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… Party and African National Congress stalwart passed away in Moscow, Russia where he was hospitalised after a long illness he suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South African Communist Party before it was banned in 1951. Later in 1946 he took African National Congress …

… era. Twelve thousand South Africans had given their lives in the great struggle of democracy against fascism. Tens of … a new spirit of racial tolerance and of true democracy. In the immediate post-war years, South Africa seemed to be … come into industry and had begun to play an important part in raising the national economy. The Poor White problem, …

… former editor of the New Age began at the Supreme Court in Cape Town. Carneson faced three counts of sabotage and … and nine months' imprisonment. After nearly seven years in prison, Carneson was released on 24 February 1972, … following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was employed at the National Union …

… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation … bringing these abuses to an end. When apartheid crumbled in the late 1980s the task of reconstructing a society in which human rights would be upheld begun.This involved …

… Adhikari Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901 1 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen It is by no … disabilities that have been placed upon our fellow kinsmen in the Transvaal and O.R.C.; to protest against the curtailment of their liberties as civilised subjects in the British Empire. What other sensations but those of …

… Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe  passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and … property magnate who was knighted for his pioneering role in the development of Johannesburg. He was born in Rostock, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE COMING of the missionaries … were a product and this was not accidental. Earlier in the century the Moravians had been their forerunners and … the London Missionary Society, was a British one and was in full force during the period of military conquest in the …

… Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of six children of the first … After matriculating at the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown, Wood was trained as a teacher. In 1919 Wood began her work with the blind community. She …

… for a Democratic South Africa  (CODESA II) was convened in Johannesburg. Unlike the first session CODESA II ended in a deadlock as parties involved could not agree on an … government and a constitution. The first sitting, CODESA I in March 1992 laid an important foundation for future multi …

… 1920, the General Assembly of the League of the Nationsmet in Geneva, Switzerland for the first time. The League was an … after World War I. Having installed its Secretariat in the Palais Wilson, the League made a mark on the urban … of Geneva by constructing the 'Palais des Nations' in which the League was installed in 1936, three years before …

… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most vicious civil wars. … of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone. According to the United Nations (UN), …

… To call a production The Storming locates a predicament in the present continuous; as ongoing; as not yet resolved. … maelstrom: the storming of a bastion which needs to fall. In our present conjuncture, the world seems to be in the … catharsis. The white actor Sher (Prospero), turns to the black one Kani (Caliban), instead of to the audience and asks …

… Dr Max Theiler was born on 30 January 1899 in Pretoria. He studied medicine at the University of Cape … to 1918.  He graduated at the London School of Medicine in 1922. Theiler joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 1930. It is while there that he did extensive research on …

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who … It had become the practice for the diamond diggers to pay black workers with guns to attract them to work at the newly … financial and administrative reforms such as taxing the black population, but it was impossible to extract enough …

… Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who … It had become the practice for the diamond diggers to pay black workers with guns to attract them to work at the newly … financial and administrative reforms such as taxing the black population, but it was impossible to extract enough …

… Macassar is a beach in False Bay, east of the Peninsula. The beach is named after Macassar in the former Dutch East Indies, where a nobleman named Sheik Yusuf hailed. He died in the Cape and was buried in the area. On 24 December 1964, … at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 20 November 2012]| SA Venues Western Cape Destinations Macassar, Cape Helderberg …

… opened the first OK Bazaars on Eloff and President Streets in Johannesburg. OK Bazaars went on to gain success as a … throughout South Africa, and became a household name. In 1929, OK Bazaars was listed as a public company on the … had opened 100 stores. OK Bazaars also played a role in the labour history of South Africa, as the establishment …

… the world's first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, in 1962, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) … system that would aid distress situations at sea. In February 1966, the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) … a satellite systems entirely devoted to maritime purposes. In 1973, the IMO held a conference to establish a maritime …

… for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, met at a conference in Bloemfontein to talk about the franchise question. Six … 5 June 1899, the conference ended without any resolution. In September the Parliament of the Orange Free State (now known as Free State) resolved, in accordance with a previous secret agreement between the …

… Eugene Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on … (AWB), an ultra right-wing organisation, in a garage in Heidelberg, in the then Transvaal (now Gauteng ).  The … of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp. …

… the King’s Prime Minister, was born on 27 August 1928 in the Mahlabathini District, KwaZulu. His mother was the … He was instrumental in the formation of the South African Black Alliance comprising the [Coloured] Labour Party (LP), … on the ground that the government had not met its own Black Constitution Act of 1972 which required consultation …

… this exhibition the significant role-played by SASA in the development of South African art, including its involvement in the foundation of the SA National Gallery itself. Hayden Proud, Curator of …

… attacks by hostel dwellers on township communities, mostly in the Vaal/Reef area. One such incidence occurred on 4 September 1990, when the SADF opened fire on negotiators in Sebokeng. According to sources, fire was opened without warning on a group of people in a hostel. 11 people were killed and many injured. Despite …

… (ANC) members and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members in KwaZulu Natal. After his expulsion from the ANC, Nkabinde … accused of starting a low-level war that left 120 people in the Richmond area dead. In January 1999, Nkabinde was assassinated. Two men, Simphiwe …

… the Crimean war where she cared for wounded soldiers. In 1860 she established a nursing school at St Thomas Hospital in London. It was the first professional nursing school in the world. The nursing school is now part of King’s … the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas hospital in London …

… The minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) would be tolerated in any of the structures of the South African Police (SAP). … or to the right of the moderates is unacceptable to us in the police force'. …

… International literacy Day was first celebrated in 1966. This day is meant to raise awareness in countries all over the world about the high levels of … and capable of analytical understanding of men’s condition in the world.” … Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education …

… around the globe. According to Col Lionel Crook from the SA Legion there were 18500 military casualties from South Africa in this war. The 1884 Berlin Conference was an attempt to … this and had the bodies dug up and so the White and Black soldiers were re-buried separately. Stretcher bearer …

… of donor countries and organizations was held in Maseru. It was marked by further criticism of South Africa's foreign policy and deliberate interference in the region. The country’s foreign policy was pursued in three overlapping but distinctive settings: the regional …

… Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner.  Else and Deneys … member of the  Liberal Party of South Africa , the  Black Sash  and National President of the National Council of …