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ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… is unveiled in memory of the Burghers that lost their lives during the Basotho war of 1865-1866. 1877 The National …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… (ANC) in 1923 - did not accomplish much to improve the lives of black South Africans. Short of funds and poorly …
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… a link to the past because they tell the story of the lives of these hunter-gatherers. Where do we find it? There …
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… Zulu or Xhosa, so more people can understand her. Gcina lives in Johannesburg and used to be a journalist, but also …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… and Valliamma R. Munusamy Mudaliar , who lost their lives in the passive resistance campaign, at the Braamfontein …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Mbeki’s unorthodox beliefs cost South Africa thousands of lives by delaying the distribution of anti-retoviral drugs. …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… of the world. One of the main themes of Cillié’s writings is his attempt to reconcile two seemingly …
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… AMBRE NICOLSON Ambre Nicolson is a writer and editor who lives in Cape Town. Before and after obtaining degrees in …
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… our teaching and research to the improvement of human lives. …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… as over one hundred injuries. [ii] The bombing took the lives of 17 men and 2 women, of which 9 were White and 7 were …
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… Bhambatha's followers were massacred, and nearly 600 lives were shed. Bhambatha's body was decapitated. Several …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… accusations, the French claimed to have saved thousands of lives through Operation Turquoise where they established a …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… first free, democratic elections. Part of his legacy lives on in the form of Mandela Day (18 July) and its 67 …
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… empowerment of ordinary people to take care of their own lives. But the way in which professional skills are … issues where decisions are made which concern…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
… we have agreed that issues pertaining to and affecting the lives of women have to be integrated into the comprehensive … women on this day, we remember Gail…
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… there are others who are as human as they, who lead decent lives and are certain of even better lives in future, whatever other problems they experience. ……
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… their convictions they are prepared to pay with their own lives. These men, women and children whose lives are massacred in the struggle for liberation are…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina Buenos Aires, 23 July 1998
… rights in order to heal our nations;and to improve the lives of our people through development within the … unless they also bring concrete improvements in…
Address on the Occasion of the Torch Handing Over Ceremony, “From Rio to Johannesburg” , 25 June 2002 Rio De Janeiro
… people can change and that it is possible to change the lives of the poor. We also must believe that it is possible … agenda of hope. Let us decide on a…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… the first to be murdered under the new laws. Steve Bantu Biko’s case is notorious. A white newspaper editor, Donald … their pensions and golden handshakes…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… in his native Gikuyu and then translated into English. His writings were powerful enough to lead to his arrest and …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… agriculture changed the landscape in Britain and his writings are still useful because of this. He found a long …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… early consolidation in his 14th-century historical writings. 4 The empire was governed through a sophisticated …
PlaceCurries Fountain Sports Development Centre
… Fountain Sports Development Centre aims to enrich the lives of the people of Kwa-Zulu Natal, particularly within …
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… to the horrific consequences of war on the dignity and lives of people, including those not necessarily …
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official and legal investigation done …
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… is referred to as the Lockerbie bombing, which claimed the lives of 270 people. Initially, a bomb attack had been ruled …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… highly gifted and creative foursome enriched each other’s lives, and the intellectual and artistic life of the school. …