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Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born in Umbumbulu, Natal.
… Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born in Umbumbulu, Natal. …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… Archibald Archie Gumede was born on 1 March 1914 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the South African Native … to Natal and joined the African National…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed his royal throne in 1995. The car he was travelling in rolled down a cliff on…
EventHunting is prohibited in the area that is now the Kruger National Park
… On the 26 March 1898, a proclamation was published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR. This proclamation prohibited the hunting of game in the area between…
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… served his term as Prime Minister from 1957 until he died in 1966 when he was kidnapped and killed in the country’s first military coup. Balewa’s term was…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on 18 March 1936. de Klerk grew up in a political family. He later studied law and practiced as a lawyer in…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Location: back to this day in history search archive On 28 July 2004, Simon Mann, a … pleaded guilty to attempting to buy dangerous weapons in Zimbabwe. Mann…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… a post office worker. [1] Her body, which had been stored in a Clarenreich post office safe overnight and then set … women protested outside Parliament in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… of this moment. South Africa has reached a watershed in the democratisation of our society. In a matter of weeks, we expect the final constitution to be ……
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth When we talk about … the class struggle in South Africa,…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… March-May 1984 Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC In 1950 the Communist Party, faced with banning under the … an open organisation - but…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The worldwide depression, which started in 1929, had a serious effect on South African economic life. By 1930, industrial production, which was only in its…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… of emergency was declared and thousands were arrested in pre-dawn police raids. As a result the Congress alliance … Furthermore, white South Africa chose a…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Bad as conditions were in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker … of children and poverty everywhere. The place is too hot in summer and…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape. He was … parents. Stofile matriculated from…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… 0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two presidents from two countries were ……
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
… father died when he was a young boy and his mother died in the early 1940s. Zulu started his primary schooling at … his secondary schooling at New castle…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of … schooling at the St. Mary's Anglican…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven … countries all persons were free, and there were so many…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… Congress (ANC) members were reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The arrests were confirmed by the Swaziland Police Commissioner and a large cache of…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy Norman Levy … liberation politics during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the…
EventGang leader Andre Stander is shot dead in the United States of America
… Stander was confronted by Van Stetina and got embroiled in a scuffle over Van Stetina's shotgun, which resulted in him being shot. He died on the wet…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The Missionaries and the Chiefs … THE FULL EXTENT of the political role of the…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… (the Industrial Socialist League). Jewish Trade unionism in the Mother City at the turn of the 20 th century and … exploitation and poverty. Dr. Evangelos…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… of Arts from the University of Cape Town where he majored in African Economic History and Psychology. Gideon began … in Vietnam Independent…
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… Sergeant Jonas de la Guerre left the Cape to venture north in search for the "great river that flowed east to west" and … at the Cape. De la Guerre went on…
EventThe World Health Organisation confirms that Ebola virus killed thirteen villagers in Gabon.
… Thirteen people died of an unknown disease in a remote village in Gabon during the month of February 1996. On 19 February … World Health Organisation…
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British forces, was killed in the Anglo…
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… wood and iron shacks, killing between 250 and 350 people in Kinshasa, Zaire (now The Democratic Republic of Congo). … to deliver supplies to Jonas Savimbi’s…
EventTwenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appear in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act
… Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the … conspired or incited others to kill White people or…