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EventXhosa author Samuel Mqhayi dies
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 628. …
EventSA artist Sydney Khumalo is born
… and Europe as a guest of USSALEP (United States/South Africa Leadership Exchange Programme), West Germany in 1979 …
EventSA War Memorial is opened at Delville Wood
… to symbolise the unity between all nations of South Africa. … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 638;…
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… negotiations for a democratic dispensation in South Africa. In the process they set an example to the rest of the … Frederik W. De Klerk, President of the…
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… that the ANC was the principal political movement in South Africa. …
EventEric Mntonga is found dead
… of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) in the border region, was found on a dirt road …
EventPhumizile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as SA Deputy President
… was appointed as first woman Deputy President in South Africa. She replaced Jacob Zuma, who had been fired from his …
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… essays and novels dealing with issues of race and South Africa's changing society. The FF Ribeiro Clinic was named …
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… exile in Jamaica, he was offered amnesty in South Africa, where he and his family are still living in great …
EventMbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate
… Three months after being inaugurated as South Africa's second president since democratic elections in 1994, … South Africa Government Online, 'Thabo Mvuyelwa…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… became the second Black president of the Republic of South Africa. He was unanimously appointed by the new parliament on … [Accessed: 11 June 2014]|Burger,…
EventRabbi Israel Abrahams is born
… Abrahams was born in Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 1937 and held the position of chief rabbi for more …
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… the parliamentary staff of The Times. He moved to South Africa and became editor of the Pretoria News from 1924 until … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… The Government of the Republic of South Africa announced in Parliament that 18,000 people had been … at www.sahistory.org.za (Accessed: 12 April 2013)| South…
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
… for a non-racial, non-sexist, just and democratic South Africa. In the 1940s he was jailed for participating in the …
ArchiveThe background of segregation: address delivered to the National Anti-C.A.D. Conference
… and rule" and plainly named as segregation. And in South Africa, the people have been divided into three groups and …
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… On a more serious note: as we approach 27 April, South Africa Freedom Day, it is crucial that we reflect on the … a time-bomb waiting to implode upon itself…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… to Johannesburg. He was critical of the set-up in South Africa ”” very critical. He could not understand why … the roads, and on the farms, we more or less…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… organizations, who have been active in South Africa, particularly since 1976. And we’re quite keen to draw … account, you pick up a kind of popular book on…
Giyani, Polokwane
… status in the Constitution.” SABC 2 premiered South Africa’s first Xitsonga drama series Giyani — Land of Blood … in honour of the 3.5-million Vatsonga…
PlaceComoros
… . It is 3572.4 km from the 'Mother City", Cape Town, South Africa! The Comoros Nation became Islamic in the early 16th … these islands as a trading outpost…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… further investigation. The Medical Association of South Africa (MASA) gave the green light to its ethical committee … report. The finding was greeted with…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… regimes of the southern continent, in particular, South Africa and the Portuguese administration in neighbouring … multiparty election in three decades…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… consider that the universal use of language in South Africa makes a clear distinction between the two, and I have … the meaning of the term " Native " as…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… activities in the second economy. INDUSTRIAL POLICY South Africa's economy has been historically dependent on the … The task of building a developmental…
PlaceZimbabwe
… paintings , many of which are still found across Southern Africa. It is estimated that around 150 British Colonist … good at the time. They would trade up…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Regarded as the father of free press in South Africa, John Fairbairn left England and arrived in the Cape … in Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom…
EventThe UN Special Committee on Apartheid reports on SA
… this date, gave a detailed review of developments in South Africa's racial policies since 6 November 1962. The report …