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ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… for a mere five years, was its crucial role in giving birth to a movement that would kick-start the dismantling of … an interracial and ecumenical body,…
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…
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…
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…
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: …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR …
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… following its adoption by the Constitutional Assembly on 08 May 1996 and certification by the Constitutional Court in …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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]…
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…
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…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… patients), a 26 bed inpatient unit and 20 bedded low birth weight neonatal unit (including 6 KMC beds). Paediatric … September 1981, Unit 4 on 1 July 1982,…
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 …
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 …
Mandela: Message to India
… of our people the moment of our own liberation and the birth of a new South Africa free from the scourge of racial …