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… Cable from Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations opposing South Africa’s proposal for incorporation of South West Africa, January 1946 …

… Workers Assembly for the 27 July 2004, on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the SACP by SACP, 27 July 2004, South Africa …

… The Ncome Museum is opened at the site of the Battle of Blood River in 1838. The project was started on 16 …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of De Wetsdorp, which was to end on the 23rd with the surrender of the British to Chief Commandant …

… Anwar Al Sadat, president of Egypt (1970-81), is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, forty miles north of Cairo. He achieved peace with Isr …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, pp. 11 & 24 … according to the Advisory Group on AIDS in SA, a total of 191 cases of AIDS have been diagnosed by mid-De …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 39. … Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his arrival at the Cape is given as early in 1938 by …

… Pres. P.W. Botha resigns as leader of the NP and F.W. de Klerk is elected as new leader, after having served as leader of the N …

… The SA Defence Force announces that the body of an SAAF Mirage pilot and the remains of his aircraft have been found in the ope …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … 1964-65 Budget provides for R210m on defence, an increase of R52m over the previous year. The Minister of Defence, Dr. Dong …

… The occupation of the British Consulate in Durban, the Anderson visit and the role of the United Democratic Front in the international struggle …

… From the book:  The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The AmaXhosa OF ALL THE functions of the missions, that of divide and rule is the most … The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule …

… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, Sub-Faculty of Politics, University of Oxford, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Abstract: … The Black Sash: a case study of liberalism in South Africa 1955-1990 …

… Basis: This can be stated by quoting the words of a famous American writer, Thompson, "The materialistic conception of History that conceives of Man as essentially an economic animal—Communism—and the … ”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in …

… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became involved in a series of court actions, which wasted a great deal of our time and … Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs …

… A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they encountered, our master photo-grapher has … David Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014 …

… Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing to you in the name of the African people of the Union of South Africa, on the authority of the National Action … An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela …

… and was brought to the Cape. To fix a date for the arrival of slaves at the Cape is a variable since we know that slaves … made their way to the Cape prior to 1652. With the arrvial of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape we already have a slave mindset since within a month of the establishment of the settlement, van Riebeeck, was …

… South Africa ‘illegally`. Although a regular reader of the Manchester Guardian and the New Statesman at the time, I have no recollection of either his arrest nor indeed of the Rivonia Trial and I certainly had no idea at all of … Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry …

… From the book:  History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1932 … subsidised by the Cape Provincial Education Department; of these seven were in the Cape Peninsula with an official enrolment of 1 737 pupils. The schools subsidised were: * Rahmaniyyeh …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … into Natal during the first year the Act was administered; of these nearly 50 per cent were British Indians, while 1,869 Indians were admitted; and 269 certificates of domicile belonging to persons already in the Colony were …

… Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and … fact, there are direct links between the Natives' Land Act of 1913 and current struggles. The Land Act and its … rural South Africa and complicate contemporary programmes of restitution and land reform. The Land Act was not a sudden …

… Town at the Southern foot of Aggeneys Mountains, about 60 km West of Pofadder. It has been suggested that the name is derived from the Nama language, meanings include "Place of blood", "Place of Red Clay" or "Place of Reeds". Aggeneys …

… Over the past two days, the National Executive Committee of the ANC has deliberated on the Pietermaritzburg Court judgement on the 12th of September by Judge Chris Nicholson. In particular, we have focused on the implications of the judgement for our movement, and for our people as a …

… Workers Union. After four days, the mine owners fired all of the workers, who then responded by occupying the living … mine owner’s favor; the company offered to reemploy 1,000 of the striking workers at reduced wages. The strikers refused. Given the absence of ventilation and other basic safety measures, most of the …

… On negotiations and suspension of armed actions Preamble Noting that: 1. Negotiation is only one form of struggle towards the transfer of power to the people for the creation of a non-racial, … educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various …

… in English once a week, which consisted almost entirely of reading. I was quite good at school and would have liked a … fortunes made that impossible. I left school at the age of fifteen and, to help my parents, took employment in … until 1932, without any increase in wages. In 1932-a year of depression-I came to Johannesburg and obtained a job with …

… Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, … Church for white Afrikaners only. This followed a meeting of around 2500 Dutch Reformed Church members which took place towards the end of 1986 in Pretoria,  where a resolution to appoint a …

… On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had developed a 155mm artillery piece that outranged it's counterparts of a similar calibre by at least 50%.  The development of the G5 Howitzer was the direct result of the arms embargo …

… book:  Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education accentuate - to make more noticeable or … a river valley assimilation - absorption and integration of the people, ideas or culture of another society catalyst - …