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EventThe condition of Edwin Smith, the youngest baby in SA to undergo open-heart surgery, improves
… According to the hospital, the boy turned blue as soon as his mother delivered him. During the three-hour long …
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… genius, discipline, determination, vision and sheer hard work which went into the Great October Socialist Revolution … sponsored by the imperialists and now…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… when I think how happily the people could all live and work together, as I know is possible from my own experience, … to give a moderate alarm; tell him to…
PlaceMtubatuba
… District Municipality in 2000, as part of post-apartheid restructuring. Mtubatuba Local Municipality is one …
PlaceOld Durban Brook Street Cemetery
… at Brook Street Cemetery include Thomas Baines and anti-apartheid activist Rick Turner, assassinated in 1978. Known …
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… IFP and ANC were originally allies in the fight against apartheid, but the IFP’s ardent nationalism soon proved to be …
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… town is also associated with political unrest during the apartheid era. Inextricably linked with Bisho - the two are …
PlaceSol Plaatje University
… first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South Africa . It is also the first university to … first of two new universities to be…
Classroom Quizzes
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EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… not see who killed Mr Mnyalatyo, but he saw injuries on his head. They were distracted from killing Mr Kekana, who …
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… He occupied leadership positions in the exiled ANC until his early death in 1978 …
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… (ANC). Plaatjie’s contributions to literature include his translation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Julius …
Zindzi Mandela is born
… African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… and was involved in sabotage operations until 1988. His main targets were government buildings, economic …
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… Stem van Suid-Afrika (The Call of South Africa), died at his home 'Arbeidsgenot' in Oudtshoorn. Die Stem, and its …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… years was imposed. Naidoo, Secretary-General of COSATU, his deputy Mufamadi and Mayekiso, Secretary-General of the …
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… In his address to the senate foreign relations committee, United …
EventP. W. Botha grants reprieve to the “Sharpeville Six”
… Sharpeville in September 1984. Botha's reprieve came after his initial decline in 1986,citing that he would be …
EventDr Cedric Phatudi, Lebowa Chief Minister, dies
… of the Lebowa Homeland, a position he held from 1973 till his death in 1987. Phatudi suffered from diabetes and …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
… political consultant Ari Ben-Menashe. After the verdict his supporters cheered and danced outside the court, though …
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
… on the outside and cut the South African off, forcing his left wheel off the ground. As a result Van Dyk's manager …
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… but former State President F.W. de Klerk relinquished his NNP membership, saying the party has gone too far in …
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
… the run and received a twenty-eight years prison sentence. His co-accused were each sentenced to at least twenty-three …
EventFormer member of the Mandela United Football Club, Katiza Cebekhulu appears before the TRC
… had ordered an assault on Seipei a few days before his death, after accusations that he was a police spy. …
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… (UDM) on 27 September 1997. In later years Meyer resigned his position and left politics completely to pursue other …
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… by the finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson …
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street complex from being …
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… freely translated as When we enter the valley of death). His death caused an outrage in Afrikaner circles, and was a …