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EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… after which the walls were demolished and the kitchen and main bedroom scoured with sonar equipment for secret …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… original copy) and another settler Isaacs constitute the main source on the Zulu people during the rule of Shaka and …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… for a better life in better country). There were two main routes that the Voortrekkers could follow into the …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… more than 800 000 Tutsi and sympathetic Hutu dead. The main charges related to the fact that the Bishop, refused to …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… HOUSE With regard to the so-called ownership scheme our main difficulty is that we are not in occupation and …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in … works dealing with student radicalism and unrest in the 1960s, encompassing…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… were taken over and ruled by a more powerful country. The main motive for imperialism was to obtain and control a … by the expansion of competitive trade in…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… of over 400 organisations, with non-racialism being the main ethos. At its peak, the UDF had over 3 million active … intention of supporting the governments…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… South Africa and its underlying narratives as her main influence. She can be described as being a product of … laude, in 2001. Ngozi cites Chinua Achebe as…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… form a developing internal market in South Africa. Their main function in the economy of the country in general and of … is necessary first to answer another…
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… in the Western side and the bustling streets around the Main Road. Exploring this diverse Area and its offerings is a … bustling commercial businesses…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… and apartheid South Africa emerges as one of the main themes in Mandela’s writings. On a personal level, this …
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… implemented by the ANC government of Mandela. The ANC's main aim in developing and implementing the RDP, was to …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… and later through the 1996 Act of Parliament. The IEC’s main aim is to strengthen constitutional democracy through …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… council. Humanism was intended to replace Calvinism as the main driving force in the education of future citizens. …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… then sent Helen Joseph and Bertha Mashaba on a tour of the main urban areas, accompanied by Robert Resha of the ANC and …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… The novel concludes with the murder of Udomo, the main character who has come back to his African homeland in …
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… Cape. IMAGE: San figure gaining great power from his main god. MEANING: Power from the god to benefit their …
PlaceSouth African Royal Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town
… Sea, hence the name: 'Cape of Storms'. The Greek Revival Main Building of 1825-8 still dominates the Hill and faces a … is inconspicuously located at the…
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
PlaceKokstad
… its history encased in its Museum, a National Monument on Main Street, which focuses on the Griqua people ,( AS SEEN IN … Dam is fed by the pure water of…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… Coloured Convention movement which has the backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion. A substantial European body … have yet to hear from this most…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the apartheid state's … Africa, a campaign based on black…
PlaceThe Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein
… Club and former Military Hospital in the Free State. The main Building was erected in 1896 and later extended in 1903. … and sophisticated venue. (Welcoming…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… me over approximately four years of my imprisonment in the 1960s. I had enough time on my hands to reflect on this and … Smuts, causing Hertzog’s National…
South African and World leaders
… she was constantly harassed by the Security Police. In the 1960s the ANC moved toward the armed struggle. Umkhonto we … citizen of a country has or should…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Madagascar and Bengal. [30] It is claimed that three main groups contributed to the development of Afrikaans: the … in 1738 [135] by the missionary Georg…