… In 1972, conscription (national service) was increased from 9 months to 1 year, as well as 19 days of service … was handed over to the South African Defense…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… chief of Lesotho, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until Lesotho gained full independence from Britain in 1966. He was king of Lesotho from 1966…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… as the Elephant House after surviving numerous attacks from local elephant herds. A sandy track that later became … the elephants used on their daily trek to…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… life of the South African Indian community, can be gauged from the fact that up until the late 1930's, the they formed … the Cities Municipal boundaries. The…
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
… resolved. It also suggests agency and a utopian instant from within a maelstrom: the storming of a bastion which … ends with renunciation, restitution and…