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… report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the … Control and Prevention (USA) reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia … pneumonia or PCP). This strain of pneumonia was found in patients with weakened immune systems. Later in the 1980s, …

… to join you as you mark a significant historical milestone in the history of this great trade union movement - the 25th … to their own strength can cultivate only a trade union consciousness—that is the belief in the need to unite into a … mind that SACTU, together with the Congress of Democrats, SA Coloured People`s Organisation, and the South African …

… of the Great Songhay Empire, but came under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali … gaining full autonomy and joining the French community in 1958. In 1960, it emerged as the independent Republic of Mali. A …  [Accessed 10 November 2009]| This Day in African History: 18 November. About.com [online] Available …

… at the moment for that beleaguered country’s citizens. “In Burundi you can’t say ‘trouble areas’, because trouble can be in any area. What is safe today is not safe tomorrow. … incredible, you cannot describe it, but what is happening in Burundi should be a question of morality for the whole …

… Hestrie Cloete was born in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 26 August 1978. She … by her coach Martin Marx. From 1995 Cloete enjoyed success in athletics; taking gold year after year at the All Africa Games, African Championships in athletics, Commonwealth Games and The World Cup in …

… Mancham, 49, a pro-Western leader who was deposed by René in a 1977 coup. The raid was led by Colonel Thomas Michael … ("Mad Mike") Hoare, who gained notoriety as a mercenary in the Congo during the 1960s.  The 1978 film, "Wild Geese" … a Mahé airport customs inspector found a weapon hidden in a Froth-Blower's luggage. A gunfight broke out at the …

… 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town. He completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1940 and became a teacher at the Karoo Secondary School in Beaufort West where he met, and later married, his wife in …

… and artillery bombardments from German divisions, the SA brigade refused to surrender. The brigade was relieved on … 433 soldiers, the rest had either been killed or wounded. Black people were also involved in this battle as unarmed combatants and non-military …

… at the Treason trial against the accused. The 156 accused in the trial were members of the Congress Alliance, which … with treason against the state, for having taken part in the Congress of the People in 1955, considered by the state as a conspiracy to establish …

… On 5 April 1990, at an informal meeting in Cape Town , President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela … shot and killed several anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sebokeng, a township in the southern Gauteng (then Transvaal) area, on 26 March … Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng …

… of Lithuanian immigrants. By 1863, the Jewish congregation in Cape Town had grown to such an extent that a new building … was needed. The original synagogue, or shul, was built in what is now the Jewish Museum complex. In 1905, the congregation had increased to the extent that a …

… Orange, black and white poster. Notice of forthcoming films at S.A. … Museum. List of films and dates. Street map of venue in background. …

… Movement delivered at UDF National General Conference held in 1 to 3 March 1991. It deals with the role of UDF in building the Civic Movement, role of Civic Movement in transition period and in a post-apartheid period, … Movement delivered at UDF National General Conference held in 1 to 3 March 1991 …

… a founding member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES Treaty. This … species against over-exploitation by means of regulations in terms of imports and exports and prohibiting the trade in … PAWB,  Convention on the International trade in endangered species of wild Fauna and Flora , from …

… after the country gained its independence from Britain in October 1960. The EEC came into being on 25 March, 1957, … Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium signed a treaty in Rome, Italy. Also known as Common Market, the EEC was a major step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union. In …

… Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced man, in height a little more … brown complexion, which is to say that he was neither black nor white. He cultivated a luxuriant moustache on his … devoid of Xhosa political authority, thus making him a “black citizen of a white colony”. [18] Isaac lived among the …

… seven impalas to death and cutting them up for meat in Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Witnesses saw the four men lock the bucks in a camp before beating them to death with sticks and pipes … them up. The men were arrested and charged with hunting in the park and illegal possession of game meat. A …

… Executive Committee Meeting held 27 to 30 August 1988 in Lusaka. Includes discussion of General Secretary's Report, in which South African Congress of Trade Unions is mentioned as a weak link in the Congress Alliance. … Committee Meeting held from the 27 - 30 August 1988 in Lusaka …

… of the Honourable Judge President Mr. Justice De Wet, in passing sentence in the matter of the State vs Nelson Mandela and others, held in the Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria. The trial … Nelson Mandela and others, 12th June 1964: Judges remarks in passing sentence …

… been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City … At the beginning the brewery was run by 2 white and 24 black staff members working 12-hour shifts. In 1957 the … a 24-hour system where "4 white brewers, 1 recorder and 80 black staff members brew more than one million gallons of …

… to devote himself to the "struggle", and founded the Black Consciousness Movement in 1969. Steve Biko was viewed with alarm by the South …

… South African daily] routinely avoided using pictures of black people unless they were rioting and which did not print … of apartheid through the history of photography in South Africa, the South African government's censorship … of the government's enforcement capabilities was the Black Consciousness movement that began in 1968. The Black …

… [Ezekiel] Mphahlele, doyen of African letters, passed away in Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, on the evening of 27th October, 2008 … writes Peter Thuynsma, a leading Mphahlele scholar, in Perspectives on South African English Literature (1992: … Ulli Beier, a German Africanist whose literary journal, Black Orpheus , made a huge impact amongst African writers in …

… Company. Rockefeller family is one of the richest families in the world and are said to be wealthier than some … donated $ 10 million towards the building of a museum in Cairo, Egypt. The family has carried on the legacy of … millions towards Universities, Health care and Schools in the US and across the globe. …

… Zimbabwe and England drew in in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match on 22 December 1996. England … close several times.  However, they failed to secure a win in the end. Commentators branded the match unexciting and … Zimbabwe and England draw in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match with England needing one run …

… The Government of the Republic of South Africa announced in Parliament that 18,000 people had been arrested and … detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March. The State of Emergency was proclaimed on 30 March … Following the proclamation, 11 727 people were detained. In April 1960, the government banned  the African National …

… Nelson Mandela’s body is taken to the Union buildings in Pretoria. As the body was transported from the Military … Hospital people waiting guard of honour was formed in Madiba Street near to the Union Buildings. The body lay in State for three days with a glass top coffin so that …

… 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a teacher in Nebo District in Sekhukhune and a lay preacher in the … University. In 1980 Mogoba was elected as Secretary of the Black Methodist Consultation at the church’s Annual …

… Die Burger. Besides his native Afrikaans, he communicated in perfect English and had command of Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese. [i] In his biography, Die goue seun. Die lewe en werk van Uys … done to his mind and taste.” [29] In Spain, his political consciousness was awakened and his republican sympathies …

… This groundbreaking thesis is noted in particular for its study of the origins and evolution of Trotskyism in South Africa … Social Mobilization and Racial Capitalism in South Africa, 1928- 1960 by Allison Drew, Los Angeles, 1991 …