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… The 21.19 carat diamond that would come to be known as the Eureka Diamond was discovered by a young boy and his little sister as they played in their family farm along the Vaal River. The …

… Thomas Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy) is an award-winning South African artist. He has … he liked “to draw happy people doing ordinary things such as travelling on buses, talking and singing in places I know …

… He was captured and sent to the Dulag Luft transit camp as a prisoner of war. He tried to escape from the camp three … Bushell was shot dead. This incident has come to be known as the Great Escape. …

… Cape Town to Afrikaner parents, Coetzee uses his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town …  In 1962, he left for the United Kingdom where he worked as a computer programmer for IBM in London. In 1963, while …

… growth in the number of African and white states, as well as heightened levels of military, political and social …

… Nelson Mandela was identified as the "mouthpiece and mastermind" behind a call for a … illegally and incitement to strike. Bob Hepple acted as his legal representitive. He was subsequently sentenced to …

… gained its independence from Britain with Jomo Kenyatta as the country’s first Prime Minister. The Union Jack was … named Kenya's first president, with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as his vice-president. …

… to use a small percentage of land that was not farmed as state property and the population could only sell its … 1908, the Belgian parliament eventually annexed the Congo, as a colony of Belgium to be run by state rather than the …

… twenty-year treaty of friendship with Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). In the treaty, which was called the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928, also known as the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration, …

… by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations". This was … resisted attempts by other members to include such terms as "common citizenship" and "duties and obligations". It …

… of the South African Communist Party (CPSA, now known as SACP). In 1946, the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign, … At the end of 1946, on 20 October, Dadoo was re-elected as the President of the TIC. …

… was conceived by British philanthropists and abolitionists as a home for African slaves freed in England. A Temne king … slave trade was abolished in 1807, the new colony was used as a base from which the act could be enforced. Beginning in …

… degree (B.Sc.). Even before her death she was honoured as 'Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa' at a meeting of … Hare is said to have described her on another occasion as "one of the great figures of Bantu progressive life and …

… promised to return the two former colonies to self-rule as soon as it was practical, while a decision on voting rights for …

… believed that the captain wished to disembark the troops as soon as possible; consequently he kept too near to the treacherous …

… neither books nor newspapers, except such textbooks as are prescribed for the course of study which he has been … on one ground or another. But they all have declared, as one man, their condemnation of the policy of apartheid. It … an accurately detailed documentation of these facts so as to ensure that any statements made, any decisions taken, …

… South Africa. Whereas in the past the ANC had behaved as if armed activity could develop such a political base, the … review the ANC still viewed (non-violent) political work as subject to military imperatives. But traces of ambivalence … its 1962 programme, ‘The Road to South African Freedom’, as well as in 1970 in its central committee document, ‘The …

… and guiding them; * establish the Qur'an and Sunnah as the main sources of religious experience; * establish … In its humble beginning the Centre used an old house both as jama'at khanah and madrasah. The Centre also provided at … Professionals at all levels through activities such as meetings, dinners, seminars, guest speakers and …

… he did not have a wife in Springs. He did send some money "as much as he could afford after expenses In 1952 when on a two week … 'tired leave" with a bonus of one hundred rand, calculated as a percentage of one's paltry earnings. At the end of the …

… previously at their disposal, and at punishing sabotage as effectively as possible. Adv. Vorster effectively and contemptuously rejected all attempts at ridiculing him as minister for over-emphasising the security of the state. …

… "Cape Town has just been voted as the top city in the world by the prestigious Time Out … the top layer,  leaving the iconic flat slab we see today. As the Continents tore apart and collided, the City’s famous … and Maitland to the north had already been established as separate municipalities.  Many areas of central Cape Town …

… we were free again. So we sang loudly that day, triumphant as we trundled through the Pretoria streets. Some of the … request that the court should not sit on the Friday, so as to give the men from the Eastern Cape an extra day to … back to gaol? What did he mean about our bail? We saw it as a dastardly trick on the part of the government. We …

… that the 'long Building', was erected. This functioned as a temporary Church for 22 years and -was ultimately used as Stables and Servants Quarters for the Parsonage. The … the Rococo side gables. The neo-classic Tower, was built as a series of stepped octagons. The Tower fell in 1905 and …

… from every part of this sub-continent.I have come to Moria as a pilgrim to commune with Your Grace and the Z.C.C. in an … satisfy any one party, or leader, or political dogma! Even as we speak there are numerous homes in many parts of our … to the superior power wielded by the forces of tyranny. As a country and as a people we owe a great deal more to …

… entitled "Bannings and house arrest” and there it was. As a listed person, I could not become an office-bearer of … office-bearer, but I could speak on any political platform as a guest speaker, provided that I did not join the … Now when I spoke, it could be only to those present, for, as a listed person, nothing that I said could be quoted, …

… seem a childish platitude. But my experience has taught me—as you, too, must have perceived if you have pondered over … fold of Congress, so that, though you regard yourselves as Congress, I am more correct from a political standpoint in … This was a progressive step, i.e. Congress was progressive as compared with the past. Though in form Congress had broken …

… biographer, Xolela Mangcu, and Moeletsi Mbeki portray him as a Xhosa messiah/prophet/martyr. Another self-styled Biko … revolutionary credentials”. Andile Mngxitama portrays Biko as an acolyte of Frantz Fanon, noted for his epistemic … violent confrontation with police. He was against violence as a means to ‘black’ liberation/development. He was …

… of Addis Ababa". (4)  The meeting is also important as following closely on the General Assembly resolution of … on the basis that this Government needs expert advice as to an appropriate alternative to apartheid.  It wants no … a committee of experts can only produce an opinion, which, as an opinion, stands little chance of being any more …

… of finding provisions. The pilot later recorded the Bay as Chapman's Chaunce (chance) and the name stuck, becoming … and at times the surveying party was on all fours as they investigated the perpendicular terrain. The route … the road and effectively rendering the road impassable. As a result of these incidents Chapman’s Peak Drive was …