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EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… 2000, it is reported that Cyclone Eline, which struck the Southern African countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique was continuing to ……
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent. South Africa has eight designated official sites: uKhahlamba … to agro-pastoralism. Konso Cultural Landscape …
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… is a Category A, municipality and is situated in the Southern Peninsula of the Western Cape Province. It has a … Atlantic Ocean to the South and West. The…
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Mr D W Auret and Mr Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde: Praia, Cape Verde, 19 March 1986
… Foreign Minister of Cape Verde to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to the implementation of the settlement … South Africa , Mozambique ,…
ArchiveWorld Vision International: what is it up to
… the real motives of the World Vision's presence in Southern Africa, in its history there are activities and links with …
EventVasco da Gama dies
… who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around the southern point of Africa, died on his final voyage to India as Portuguese …
ArchiveThe African Peoples Democratic Union of Sout
… Conference of the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), held in Cape Town in April 1962. Items in …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Introduction South Africa, called by some people the 'Rainbow Nation', a title … is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa . South…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… based in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South Africa. The town was established in 1870 and later expanded … than crop farming. Men migrated from…
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… conspire against, incite, or instigate violence in South Africa or other neighbouring countries. The history of the … Bechuanaland and Swaziland and Governor…
ArchiveReligion and oppression: the misuse of religion for social, political, and economic subjugation
… Christian Councils and Church Leaders from Eastern and Southern Africa,which took place in Edisesa, Harare, in 1-3 August …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… War deeply affected the newly independent countries in Africa and the liberation struggles in southern Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s, when the Union…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Vincent Brutus was born on 8 November 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to South African parents. His parents moved back to South…
EventThe South African Military History Society is established
… Klopper to all South Africans to take an interest in South Africa's military history. The object of the society was to … badges and other historical aspects…
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… After protests against Barclays Bank's involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new name - First National…
EventExplorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch dies
… allegedly the first person to discover gold in South Africa, died in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. He made geologic and archaeological discoveries in…
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… Burchell travelled nearly 7 000 km throughout South Africa between 1810 and 1815, collecting specimens of animals … his journey in a book titled Travels in…
PlaceAiab, Stream in Namibia
… most widespread language of those non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that contain ‘click’ sounds and have therefore been … family and is spoken in…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and … social critic of the day. Regarded as one of the leading Southern African female writers of…
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… was started in his memory by the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa to provide bursaries for Black students. …
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr Bursary Fund in his …
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
… of a progressively deteriorating political situation in Southern Africa. …
Domestic work
… who identify yourselves with the broad aim of a new South Africa, and that is the overwhelming majority: § Let us put … the Big Powers or of the United…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… I want to examine two crucial turning points in South Africa's journey through time. Neither are brief moments or … had no sense of location and property;…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to the outside world. Diplomatic ties were signed between South Africa and Vietnam…
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in … Co-ordination Community (SADCC), of which…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 493. Potgieter, … D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventThe first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State is founded
… that province. The Dutch Reformed Church arrived in South Africa in the seventeenth century, after Calvinist reforms in … Dutch East India Company, as an…
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… The flag of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) or Chartered Company was hoisted in … D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa,…
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… Christian Movement (UCM), the Christian Institute of Southern Africa and their subordinate organisations. … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…