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Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… few years, including groupings from political parties, the church, student and sports organisations, trade unions and … group, and was made up of various…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… canteens and force them to close. Bradford claims that the church, and particularly Christianity, was a unifying force …
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… public holiday, with Afrikaans-speakers attending special church services or visiting the Voortrekker Monument. Until …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… 1. In religion, the leader and preacher of a Christian church. 2. In politics, the leader of a government …
Mission Stations - M
… mission station, which included the mission house and the church, was destroyed. Allison and his wife fled to Natal and … 1840s, when he gave the following…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… churches from the Rhenish Mission to form an Independent church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). The breakaway movement opposes the handing…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… to court after spending 48 hours in a cell at Marshall Square. The Security police believe that he was planning to … detained in terms of the 12-day…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Congress (ANC) meeting of 10 000 people, at Newtown Market Square, Dr James Sebe Moroka declares support for united … 26, Over 10 000 people gather at…
Christianity
… suffering took away all their sins. Source: www.st-therese-church.com One of Jesus' disciples called Judas Iscariot … they give up certain foods. Holy…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… in 1838. This training college is now closed. Genadendal Church Image source The work of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek … she was 14. (Her father became…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… by donations from institutions including other galleries, church councils as well as associate membership …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the Sao Raphael, the Berrio, …
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… Cape is expropriated from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa by the government. 2008 January, A … of people invade land belonging to the Uniting…
Pedi
… most well known of these churches is the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), which was founded by two Pedi brothers. The ZCC … Kgoloko assumed power as regent. In…
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born in 1944 in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Kimberley. She studied in Britain between 1963 and 1966, before…
The National Anthem
… Reverend JL Dube's Ohlange Zulu Choir. It became a popular church hymn that was later adopted as an anthem at political …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Press. M'CARTER, Rev John. 1869. The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa: An Historical Sketch. Edinburgh: W … Statistical Survey of the World Mission of…
Islam
… Muslims see at as the centre of the world. It is a large square building that is covered in black cloth embroidered …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… centres. Dr Moroka addresses 50 000 people in Freedom Square Fordsburg 26 June, Defiance Campaign launched. Groups …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… hand themselves over to the police for arrest at Caledon Square. Leaders of the march are detained and released on the … Members of APLA opened fire on a…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… all the mission schools closed down. The Roman Catholic Church was largely alone in its attempt to keep its schools …
Learning about local history through pictures
… like the Old Slave Lodge Museum, Groote Kerk (the oldest church in South Africa) and the Company Gardens. It has also …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… victory in elections. 1925 Formation of Zion Christian Church Afrikaans becomes an official language together with …
ArticleThe Transkei
… else, the missionaries, most of them from the Wesleyan Church, exercised great influence over the principal Chiefs. …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… of the COP campaign was taken up by women: ANC members, church congregants, trade unionists and housewives attended … need for an open-ended document,…
South African and World leaders
… turned them away, but they sang ‘Nkosi Sikele i’Afrika’ in Church Square in Pretoria in solidarity and mourning. For her … apartheid. Beyers Naudé, a…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… before 1490 [xviii] . The Establishment of the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo The first meeting between … was chastised by the clergy for turning…
ArticleKey sites
… The schools were in general associated with a particular church, mosque or temple. Apart from a few schools set up by … catering for the Indian communities…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… conformity with that confession. Lastly he appealed to the Church to give him support. Well, his Church has advised him not to court disfavour by careless ……
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… until 1933. 1931 Makgatho resigns from the Wesleyan church to and moves to establish a United Bantu Church of all African sects. 1933 January, Makgatho…