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EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… Levinsky, of the University of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October … born in the Lethuania/Poland area and…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… art at the Westminster School of Art. He returned to South Africa in 1935 before leaving again, this time for Paris, … description for his work. Described by…
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… was born in Ramsgate, England in 1882. He came to South Africa with the intention of only staying for six months but … 1922, spent 14 years at home, but…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… nun’ who was the first sister to be arrested in South Africa. Her threat to the Apartheid state was evidenced in … Jacob Zuma paid tribute to her saying that…
EventLalla Hirayama, the Japanese-born South African television personality is born
… 1988. At the age of six, her family immigrated to South Africa. Lalla is a South African “It” girl.[i] She is a … was also a commentary booth presenter for…
PlaceLiberia
… of free blacks in the United States by resettling them in Africa. The resulting state of Liberia would become the … time. In 1818 the Society sent two…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National Congress(ANC) was … to expel the ANC from its territory…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… Malan were the most prominent White politicians in South Africa. In 1933 Hertzog and Smuts formed an alliance that … the Second World War broke out in 1939…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… the arts council of Great Britain. On returning to South Africa Nellie duToit won an overseas scholarship for the … of Alessandro Rota's National Opera…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… years later he founded the Christian Institute of Southern Africa (CI), which was aimed at promoting inter-racial … to financially support liberation…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… After becoming Prime Minister of South Africa in 1966, John Vorster met with Hendrik van den Bergh, … it that Soviet Russia could potentially infiltrate…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… to Southern African Development Community (SADC) and South Africa, Judge Pius Langa the Deputy President of the South … resulting in the flight of some…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… residence for the Governor General of the Union of South Africa from 1942. In 1947, King George VI, his wife and two … After the establishment of the…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… International Women's Day is not celebrated in South Africa. Since 1994, Women's Day is celebrated with a public holiday on the 9th of August. On this day,…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… and the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA). What relevance, if any, do these … discussions have for contemporary discussions…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts organisation Multistory in … of Cape Town, 14 May 2016 Goldblatt is…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… to speak into the conversation of liberation movements in Africa post supposed Independence, how they are complicit in … accounts as well as our current…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… what it means to be coloured in post- apartheid South Africa. It argues that coloured identities are a valid part … Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0136-5 Who is…
EventMaxwell Mlilo, South African actor, dies of diabetes
… at: http://vcmstatic.sabc.co.za [Accessed on 28 May 2012] Africa News Search - Articles for 06/24/2006 South Africa: SA actor, author succumbs to diabetes …
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… was issued, but the court learned that she had left South Africa. In 1950 the ban on "mixed" marriages was followed by … White and other races became a…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… to arrest the leader of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM). In retaliation students … 16 uprising. This event is recognised…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… traced to an accord agreed upon by Cuba, Angola and South Africa. The reason that these particular parties were … independence is that Namibia was a…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes … to introduce tough economic sanctions…
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… in Davos, Switzerland, predicted economic growth in South Africa, boosted by infrastructure spending and low interest … With rates at a twenty-four year low…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Uprising, Tutu supported an economic boycott of South Africa. The boycott became successful as disinvestments took … up to deal with the atrocities of the…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… causa) degree, conferred by the University of South Africa, in recognition of his keen interest and deep … sciences, social welfare, education and culture in…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… cause in Anglo-Boer War 2, the family immigrated to South Africa in 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South Africa, many of whom were soccer enthusiasts. Together with … P. (2004). Laduma! Soccer, Politics…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… world cup in Germany. The same year, he took part The Africa Cup of Nations. In 2010, Adebayor briefly retired from … he and his team’s bus were attacked on…
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… on 24 February 1972, following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was … of Teachers in London. The Carnesons returned to…