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… The government appointed Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the uprisings in Soweto on 16 June, 1976, … hearing in Johannesburg. Evidence was taken on the extent of the damage and of casualties. The commission later put the death toll at 575 … (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, …

… Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top-50 all-time players and teachers, was born in Cape Town on 12 October 1951. By the age of 17, Sally Little had claimed more than a dozen national … titles, and in 1970 was named South African Sportsman of the Year.  In 1971 she was moved to the United States and …

… Minutes of a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Commission to discuss the processes required for monitoring the withdrawal of troops from Angola … First meeting of the South African/Angolan Joint Monitoring Commission: …

… Press cutting of a photograph of houses of Glenmore township which make up a temporary township to … The first five hundred houses of the contentious Glenmore township on the Fish River …

… stage name Riky Rick, was born in the KwaMashu township of northern Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 20 July 1987.[i] He is a … is produces his own unique sound by harmonizing a blend of South African hip hop and kwaito.[ii] Riky Rick attended The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, where he …

… About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union … the South African involvement in World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the organisers, wrote a letter to Prime Minister J.C. …

… Circular from the Christian Institute of Southern Africa containing personal eye-witness accounts of the role of riot police in provoking violence in Cape Town over the … Role of riot police in the burnings and killings, Nyanga, Cape …

… Justice of the Constitutional Court, Edwin Cameron made headlines in … twelve years. Cameron was a judge at the time and is one of the first few high profile people to publicly disclose … has stated that his disclosure was inspired by the case of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was stoned and stabbed to death …

… The Abyssinian fortress of Dessie, located between Addis Ababa and Amba Alagi, was … This event happened in 1941 two years after the outbreak of the World War II . The War broke out in September 1939 and South Africa joined in support of Britain. The decision to enter the war led to divisions …

… Letter from the Cape Town branch of the South African Communist Party to Moses Kotane, outlining the state of the organisation and report on activities in 1980. … points for discussion and suggestion for re-evaluation of their role. … Letter from Cape Town Branch of the South African Communist Party to Moses Kotane …

… Letter from the Cape Town branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to Moses Kotane, outlining the state of the organisation and report on activities in 1980. … points for discussion and suggestion for re-evaluation of their role. … Letter from Cape Town Branch of the South African Communist Party to Moses Kotane …

… Statement released by Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding the progress of the Joint Monitoring Commission and condemning the statement issued by the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, in which the South African and United … Statement by the Honourable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Cape Town, 20 March 1984 …

… The Beginning of it all: Paper presented at the Black Sash National … Town on 18 October 1966, discusses origins and history of slavery worldwide, resistance, end to slavery, William Wilberforce, Samuel Johnson, origins of racial separation in South Africa. … The Beginning of it all: Paper presented at the Black Sash National …

… was meant for Jacob Zuma. Zimbabwe was an important area of operation for the ANC. This led to the apartheid … attacking ANC members living in Zimbabwe, regardless of whether they were South African or Zimbabwean. The bomb blasted the second floor of the building where Chiliza lived, but the other residents …

… Deputy Police Commissioner Lt-Gen. Basie Smit, the head of counterintelligence Gen. Krappies Engelbrecht, and the commander of the central investigation department Lt.-Gen. Johan le Roux, had masterminded a third force with the aim of making the country ungovernable. This emanated from …

… American Archaeologists discovered a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile in Abydos. The boats were believed to … boats might have been built by an earlier Pharaoh,  Djer, of the first dynasty. It was concluded that the boats were used for burial of royals. The boats boasted very advanced design for their …

… and Govan Mbeki secretly met and discussed the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the ANC’s armed wing. This group … the MK’s high command. He served as political commissar of MK with his friend Mandela as its Commander in … 1963, Sisulu was arrested together with the High Command of the ANC at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia.   …

… A former member of the Mandela United Football Club, Katiza Cebekhulu, who disappeared on the eve of the 1991 trial in which he was expected to testify, … had agreed to testify before the TRC after an assurance of immunity from prosecution. … Fraser, R (1997). Keesing's Records of World Events: News Digest for November 1997, Longman: …

… local Tunisian police confiscated his wheelbarrow full of fresh produce and publically humiliated him. Bouazizi, in his frustration with the lack of opportunity in the state under then-President Zine El … during which Ben Ali steps down as president in the face of mass uprisings across the country. The Tunisian Jasmin …

… Walter Sisulu attended a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg, a shift boss … bombs for Sisulu, presumably from dynamite. At the time of the meeting the ANC and other liberation movements were … 7 April 1960 banned. Six months later, Sisulu and members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe High Command were arrested at …

… Transcript of an interview with Professor Francis Wilson regarding the independence of the Ciskei and and its socio-economic impact … Ciskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Professor Francis Wilson regarding the …

… Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo, supporting the people of Namibia in their struggle … Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo …

… on a Social Scientists seminar in Moscow around the theme of the struggle for national liberation and the implementation of the Freedom Charter. … Report of the Social Scientists Seminar held in Moscow from 17 - 22 …

… Declaration of the ANC National Executive Committee in Morogoro, 17-20 March 1975. Calls for the mobilisation of all forces in Africa and world-wide against apartheid. … Declaration of the African National Congress (SA) Executive Committee, …

… Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Dr Alex Boraine of Anglo American Corporation appealling for financial … Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention to Dr Boraine …

… Presidential address delivered at the Conference of the All African Convention meeting in Bloemfontein. Summarises history of dispossession and military conquest in South Africa, … Presidential address delivered at the Conference of the All African Convention meeting at Bloemfontein …

… Analysis of Conflict in Inanda: Paper Presented at the Black Sash … unemployment, forced removals, urbanisation, case studies of violence. … Analysis of Conflict in Inanda: Paper Presented at the Black Sash …

… Black and white poster. Photograph of the Marcos couple from the Philippines. One third of the Philippines debt has been appropriated by them. … Myths of debt - 3: being in debt is not as bad as being in poverty …

… orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition … they consider him as being too old and sickly at the age of fifty-nine. … orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself  (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers …

… the United Democratic Front rejects the imposition of the regional services councils as once again the apartheid regime ignore the legtimate demands of the people and impose Regional Services Councils on the … on United Democratic Front rejects the imposition of the regional services councils. …