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PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… Home to some of the rarest Aircrafts in the World. The Main Courtyard features several Memorials, including one …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… laws were committed by bands of volunteers in all the main centres of the Union. The initial stage of the campaign …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… gold mines and was fast establishing himself as one of the main mining magnates on the Witwatersrand. Through his …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… after which the walls were demolished and the kitchen and main bedroom scoured with sonar equipment for secret …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… original copy) and another settler Isaacs constitute the main source on the Zulu people during the rule of Shaka and …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… for a better life in better country). There were two main routes that the Voortrekkers could follow into the …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… more than 800 000 Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main charges related to the fact that the Bishop, refused to …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… HOUSE With regard to the so-called ownership scheme our main difficulty is that we are not in occupation and …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Madagascar and Bengal. [30] It is claimed that three main groups contributed to the development of Afrikaans: the … in 1738 [135] by the missionary Georg…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… located 15km West of the City. The FJ Sithole Road is the main road that enables the citizens and the tourists to get the gist of Imbali Township, as it…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… There are a number of further reflections contained this chronology which can be added to those mentioned in Part 1. …
PlaceSouth African Royal Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
… Sea, hence the name: 'Cape of Storms'. The Greek Revival Main Building of 1825-8 still dominates the Hill and faces a … is inconspicuously located at the…
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… South Africa. It was initially believed that Shaka was the main cause of the Mfecane. [2] This has since been debated by … Pondoland.” In African societies,…
PlaceKokstad
… its history encased in its Museum, a National Monument on Main Street, which focuses on the Griqua people ,( AS SEEN IN … Dam is fed by the pure water of…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… South Africa and its underlying narratives as her main influence. She can be described as being a product of … laude, in 2001. Ngozi cites Chinua Achebe as…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… were taken over and ruled by a more powerful country. The main motive for imperialism was to obtain and control a … by the expansion of competitive trade in…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… of over 400 organisations, with non-racialism being the main ethos. At its peak, the UDF had over 3 million active … intention of supporting the governments…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… form a developing internal market in South Africa. Their main function in the economy of the country in general and of … is necessary first to answer another…
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… in the Western side and the bustling streets around the Main Road. Exploring this diverse Area and its offerings is a … bustling commercial businesses…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… carried forward in South Africa since the early 1970s, was the main task identified by worker activists in Congress at the …
PlaceThe Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein
… Club and former Military Hospital in the Free State. The main Building was erected in 1896 and later extended in 1903. … and sophisticated venue. (Welcoming…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… plan worked and there was economic growth but in the mid-1970s the economy started to fall excessively. This brought … for the future that may lie ahead was…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… and apartheid South Africa emerges as one of the main themes in Mandela’s writings. On a personal level, this …
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… implemented by the ANC government of Mandela. The ANC's main aim in developing and implementing the RDP, was to …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… and later through the 1996 Act of Parliament. The IEC’s main aim is to strengthen constitutional democracy through …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… council. Humanism was intended to replace Calvinism as the main driving force in the education of future citizens. …