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ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… 36, who owned a restaurant in Sea Point, was hijacked with his wife Tjidi and their toddler in Adam Tas Road, Bothasig. … brothers were trapped inside their…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of death Place of death Home 2 Jacob Sindane ? 11/11/? ? Denilton? ? Jerome …
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… people die, or something less serious like how leopard got his spots. These stories are known as folklore or fairy … a lot of riches. Then, one day, the king…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… rights of the majority black South Africans in the nation. His involvement in the student press union, his writings in the Solidarity News Service, and his ……
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
… of Auschwitz) experience of killing Jews at the Auschwitz death camp. Source 3C In the spring of 1942 the first … pay a heavy penance for this mass murder…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concentration camp policies with this group, mentioning … lb and 18/- or more per bag. By the end…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… formed SASO as an alternative in 1968. For the duration of his studies at the University of Natal, Steve Biko was … involved in SASO’s programmes. In 1972 he…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… at this time. 1818 Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa leads all his forces against Zwide of the Ndwandwe and is seized in an ambush and put to death, which results…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… for about three years. 1832 The Sultan of Oman moves with his court to Zanzibar. He establishes plantations to grow … and export of Ivory and slaves become…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… Nelson Mandela acknowledged after leaving office that his government had not acted swiftly or decisively enough to address the crisis. His successor, Thabo…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… against HIV. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces his son has died of Aids, a landmark in the campaign against … largest single programme in the…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to … the stoning continued until he was…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… to die. Miners soon distributed a pamphlet commemorating his death: All civilisation cries Shame! Shame! Shame! On the … Royal Dragoons who was backed up and…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… the ways in which Paton uses Cry as a means to explore his political vision, illustrating how collaborative action … that Kumalo’s sister turns to…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Congress into exile in 1976. He aided the ANC through his work as an anti-apartheid musician, an uMkhonto weSizwe … Gilder from the rest was unusual…
ArticleSouth African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
… Committees. Ordinary members forfeit their membership upon death or by giving written notice of resignation or by being … further liabilities or…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… Vasco da Gama embarked on the Sao Gabriel accompanied by his pilot, Pedro de Alenquer. Vasco's brother, Paulo, … the Christian explorers, who again narrowly…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… uses the symbols of bread and wine to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ. Baptismal water symbolises the death of the old sinful self and the rebirth into…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… was a different man to different people, kind to his friends and admirers and cruel to his enemies - and since he had more of the latter, Bra Boy's … murder…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… the stoning continued until he was unconscious. Meanwhile, his car was pushed onto the street, rolled over onto its side … and international headlines when…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… At one of the events Chief Albert Luthuli publicly burns his pass, Mandela burnt his passbook before an audience of journalists.Chief Albert … and Zinakile…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… stowaway on a ship and travel thousands of kilometres from his home, his discovery by the crew before their arrival at the Cape … Reformed Church. In 1712…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… J.M. Coetzee is a two-time Booker prize winner, known for his political novels on South Africa. His style has been compared to Kafka and Beckett. He is best …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of Shaka (Dingane, 10 years previously, had murdered his half-brother, Shaka, to assume the chieftainship of the … of hindsight, it seems that Retief was…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… SA Institute of Race Relations , Bishop Desmond Tutu lent his support to the Release Mandela campaign. 13 March, The … the African National Congress (ANC),…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… epidemic followed a series of calamities that included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the … Commissioner of Police of the…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… all soon die out. Apart from loss of access to land, and death by violent force of arms, infectious diseases like … Robinson, British Protector of Aborigines…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… Gandhi himself was transformed by the struggles he waged: his first battles for the rights of a small group of Indians in South Africa eventually broadened…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… arrives in Durban from Mauritius and soon establishes his first retail business in West Street. 1885 Dr. Lancelot Parker Booth completes his theological…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… prison had cells for white and black male offenders, the death row cells, cells for white and black female offenders … strategy, the apartheid state was…