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EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… Comrades Marathon before he exchanged vests and shoes with his twin brother in a mobile toilet along the route. They … them wearing watches on opposite…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Art Foundation, was born in Johannesburg. During his schooling years he would spend any money that his mother gave him on art materials and spent his…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Seventh Frontier War (1846-47) Sandile was defeated and his territory was put under British command and called British Kaffraria. His dissatisfaction with…
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… names of 17 new cabinet Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time ally turned enemy on 25 January 1971, while … accepted Amin who would become their worst…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Source-based Questions
General Tips when answering Source-based Questions: When approaching a source-based question, look at the MARK ALLOCATION of the question. It will…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… White trade unions. And what do see as a result of their work? Not only did they not bring us one step nearer … These forms they call "allowing the Native to…
ArchiveCorrespondence between Jack Simons and Cape Town Chief Magistrate
… relaxing of banning orders. Includes request to visit his son and daughter and to communicate with his sister-in-law. Return letter from the Chief Magistrate…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… Presidency. In 1999 President Mandela hand-picked her from his personal staff to remain in his services beyond his retirement. She served President Mandela…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs second heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital
… Renowned surgeon, Dr Chris Barnard, performed his second heart transplant operation at Groote Schuur Hospital a month after his first transplant. Hamilton…
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… fraud involving R 2 billion worth of shares in one of his companies. Later that year, On 27 September, Kebble was shot seven times in his car on the way to…
EventSouth African player Thabo Mngomeni is born in Cape Town
… awarded Kick Off's accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bucks in 1997, is born in Cape Town. … with Hellenic. An ankle injury in the…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… General Jan Christian Smuts started his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa … through multinational dialogue and co-operation. …
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… on the Vaal River. According to the anthropologist Stow, his headquarters were beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet … although Kausob himself cited the farm…
EventTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini dies in West Africa
… sustained following an attack – he died a few days after his admission into hospital. According to reports, Mashinini's left eye had fallen in, his left ear…
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
… Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned immediately to his country after a short successful coup launched on 13 … Brazil on a diplomatic mission. The coup…
EventBram Fischer dies
… Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house in Bloemfontein. After news of his illness became known, liberal…
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… has hit back at former SABC Acting CEO Jimi Matthews after his resignation on Monday, saying they expected better conduct from him. Matthews says his exit…
EventDavid Kitson released
… Kitson, was released, seven months short of completing his twenty-year sentence for sabotage. Kitson, an engineer by profession, was sentenced in December…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… fast-growing economy which creates sufficient jobs for all work seekers; • a redistribution of income and opportunities … was first inaugurated, the great…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… a means to solve Africa’s problems. The annual lecture in his honour immortalizes his perspectives. The Programme Director, Africa Institute of … Archie…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… labourers of 1860 paved the way for the youth of 2020 The apartheid government was well aware of the survivalist nature … anti-Hindu and anti-Islamic…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… farms, on the mines or doing some other form of work in the towns. Behind the scenes of the world of the … hungry mines For many young men the Land Act meant…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was arrested during the height of apartheid. President Zuma will speak on the Imvuselelo one …
Grassroots
… oppression and injustice, and building opposition against apartheid. …
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… in its Report of the Special Committee on the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… such as Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi in the struggle against apartheid is celebrated. …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… 'defiers' were imprisoned for peacefully refusing to obey apartheid laws. The campaign, which carried on into 1953, …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… party and its determination to implement a policy of apartheid. The ANC, inspired by the desire to achieve …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… was considered to be purely cosmetic. In retaliation, the apartheid government launched an attack on the Mozambiquan …