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ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
The 11th of February 1990 will be remembered as one of the most significant days in the history of the world. It was the day that dramatic change took place –…
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… Maternity Hospital, in Cape Town South Africa. Their total birth weight was 24 lb 1 oz (10.9 kg), with individual birth weights ranging from 2 lb 6 oz (1.1…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… that coalesced into the United Democratic Front (UDF) by 1983. Other processes also added to the pressure for reforms: …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… both peace treaties that ended conflict and gave birth to new constitutional orders. The first was the Treaty … This also took away the rights of black…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… Vorster died in Tygerburg Hospital in Cape Town in 1983 and was buried in Heroes Acre at the Dutch Reformed … Church in Kareedouw in the Eastern Cape on 13…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various … groups and unions. Azania Frontline, no. 1,…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… for constitutional and political reform. As a result, in 1983 the National Party government introduced the Tricameral … Conference At the annual TASC…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… this genre. The older strains of marabi and kwela saw the birth of what is broadly thought of as mbaqanga, the mode of … 1982 and we still have to tell the…
ArchiveYouth and the building of the nation
… it is here that SOYA is been formed. This is the birth of a nation of young SOYAns and they should integrate … affairs has on the youth and therein stems the…
EventThe Nelson Mandela Museum is opened in Mthatha
… his release from prison. Positioned in the area of his birth, the museum receives tourists from all over the globe. … his life. The Mvezo visitor’s centre…
Christianity
… Jesus told people that these words were the reason for his birth. People came to listen to him speak and to ask him for … Christmas on 25 December every year…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… the knot on 6 June 1963 in Kiev. One year later Rita gave birth to the couple’s son, Nikita Sindisovitch Mfenyana. In …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth It is the supreme law of the country of South Africa …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1910 April, Lord Selbourne leaves Pretoria. 31 May, Birth of the Union of South Africa with Pretoria as … mines. 14 December, a Pretoria sub-station is…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… receives Joliot-Curie Medal from the World Peace Council. 1983 Reddy is appointed as Assistant Secretary-General of the …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… classes in Marxist literature and theory. (Mantzaris: 1983: 116). In March 1917, the Indian Workers Industrial …
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… following its adoption by the Constitutional Assembly on 08 May 1996 and certification by the Constitutional Court in …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR …
EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
… Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift. Between 1980 and 1983 she worked at the African Art Centre in Durban and from mid-1983 at the Grassroots Gallery in…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… daughter in utero. 1977 A San Francisco sex worker gives birth to the first of 3 children who would later be diagnosed … the illness was not specific to…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… Pretoria. The ANC was blamed for two bomb blasts in June 1983 at the offices of the Department of Internal Affairs and at police headquarters in Roodepoort…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… the new constitution that the NP government introduced in 1983. The Constitution created a new parliamentary system … structure, as long as they were non…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… Following an African National Congress's 20 May 1983 car bombing of headquarters of the South African Defence … capital city, were bombed in retaliation on…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa Background and Focus of Grade 8- Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa The Mineral…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… 12 December 1969 3 Interview with Ambiga Pather. 25/08/1998, Durban 4 The Leader. 12 December 1969. 5 Interview with Ambiga Pather. 25/08/1998 & The Leader…
EventMswati III becomes King of Swaziland
… ready to take the reigns. Queen Shongwe ruled from 1982-1983 while Queen Thwala ruled from 1983 until 1986. During that time the prospective King was …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… pp.3-29. [31] Hutt, W, H. 1964 p 51 [32] Levy, N., 1983. The foundation of the South African cheap labour … Jeevs, A. 1975 p 4 [35] Wilson, F. 1972 p 4 [36]…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… terror attacks took place in Church Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the … ↵ [iv] 1983: Car bomb in South Africa…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… and Countryside in the Transvaal . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. Legum, Colin. African Contemporary Record, 1983-4: Annual Survey and Documents , Volume 16…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… in the 1990s and was not well. In 1974 Sheila gave birth to Mark, who she loved dearly and who grew up in an …