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EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing … needed to take in order to halt what was…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… of F. W. de Klerk . P.W. Botha presided over South Africa when violence and state suppression of resistance … the field of civil-military relations came to…
EventBBC reports demonstrations at a game ranch in SA
… of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen baby elephants from … members, wildlife groups and…
EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
… was born in Carnarvon, in the Karoo region of South Africa. Latsky was known for her storybooks, which were … University of Stellenbosch and the first woman…
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… which struck the Southern African countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique was continuing to … dead in Zimbabwe and twenty nine in…
EventAaron Mokoena, SA footballer is born in Boipatong
… Mokoena is the youngest player ever to represent South Africa. He was only 19 when he played in 1999 at the 2000 … Olympic qualifiers. He also led Bafana…
EventSiyabonga Eugene (Bhele) Nomvete, SA footballer who was winner of the Kick Off Magazine Soccer Player of the Season, 98/99 &
… 2001 where he spent three seasons. He represented South Africa in the 2002 and 2010 World Cups as well as in the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. He currently…
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… prior the annexation by Great Britain. Located in West Africa, the country (Ghana) became the first nation in Africa to gain independence from Britain in…
EventThe first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken
… The first airmail ever in South Africa took place on 27 December 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew … meant that Muizenberg post office became the first in Africa…
ArticleFunders
… Lotteries Board The National Arts Council of South Africa The National Heritage Council Bateman BV Department of … Ireland Aid The Department of Arts &…
PlaceConstantia
… bas-relief on the pediment, dated 1791, ranks among South Africa's greatest works of art. Shortly afterwards Cloete … the Spaansemat river; Keysers river and…
PlaceFreedom Park
… heroes would be honoured and the complex story of South Africa and its people would be told. Freedom Park is a … ceremonies, to acknowledge the major…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… through the study of law. Upon his return to South Africa, he worked as an advocate in Pretoria. By 1895, he had … (1926), which was one of the first steps…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… was organized by white trade unions in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1922. This was in response to intensified … of Fordsburg and Jeppe. The Communist Party…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… Attorney General of Indiana. His first interest of South Africa began in 1950”²s when he went to study at the School … this time he also followed the…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… the members of SADF returned across the border to South Africa without incident. In a dawn announcement in Pretoria, … to Viljoen, the ANC members were…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… . Cape Town, Shuter & Shooter, 1994. Davidson, Basil. Africa in History . London, Phoenix, 1996. Delius, Peter. The … Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth…
Tsonga
… has been slow, but since the industrialisation of South Africa during the twentieth century, their communal and …
ArticleThe New Group
… the most influential artists' group of its time in South Africa. Two exhibitions were subsequently held in Pretoria …
ArticleWages Commission
… racialised problem of labour exploitation in South Africa within the judicious language of statistics. …
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of increased …
ArchiveApartheid under siege, 1984-1988: actions and reactions
… The study analyses the political violence that beset South Africa during the 1980s and examines critically the impact that violence had on enhancing or…
ArchiveMarxism and history: twenty years of South African Marxist studies
… in terms of political and economic changes in South Africa, the influence of overseas Marxist and related … of political repression and economic growth in…
EventSouth African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe is born
… as Gcina Mhlophe was born in Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. She is most famous for writing both stories and music … and Switzerland. In 2010, she also…
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… domination of the Transkei by the Republic of South Africa. The Unity Movement and the freedom fighters' would … conclusion, the Unity Movement wishes to…
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… Rudolph De Wet was defeated at Bothaville, South Africa by British forces. In 1899-1902, the South African War … one of the most important events in the…
EventGambia gains independence
… Gambia) commonly known as Gambia, is a country in Western Africa. It is a former British Colony, which is sandwiched … African continent, and one of the few…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo … to advocated immediate Namibian…
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… Governor-general of the Union of South Africa, Sir Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria at the age of 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… liberation movements banned from operating in South Africa by the Apartheid government. Others were in Lesotho … safe as the country was threatened with…