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PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… African institution, back in 1795 four years after Wesley’s death when Methodism was proclaimed as a separate … occupied the Cape of Good Hope . It was from…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams … what is now known as the Gauteng…
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
… reconciliation and peace in South Africa. Its stated mission is to bring reconciliation and peace in South Africa. … and work towards reconciliation in South…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… clash marked a turning point in the European colonial mission known as the Scramble for Africa . This battle is … Italian). The controversial 1889 treaty…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… in the Union of South Africa". It rejected South Africa's contention that the matter was within the domestic … The General Assembly decided - by 67 votes to…
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… began selling apples and peanuts at soccer games and train stations. …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… including the Soweto Committee of Ten , Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) , the Labour Party , the South African … death sentence for attacks on Orlando…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… in the television show, Melrose Place and the film, Who’s the Boss), used her Twitter account (a social media … Against Gender-Based Violence” (NCGBV). [20] …
PlaceOttery
… part of the Wynberg to Khayelitsha route. Minibus taxi's pass through Ottery on Ottery Road, en route to Wynberg … on fire on the train between Ottery and…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… the role of women in those cultures. How did Mansa Musa's journey change Mali's position in the eyes of the world? How did Mansa Musa … Mali? Why did Europe…
PlaceGriquatown
… the Koranna and Tswana people. Encouraged to do so by the mission station here, the Chaguriqua renamed themselves … known for semi-precious stones like the…
EventIEC extends election dates
… complaints about poor arrangements at some polling stations in South Africa's first democratic election, President F.W. De Klerk approved …
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which more than 20 collieries operate. During the South African War … host a variety of recreational activities…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… pretends to love me with a deceitful smile.” His father’s first wife had four sons and three daughters. His father, a … died when Zuma was a young boy…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… to the public across Europe, and by the mid 1800’s they were no longer privately run and governments had sole … happening. The sales of radios and the…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… and his accomplice, Cyril Mbatha, at Madikizela-Mandela’s house in Diepkloof, Soweto, shortly before the murder of … as we would be supplied with firearms to…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… grazing. There was also communal grazing land for everyone's livestock. The Xhosa's most precious possession was their … and lived among the local people…
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon's previous 'Jesus' comments
… than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… liberation movement FRELIMO and Independent Mozambique's First President, he was killed in a plane crash in October … to contact the Komatiepoort police from…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… regional, and branch level must make sure that CSF's are established and function adequately. 16. Noting that the location of police stations continues to…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… discovered she was pregnant; she married her unborn child’s father, Gooli. In 1950, at the young age of eighteen, … to read and write [xviii] (Miller, 2000)…
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… simultaneous meteorological observations from a network of stations undertaken on an international basis. …
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… a mathematician, a lecturer, an advocate of women's empowerment, an author, a documentary filmmaker, and a … Zarina Maharaj married the first time at the age…
CAPS Grade 6: The Transatlantic Slave Trade - term 2
… owners o Rebellion against slavery o Nat Turner’s revolt 1831 o Joseph Cinque and the Amistad mutiny 1839 … other slaves to escape o The story of…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… a number of strikes. 1943 - He confronted General Smuts's Pegging Act, the first South African Act passed by the … the detainees were temporarily released…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… an anti-pass campaign for ratification by the organisation's first annual conference in December. The conference met in … at home and surrender for arrest at…
EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo's Bar on the Durban beach. An ANC's arm wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cell, led by Robert … was a…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… and weird people lived in other parts of the world. People’s religious beliefs were more important to them than the … plague and the consequences Read this…
List of deaths in detention
… Mayekiso, Caleb 18. Shivute, Michael 19. Monakgotla, Jacob 20. Haroon, Abdullah (Imam) 04/02 28/02 10/03 01/06 17/06 … Bayempin 47. Biko, Steve 48. Malaza,…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… the year, he met two theosophists with whom he read Arnold's The Song Celestial. Invited to read the original Gita with … Besant. Read Mme. Blavatsky's…