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PlaceDurban Harbour and Port
… biggest Container Terminal and one of the major Ports in Africa - the Durban Harbour. The modern Port of Durban was … more by clicking on the link in Further…
PlaceArniston, Cape Agulhas
… lived to tell of the disaster - one of the worst in South Africa’s history. But the village of Arniston has dispelled … entire coast is a marine reserve, one…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… Thato Mphithi and Themba Mvubu were the first men in South Africa to be convicted of ‘corrective’ rape despite there … Annie. “Raped and Killed for being a…
Apdusa Views
… meaningfully in current events taking place in South Africa at the time; Apdusa Views was therefore a call on the …
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… without trial was first introduced in apartheid South Africa more than sixty people have died while in detention. …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… that led up to the first democratic election in South Africa was the reason that the ANC demanded that the carrying …
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… known as the 'Third Force') that wanted to make South Africa ungovernable. Mandela believed that state security …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… growing reports that the Security Forces in South Africa were collaborating with IFP migrant workers to damage …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… for her novel Maru. In March 1964, Head left South Africa on an exit permit and settled in Botswana. She was a …
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… the declaration. Â References Author, unknown, 'South Africa Earth Summit' [online] available at …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the … Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993). South Africa in the 20th Century , Pretoria:…
EventAlan Paton is born
… the National Party came to power in the Union of South Africa and instituted apartheid. The publication of Cry, the …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… was unsuccessful. His execution caused an outcry in South Africa and abroad. Protests were made in the British …
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… maximum" in view of hottest developments concerning South Africa. These developments relate to the unrest following the … Cape Times , 16 February 1962, …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica. …
PlacePolokwane
… . It is the capital of the Limpopo Province . It is South Africa's largest urban centre North of Gauteng . It used to …
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … b) Methods suggested in it do not suit tribal rural South Africa, and could not…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… trading firm. It was not long until he returned to South Africa, where he settled and worked as a stock broker and …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and believed that class divisions had taken place on … UDF: A History of the United Democratic…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… His death added to a bleak political situation in South Africa as the country was still mourning the death of Steve …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… was one of the largest anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. Although praised for his role in the liberation …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… Chris. He epitomised their dreams. He represented a South Africa they wanted to see - one that was free, non-racial, … choices - submit or fight. That time…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… I think that the Coloured races of Asia and of Africa are entitled to the fullest consideration. Our people … with glory. In France, in Egypt and in…
Early Beginnings
… 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. [Communist Party of South Africa] Dear Douglas, I am at present attending the science … slavery' . The demands of the…
Buddhism
… later throughout the rest of the world, including South Africa. Buddhism symbols The Buddha image/statue is usually a …
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… of slavery in terms of the capture of people from West Africa who were taken by slave-traders to America or … critic of the treatment of British Indians in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… Since the beginning of the colonial settlement of South Africa, successive white minority regimes took power, … to accept that it was the right of all the…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Constitutes a Cultural Landscape Communally owned and … have persisted for as much as two…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… see that day and to enjoy life and work in the new South Africa that I am privileged to call home. January 8, 2008 … the son of working class English parents…