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… dream and that of his organisation - taken as far back as 1942 - to grow the ANC membership to one million, members of the media are reminded of the … Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011 …

… in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the … News collapsed in 1885 and he left for Australia, only to return in 1895. Economic conditions had improved, and he … visited Kimberley, the Witwatersrand and Rhodesia. A Dandy back from the Mines presumably dates from this period. He …

… in detention she was beaten and tortured in an attempt to gain information, but she kept silent. After three months she was released, to find that she had been expelled from her school, but her … unconscious. She was then taken to hospital and brought back to her cell. On a second trip to the hospital she …

… Bafana, under mentorship of Coach Trott Moloto, lost 0-2 to Nigeria in the semi-final African Cup of Nations (AFCON) … at the Johannesburg International Airport on their trip back from the games, co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria. … Bafana Bafana loses to Nigeria …

… Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's … by the government with their belongings loaded onto the back of police vans. After the removals Sophiatown was …

… Elsies River then in Nyanga East, but in 1975 was sent off to the Transkei ( Eastern Cape ) to escape the dangerous influences of township living. The … own samp was marvelous. Two years later however she was back in Cape Town, where she lived through the 1976 student …

… market. It was during this time that he was introduced to a form of payment in cheap wine known as the “tot system”, … Barely 13 years old and in short pants, he organised a strike against the low pay and he was chased from the farm at … During his latter school years, Issel’s mother moved to Johannesburg after which he ended up in Boksburg. The …

… 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he … Zwelinzima Njongwe. In mid-1954 he was banned, forbidden to attend gatherings for two years, and ordered to resign … to him is Nelson Mandela. Robert Matji, standing at the back on the right. Sitting in front of him is Mrs. Connie …

… The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic …

… The strike crafts SAS Kobie Coetzee, P.W. Botha and Frederic …

… was regarded as a grey area community of people who came to be classified during the Apartheid years, as ‘coloured’ … childhood, aged 4 in the 1950s when Tariq’s mother had her back to the wall she was forced to place an advert in the … footprint and legacy. Tariq sees his roots as being bound with the pre-colonial village of the Goringhaicona …

… Calvin Thusago, a reporter for the SABC, was stabbed to death by a mob of youths as he and a colleague were on their way back from Sharpeville where they had filmed the desecration … was also stabbed, but survived with serious injuries to his hands, arms and back. Members of the ANC Youth League …

… in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first democratic … were shot and wounded by local police. A public servants' strike was also called. Mangope dismissed the staff of the … armed support from the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) to quell the uprising. This prompted the intervention of the …

… Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His … Party of South Africa (CPSA) [in 1953, the name changed to South African Communist Party (SACP)] from the 1940s. As … trade union rights for all workers including the right to strike; and one-person, one-vote in free and democratic …

… “Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities built around fossil fuel … a socially owned renewable sector and national grid as far back as 2011, and that the depiction of unions and workers as …

… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a British citizen, pleaded guilty to attempting to buy dangerous weapons in Zimbabwe. Mann, … Mercenary Mann faces 10 year jail for coup attempt linked to Mark Thatcher [online] Available at: www.mail-archive.com …

… Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the non-violent resistance struggle against apartheid in … Africa . Not only did Luthuli become the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but it was also the …

… , Transvaal Province (now Gauteng ). Her mother never went to school, while her father worked as a painter but was … employer. When her mother died in 1971, her father had to look after the family on a salary of just R20 a week. … , at her home where her political consciousness started to mature. Being in such spaces, learning about the Black …

… the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) aimed to contest was the 1913 Land Act, an urgent issue that … SANNC sent petitions and deputations, but were not able to prevent the passing of the Land Act. Another deputation was sent to London and was received by the Secretary of State for …

… Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao , a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry first by the … of both Khoikhoi and Dutch culture; as she passed back and forth between one society and the other, she …

… Sithole. Image source The challenge of Black Consciousness to the Apartheid state See: … the 1980s By the 1980s the apartheid system was beginning to weaken. It could no longer keep black people in their … the white cities. The Bantu Homeland, sometimes referred to as the Bantustan, were pisions of areas of land that were …

… In a four-legged creature, the foramen magnum is further back. Dart classified the specimen as Australopithecus … Man in 1912 supported this view – until it was revealed to be a hoax. In 1936 and 1947, more Australopithecus fossils …

… Gymnasium. School children from all over were bussed in to the Goodwood Showground for the 10 year celebration of the … When ‘Die Stem’ was sung he organised for a handful of us to remain sitting. When were quickly yanked away by some … and made to go and clean up the rubbish at the back of the stadium for the rest of the event, but it was …

… The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape. They got their food by hunting wild … that they did not settle in one place. They moved around to find different plant foods at different times of the year, … water resources. They believed that all the land belonged to the community. They hunted using arrows coated in poisons …

… Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before … relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have been averse to being in the public eye, particularly as she was not … be our home, or let go of the idea that we might move back to Umtata. She believed that once I was back in the …

… some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC leadership had … of not using violence. Secondly, this group objected to clauses in the Freedom Charter, charging that they … Alliance. It is commonly held that this was reference to the Ongress of Democrats (COD). …

… father died while he was young, and later he was forced to leave school because he could not afford to pay for his fees.  Mahlathini then found work in a soft … Nkabinde fell out with Bopape over his treatment and went back to EMI. The Makgona Tsohle Band moved to record with an …

… High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to Johannesburg after secondary school, hoping to study social work at the University of the Witswatersrand. … in 1998, then spent several years teaching until coming back to South Africa in 2007. He became a lexicographer, …

… in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was exposed to all kinds of music and furthered his guitar talent on a … Cyril Magubane. For Sipho, this was his first introduction to jazz and its masters, like Wes Montgomery . He learnt to … African Music Awards (SAMAs). By 2000 Sipho had moved back to KwaZulu-Natal, where he taught music and performed …

… and farmhand. He later applied his farming experience to win abroad support as minister of land affairs after 1994. … In 1983 December he was arrested, he pleaded guilty to possessing banned literature after the government dropped … over smallholders, but he remained in Parliament as a back-bencher. In 1994 his wife was elected to the Gauteng …