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ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… 1991 On 13 November 1991, Nelson Mandela announced that the first constitutional talks would take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… I was born on the 11th of September 1965. I grew up in Johannesburg in … Transvaal Provincial Administration. My work pronged me on to study further and I…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… the press announcing that recruitment was to take place. On 25 October 1915, the first recruitment station opened at … to control the crowd. Only 22 recruits…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and … of Clements Kadalie in the 1920s was the first success on a…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… of elected representatives of all adult men and women on an equal basis irrespective of race, colour, creed or … Party (NP) and the African National Congress…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… The Government passed the Unlawful Organisations Act on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May 1960, … proclamation of the SOE. Alongside a…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… has been slow due the inflating of prices by farmers on identified land on the one hand, and the falling into disuse of expropriated land given to black…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Latin. June, Passed the London Matriculation examination on his second attempt. Later in the year, he met two … but took no part in proceedings. Started…
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… of the Rights of Man, which became part of French law on 16 August 1789. This document was based on the ideas of Rousseau and the American Constitution. It ……
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA I) began on December 21 1991, at the World Trade Centre in … and South African Communist Party (SACP) leader…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… in South Africa. Historically, South Africa operated on the understanding that prisons were places of punishment … this to their advantage. The colonial…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… divert German troops from Verdun by staging an offensive on the Eastern Front in the area of Vilna in Lithuania. They … in the Middle East. 3 May Germans…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… symbol of the state is the Coat of arms. It is stamped on several of important documents which include: your birth … school and marriage certificates. It can…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… February, students at the Kilnerton training centre went on a hunger strike 'for more food'... read on Cape Schools Join the Revolt The school students in…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… supported one another in their struggle against apartheid. On 23-24 April 1979, after the formation of Federation of … Cape launched a boycott of Fattis and…
ArticleSharpeville
… On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … police, protesters began to stone…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… diplomatic support for sanctions against South Africa. On 20 March Nana Mahomo and Peter Molotsi has crossed the … investors withdrew from South Africa and…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… Africans were able to cast their vote for the first time on 27 April 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and … compatriots. Today South Africa is a new…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
… (Bombay). Five days' fast following rioting and bloodshed on occasion of Prince of Wales' visit. 1922 March 10, Gandhi: … from Yeravda Prison after an…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… of Parliament. A special session of Parliament held on 9 September 1914 voted in favour of the invasion. The … Afrikaners into open rebellion against the…
PlaceSt-Albans College, Pretoria
… in South Africa. The school was first opened in 1963 on the Struben Farm . It started with 37 boys from Form 1 and … building stood in the muddy fields of…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
… Seebach & Bach and completed in 1910. It was commissioned on 1 August of that Year. Like a number of Buildings in … Avenues. It was officially proclaimed a…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… what once was. Worse still they renamed the new townships on the Cape flats after road names of the former District Six … of the Al Azhar masjied for many…
ArticleThe Big Debate
… foremost issues affecting South Africa. Season 10 began on the 10th of March 2019 with an episode on Land Without Compensation and will run till 28 April…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… meets the Guptas for the first time. Ajay Gupta serves on the International Marketing Council from its beginnings in … of the country above his personal…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… is appointed to advise the British Resident Commissioner on the codification of customary law. 1939-45 20,000 Sotho … demand independence. 1966 Basutoland…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… near Vereeniging in the province of Transvaal, on 21 March 1960 , was a turning point in the history of … forcing the government to declare a State of…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… answered when 156 Congress leaders were arrested and put on trial for high treason. The swoop came in the early hours … - frequent meetings - the government…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… Hertzog (who wanted to help the ‘poor whites' to get back on their feet) both boosted the growth of the manufacturing … of whom had gone to the towns find…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… published articles written by the committee based on news reports from South Africa and also reprinted news … African newspaper clippings about political…