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… We are gathered here in Lisbon, representatives of governments, non-governmental … engagement" has destroyed rather than saved life. For the black majority, infant mortality remains the highest in the … expectancy is the lowest in the world; unemployment of black workers has now reached the astronomical figure of two …

… source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its … South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was forceful and …

… Sparrow Mkonto was born on 24 December 1951 in Cradock. He left school after Standard 8 (Grade 10) and … union. Mkonto married his wife Sindiswa also from Cradock in 1972. They had one child, Lonwabo. Mkonto lived and worked … guerrilla turned security policeman) and Sakati another black policeman later joined them. The convoy turned off at …

… bid to operate the South African National Lottery. Born in Germiston, Gauteng, in 1947, Khoza attended St Augustine’s High School in Dundee, … of the Boss of the Year title in 2001, being the first black president of the South African Chamber of Business (and …

… new identities that goes beyond the rhetoric of the 1950s, in which much of our discourse is still frozen. 1 … a conceptual framework for understanding how class, consciousness and organisation interact with each other and … gender, community and structural context are considered. Black Consciousness (BC), non-racialism, pan-Africanism and …

… critic of the apartheid regime. He initially studied in the field of theology, but became involved in journalism … editor, and ensured that the World was the most circulated Black newspaper in the country. After studying in the United … difficult to create and sustain a credible newspaper for Black readers in South Africa, given the constant black media …

… Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of … in the 1970s to distribute contraceptives freely to black women. [18] Some black women were threatened with job … intentions: genocide, settler colonialism and historical consciousness in Australia and Britain." The International …

… The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both … the distribution of food, these women went on to tackle black marketeers who were accumulating food and selling it at … Durban. According to Sarah Carneson , ‘The women knew the black marketeers who were hoarding the rice. And we went on …

… to "persuade" Africans to become labourers for Europeans. In the nineteenth century, a poll tax and a hut tax were … Act was passed, which divided the entire country into "black" and "white" areas. Europeans were prohibited from holding land in areas demarcated as "black" and Africans from holding land in areas demarcated as …

… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first civilian … ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened …

… British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on 12 December 1767. Under his term as governor, Somerset played an important role in British expansion into the Eastern Cape. When the British … to the Cape Colony. The first groups of settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 …

… Ellen Phyllis Hellmann was born in Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at the University of … anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg …

… Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my … of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous. In 1927 I entered the University the Witwatersrand to study … an organisation of about one hundred craftsmen) were in law neither employers nor employees but independent …

… cavalry and field artillery to bolster British troops in the South African War. The British initially declined … Canadian assistance. Canada joined the South African War in 1899 with its first contingent of 1000 troops sailing from … QuÁƒÂƒ©bec to South Africa on 30 October 1899 and landed in Cape Town on 30 November 1899. The second contingent …

… pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New South Africa, in which the party's attitude towards trade unions is clearly stated. This policy is identical in every respect with that expounded by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, as Section IX of the pamphlet states: Labour …

… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after … band Brenda and the Big Dudes . Fassie began a solo career in the 1980’s working with producer Sello Chicco Thwala. Her … Brenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital …

… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had first -hand experience of the … was the establishment of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1894. Within three years of his arrival in South Africa, Gandhi had become a political leader, … K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa …

… Congo (DRC), previously known as Zaire. This was in an attempt to escape the vengeance of many surviving … during the genocide. Living amongst these refugees in the eastern Congo were the Hutu militiamen that carried out the genocide in Rwanda. During this time, the rebel forces of Laurent …

… attending the African National Congress (ANC) conference in the Tanzanian city of Arusha. Significantly, Arusha is the city where Nyerere issued the Arusha Declaration in 1967 which inaugurated the UJamaa Movement. UJamaa … Nyerere called for an end to National Party (NP) rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid …

… September 1897, Prof. James Leonard Brierly Smith was born in Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Province (now Eastern Cape). He studied chemistry … Oxford, he began to teach chemistry at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. However, Smith gradually switched over to … James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born …

… Chiliza, who was married to an ANC member was killed in a bomb hidden inside a TV set.  It is believed that the … to the apartheid government attacking ANC members living in Zimbabwe, regardless of whether they were South African or … TV was just one of many attacks aimed at ANC officials in Zimbabwe. In 1988, the ANC office in Zimbabwe was hit by a …

… away.  The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the City Hall in Cape Town, the place where Nelson Mandela delivered his … first public speech follow his release from imprisonment in 1990. At this commemorative occasion South Africans sang … Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town …

… was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in Kenya. He was forced to kill Elsa’s mother in self- defence when she tried to attack him. It was only … lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya …

… Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). This represented an … On this occasion, Smith led his extremist white government in breaking ties with Great Britain and declared Rhodesia a … political formations. Abel Muzerewa became prime minister in an interim government.    ZANLA declared 1978 the year of …

… born model Michelle Mclean was crowned miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Mclean had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 of Miss World in the same year. After winning the Miss Universe crown, … Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand …

… Minister of Information, Connie Mulder , resigns his seat in Parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister P. W. Botha as a result of his involvement in the Information Scandal . "Muldergate", as the scandal was … with the knowledge of then Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster , in a plot to sell apartheid propaganda with the use of state …

… was unveiled. The statue stands on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. It was sculpted in bronze by John Tweed and donated to the city by Cecil John … who was the first European to reach the Cape of Good Hope in 1487, and Maria van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck. …

…  Henry Fazzie went into exile to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their movements … and they were detained by South African security forces in Zimbabwe. The group was later transported to South Africa … Ndlovu, S.M (2004)  The ANC in exile, 1960-1970 . In:  The Road to Democracy in South …

… Tornadoes are rare in South Africa.  Therefore, the radar equipment used to predict and track these killer storms are not in huge supply in the country, making it difficult if not impossible for … African Weather Service When and where do tornadoes occur in South Africa [online] Available at: www.weathersa.co.za …

… calling themselves Madras merchants, residing and trading in Durban, submitted the following petition to the resident … have most of them resided for a considerable time in Mauritius and they cannot do better than bring to your worship's knowledge that in or about the year 1866 the question now at issue, that is …