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EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… an inferior curriculum mandatory and stipulating that all instruction had to be conducted in Afrikaans created the … signalled the beginning of the end for…
EventWorld Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
… have achieved a 75% decrease in the cases of measles in Africa and are among the leaders in their campaign to … is the symbol of this organization. This is…
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… stopped and the Federal Aviation Administration halted all flight operations at the nation's airports for the first … they suspected of having al-Qaeda ties…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… a council of war on 2 August 1894 and was found guilty on all charges. He was never sentenced but kept prisoner of war … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… Public transport in South Africa commenced in Cape Town in May 1801, when a weekly … services also existed in Pretoria and Durban, but were all replaced by…
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… declaration inspired a pilgrimage of his followers from all over South Africa. About 3 000 people arrived in the area and proceeded … ‘Because They Chose…
EventThe State Theatre in Pretoria opens
… of construction, it was the first of its kind in Southern Africa. The theatre consists of five arenas, a large public … opera, ballet and musicals. Today,…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… of the conflict and the gross violation of Human Rights. All the great powers were involved as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies stretched across…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… PART I) PLANNING APARTHEID Dutch Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning transnational? … of the Dutch Reformed Church were …
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… 1940 and 1946 to 9 999. The needs of the war (South Africa contributed to the Allied war effort in ship repair … subsistence production in the reserves wage…
Restrictions on the media
… A reflection on journalism There is nothing, amid South Africa's vast censorship apparatus, preventing the country's … the world would have made it a logical…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi spent in South Africa were critical in the ‘Making of the Mahatma’. The … by it and determined, in his words, to…
Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, “The Rôle of the Non-European Teacher in the Liberatory Movement”, Discussion, 1, 5, June 1952
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … than a mere smattering of schooling and no education - all these must adequately…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … or the Native Affairs Department attacks the Congress, all politically conscious…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… also increase our understanding of Islam in Colonial South Africa. While South Africa’s Muslims are largely viewed as … to tear the fledgling Muslim…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… as the first president of the democratic and free South Africa. The 9th of July 2011 was a historic day for South … and we will continue to work with them to…
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… art at a time when lesser galleries in Johannesburg have all been scrambling to piece together ad hoc presentations … preferred Kentridge's Industry &…
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… reported on the discovery of fossil bones in its vicinity. All though many years were to pass, before it was realised … of seemingly unrelated factors…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… monarchy means that French society was governed by an all-powerful king or queen, believed to have been given … the monarchs soon led to abuse. Under King…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 After the raid into Lesotho on Thursday, 9 … slept in cars or in homes of friends. As…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… Award for Peace. Since then, the situation in southern Africa has deteriorated. Nelson Mandela and other leaders are … African polity and retaining white…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… message and strengthen its power base. Unlike virtually all the English papers, not a single Nationalist newspaper … to grow his company into a major book…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… will definitely propel our country to a better life for all especially in the life of the working masses of our … here today we must celebrate the heroic…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… diminish, if not eliminate, the political problems we all face today. I believe that a rational analysis of the … methods of struggle and forms of…
PlaceOrigins Centre
… in learning about the rich and diverse history of Southern Africa . The Centre is a world-renowned facility that … to exploring and celebrating the deep and…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
… rendered with characteristic skill, has dispelled all the pessimism that might flow out of the belief that all sparks have been drained off the Vhoras, Kolas…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… mishaps. National consciousness, instead of being the all-embracing crystallization of the innermost hopes of the … unity. We shall see that such retrograde…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… longer existed, some of which I had never heard. What they all had in common was their opposition to the Nationalist … of the Congress of Democrats. I had…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… economic and social order in a post-apartheid South Africa. Instead it benefits the few at the expense not only … can lead to 'nightmare disorders'. This we…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… I was restored within weeks to vigorous health. Of all this I kept Arthur informed. A year later, in December … My public statement had a beneficial impact,…