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BiographyLouis Botha
Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… where he joined the independence movement in the late 1950s. He returned to Uganda and entered the political fray …
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… Hectare Reserve, pioneered by local Landowners in the 1950s , and shares a border with the' World-Renowned': Kruger … Hectare Reserve, pioneered by local…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… running for 10 days in June and July. It consists of a Main programme and Fringe programmes, all of which are …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… an underground operation called Operation Vula. The main objectives of this operation were to smuggle freedom …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… to the failure of constitutional procedures as the main reason for the declaration of the emergency. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Native Congress (NNC) is officially inaugurated. “The main aims of the Congress were to cultivate a political …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… and coffee”¦we planted this bomb at the door of the main office of the pass office in Ordinance Road. When we …
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… at all, but in the band of conglomerate which formed the main reef. Since then these rocks have produced 40% of the … at all, but in the band of conglomerate…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… of importance on religion. This makes sense since their main purpose in traveling to South Africa was to spread the … it consumed the teachers’ entire lives,…
PlaceGordonia Division
… which joins the Orange River just north of Augrabies. The main industries are stock-farming (cattle,Karakul and other …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, …
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Mothopeng and seventeen others). The defendants faced two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of …
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… violence broke out largely against the MDC which was the main opposition. The rising tensions in Zimbabwe after the …
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on the main railway line to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the Bechuanaland … Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer…
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… Mountain . Its beautiful heavily wooded Valley became the main source of timber for the building and repairs of ships …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 May 2008. …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… is dried and worked into rolls ( roltabak ). The other main products of the area are dried fruit , dried beans and …
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… and Politics in South African Football in the 1950s [Online]. Available at: wiserweb.wits.ac.za/ [accessed …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… idea of Nation building was firmly anchored in the late 1950s when the document called the Freedom Charter was … or attempts to take over Israel. Thus,…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… the BC movement. He said a lot of sensible things in the main. Even better, his poetic ink lives in poets like Lesego … etc. This bold project evokes earlier…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… methods. This became particularly intense during the 1950s and gradually led to a stage at which the Movement … that these lines of communication constitute…
National Arts Festival 2017
… Cape, 130km from Port Elizabeth. The Festival comprises a Main and a Fringe programme, which are both administered by …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… groups fought each other over territory and resources. The chronology of all nine Frontier Wars is briefly discussed …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… In our conditions these streams constitute the main tributaries which swell the river of struggle, … the changing strategies of our struggle and the main…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… similar dialects, beliefs and social structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the Sotho…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… fought to restore rights among the black population. The main activities of the Black Sash were protesting against the … Sash eliminated volunteer work and…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… context) takes up memorisation and commemoration as a main theme. Many monuments are photographed, obviously with a … caption, this visual presentation sums…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… on the Equator in the Gulf of Guinea. It consists of two main islands—São Tomé and Príncipe—and several rocky islets, … Centuries! São Tomé Peak , the…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… is located on the Eastern Border of Soweto and is close to main Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in Diepkloof are each characterised…