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EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… that around 800 million people in the world are suffering from hunger, with many well-developed nations in the world …
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… Â An estimated 60,000 delegates and heads of government from over 170 countries gathered for the World Summit on …
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… fiercest challenges to his presidency at the March poll from Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan … (2002) ' African pressure seen too weak to…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… wars. However, the competition has taken place every year from 1968 to the present day. …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… Africa. Gordimer has been awarded fifteen honorary degrees from universities all over the world and she founded the … ‘The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 ”“…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… while his pro-British approach further alienated him from the Afrikaners. The heaviest blow to his government came … pp. 406-411.| New World Encylopedia, …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… conference was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 12 to 15 September 1998 to mark the 80th anniversary of …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… Despite fierce counterattacks and artillery bombardments from German divisions, the SA brigade refused to surrender. …
EventAnna Neethling Pohl, South African actress and author, is born
… became a film actress and the first female broadcaster from 1935 and contributed to folkfeeste (National festivals) …
EventAlan Paton is born
… born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province. Paton graduated from Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further to study at …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… instructing the British to withdraw their soldiers from the border of the Transvaal. When the British failed to …
EventKing George VI is born
… the country. King George was not the first and last person from the British Royal house to visit South Africa. In 1925 …
Zastron
… J.H. Brand, President of the Orange Free State Republic from 1864 to 1888. Zastron was laid out in 1876 on Jan …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. Sisulu, better known as Lungi, was … (2008), ' Mlungisi Sisulu to be buried on…
EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… life, he stayed in the disguise that he had used to run from the law - clothes belonging to his sister. It is said …
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… However, it was alleged that this happened under pressure from the Whites and Kausob's relative Decoie (Danzer), a …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… Immediately after the incident, rescue teams arrived from other mines in the region and boreholes were drilled … Pogrund B., (2010), The 435 SA miners who…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Some Doubts about 'Indigenous Knowledge', And The Argument From Epistemic Injustice The following panel of experts will …
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… ‘Nelson Mandela`s Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-60’from African National Congress [online] Available at …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… unreservedly accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Despite the negative response from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Gatsha … 1995, p.39846.| SAHO, How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises…
EventCPSA is founded
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded …
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… now so clear cut as to admit of no confusing assistance from our friends of the liberal paternalistic outlook who … This has sometimes provoked the cry, "oh,…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… membership and ensuring that it also includes the workers from the construction industry as part of its membership. … Communist Party and the progressive…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… Abacha Government and approved the suspension of Nigeria from the Commonwealth. Thereafter, despite strong … still had a small challenge to address. We had…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, last year, we quoted from a tract written by Pliny the Roman, during the first … less while your offspring multiply; your…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… the dim mists of history, there is also the reality that, from here, there issued decisions which imposed on my own … certain that you will play your part in…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… demanding our release very clearly. We drew inspiration from this. I knew from the very first day of our incarceration that in the end … are confident that…