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EventNon military national service for objectors
… after South African invasions into Angola that cost the lives of many South African soldiers and as internal …
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… at the Cape, after more than three centuries his memory lives on and Zandvliet is a noted place of pilgrimage for …
EventWorld Aids Day
… in order to prevent the spread of HIV and improve the lives of people living with the virus. The day was also a …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… On10 May 1995, more than 100 miners lost their lives when a elevator plunged to the bottom of a mineshaft in …
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… there. On 24 May 1921, close to 200 people lost their lives and 100 were left injured after a clash between police …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… in 1989. She took part in the 1992 Olympic Games. Budd now lives in South Carolina, in the US with her family. She has …
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… by relatives. The exact number of victims who lost their lives in the accident while estimated to be around 400, was …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
PlaceSada
… bred in Cape Town but the beauty and sense of honesty that lives in Sada, lives in me-it’s more powerful than anything. Sada is my …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… Indeed, we have once again come together to celebrate the lives of this generation that hurled itself at the juggernaut … events of that time, we are equally…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa shaping the … production . This process changed the face…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… the ease with which people were going about their daily lives. The "No Go" districts of the past appear to have gone. … and government working together to…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… callous and criminal disregard of the sanctity of African lives” for deploying troops to some of the most dangerous … out on 13 January 1949. In the violence…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… could save our country the needless loss of millions of lives, and ensure world peace for the future. We wish you all …
Indian Opinion
… an important historical record of the social and political lives of the Indian community in South Africa and also …
Letter to Farzanah
… and twenty- seven newspaper articles, focuses on the lives of both Black and White South African children. Through …
EventNative Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers
… meant that both the Khoikhoi and the San found their lives severely compromised. When the settlers arrived in the …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… in Dutch and Afrikaans literature translation, currently lives in Australia and holds an honorary position at Adelaide …
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… neighbouring countries for weapons at the cost of civilian lives. The seriousness of the situation prompted the United …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… who had been communists at some previous stage in their lives. In May 1952 Kahn and Carneson were expelled from the …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… one, happened on the same road where 330 people lost their lives just 50 miles north of Maputo. Four rebels were killed …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Oggendblad is established 1977 12 September, Steve Biko dies in a Pretoria prison. 1980 25 January, three ANC …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… maintained a policy of non-racialism and while Steve Biko ’s views on whites in South Africa were not extreme, …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… five year ban confining him to his home in Groutville. No writings or speeches of Luthuli could be quoted at the time. … of the economy so that it can serve…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… that influenced the party’s trajectory, elaborating the lives and ideas of oft-forgotten proponents of the CPSA, and … Africa (2018), Africa’s Cause Must…
Imijondolo
… who, despite living in appalling conditions, lived their lives with dignity. …
EventDay of the African Child
… on 16 June 1991 to honour those who had laid down their lives for the cause of freedom in South Africa. By adopting …
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… Forty-six people including women and children lost their lives and several were maimed. The massacre happened during …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… 1962. During the war over one million Algerians lost their lives. When the war started there were 200,000 Algerians …
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… Americans, making it the single greatest American loss of lives at sea during World War II. Due to the cutting edge …