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… The Voice and Gesture in South Africa’s Revolution : A Study of Worker Gatherings and Performance-Genres in Natal by Ari Sitas, 6 - 10 February 1990, University of …

… Africa to sanity, nor do we feel we can be too emphatic in pointing out what a great deal of the damage which the … of the nations and peoples of the world to see the end of apartheid and white domination, and the emergence of a South … which have done and are even now doing so much to make apartheid the monstrous and ghastly reality which it is, and …

… Dr. Allan Boesak was arrested and appeared in court on charges of trying to enter a Black township … Act, and was taken to Pretoria for interrogation. In March 1985 Dr. Boesak was arrested along with Archbishop Desmond … a triumvirate of South African clerics opposed to the Apartheid regime. …

… Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich, England. Both his parents were actors. He … on Fleet Street selling newspapers at Ludgate Circus.  In 1894 he enrolled as a Private in the Royal West regiment and served in the medical staff …

… “The truth is revealed in people’s eyes. Words have so little value. You need to get … See what is inside.” [1] -The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda Speaking at a book reading of her novel Far from my Father at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, Véronique Tadjo was asked a question about …

… In January 1976, a group of 100 mercenaries crossed over from … Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) to Angola in order to support The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) in their struggle against the Government of Angola. Angola … British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war …

… On 9 April 2010, Janice Bronwyn Linden, 35 from Wentworth in Durban was sentenced to death by a high court in Guangdong Province, China for smuggling drugs. According … 2008 Linden arrived at the Baiyun International Airport, in Guangzhou without declaring any goods.  After a normal …

… former editor of the New Age began at the Supreme Court in Cape Town. Carneson faced three counts of sabotage and … and nine months' imprisonment. After nearly seven years in prison, Carneson was released on 24 February 1972, … following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was employed at the National Union …

… Adhikari Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901 1 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen It is by no … disabilities that have been placed upon our fellow kinsmen in the Transvaal and O.R.C.; to protest against the curtailment of their liberties as civilised subjects in the British Empire. What other sensations but those of …

… Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe  passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and … property magnate who was knighted for his pioneering role in the development of Johannesburg. He was born in Rostock, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE COMING of the missionaries … were a product and this was not accidental. Earlier in the century the Moravians had been their forerunners and … the London Missionary Society, was a British one and was in full force during the period of military conquest in the …

… Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of six children of the first … After matriculating at the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown, Wood was trained as a teacher. In 1919 Wood began her work with the blind community. She …

… for a Democratic South Africa  (CODESA II) was convened in Johannesburg. Unlike the first session CODESA II ended in a deadlock as parties involved could not agree on an … government and a constitution. The first sitting, CODESA I in March 1992 laid an important foundation for future multi …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Herrenvolk history books … Missionary Society (L.M.S.), who was sent to the Cape in 1819 to put the affairs of the Society in order. Cory and others present him as a political … The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the …

… 1920, the General Assembly of the League of the Nationsmet in Geneva, Switzerland for the first time. The League was an … after World War I. Having installed its Secretariat in the Palais Wilson, the League made a mark on the urban … of Geneva by constructing the 'Palais des Nations' in which the League was installed in 1936, three years before …

… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most vicious civil wars. … of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone. According to the United Nations (UN), …

… 2007 Presley Chweneyagae (22) was arrested near Sunnyside in Pretoria for driving with an allegedly fake Ivorian … the end of February, Chweneyagae, who portrayed a gangster in Gavin Hood's film Tsotsi, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud when he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court.  He was given a fine of …

… Dr Max Theiler was born on 30 January 1899 in Pretoria. He studied medicine at the University of Cape … to 1918.  He graduated at the London School of Medicine in 1922. Theiler joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 1930. It is while there that he did extensive research on …

… Macassar is a beach in False Bay, east of the Peninsula. The beach is named after Macassar in the former Dutch East Indies, where a nobleman named Sheik Yusuf hailed. He died in the Cape and was buried in the area. On 24 December 1964, … Macassar Beach, in False Bay, is proclaimed a Coloured group area by the …

… opened the first OK Bazaars on Eloff and President Streets in Johannesburg. OK Bazaars went on to gain success as a … throughout South Africa, and became a household name. In 1929, OK Bazaars was listed as a public company on the … had opened 100 stores. OK Bazaars also played a role in the labour history of South Africa, as the establishment …

… the world's first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, in 1962, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) … system that would aid distress situations at sea. In February 1966, the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) … a satellite systems entirely devoted to maritime purposes. In 1973, the IMO held a conference to establish a maritime …

… for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, met at a conference in Bloemfontein to talk about the franchise question. Six … 5 June 1899, the conference ended without any resolution. In September the Parliament of the Orange Free State (now known as Free State) resolved, in accordance with a previous secret agreement between the …

… the Crimean war where she cared for wounded soldiers. In 1860 she established a nursing school at St Thomas Hospital in London. It was the first professional nursing school in the world. The nursing school is now part of King’s … the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas hospital in London …

… died naked and unattended on the cement floor of a cell in a Pretoria prison hospital after it had been established … An inquest into his death was held two months later in Pretoria. The inquest received worldwide coverage, … that had never occurred before for a person who had died in detention. Police admitted to keeping Steve Biko shackled …

… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … were staged by the UDF with the implementation of the 1985 state of emergency and the subsequent arrest of several …

… International literacy Day was first celebrated in 1966. This day is meant to raise awareness in countries all over the world about the high levels of … and capable of analytical understanding of men’s condition in the world.” … Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education …

… arranged for the young golfer to play a junior tournament in the US. In 2005 Muthiya turned professional and a year later he made … when he became the first black African to qualify to play in the U.S. Open. … Madalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament …

… of donor countries and organizations was held in Maseru. It was marked by further criticism of South Africa's foreign policy and deliberate interference in the region. The country’s foreign policy was pursued in three overlapping but distinctive settings: the regional …

… William “Willie” Alexander Smith was born in Johannesburg on 4 July 1904.[i] Smith’s boxing debut took … won the bantamweight title at the 1924 Olympic Games held in Paris.[iii] Smith turned professional boxer shortly after … ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 190. ↵ [iv] …

… and two bronze medals from the World Gold Championships in Slovakia on 24 August 2007.  The team consisted of 26 … Gold-panning is basically an old method of gold mining. In the sport, participants are required to search for tiny pieces of gold from man-made pools using pans in the fastest time possible. As a mining method, It is cheap …