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EventHealth officials launch an intensive campaign to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
… Republic of the Congo, where it was first found. On 18 October 2000 Scientists launched a campaign to find the …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… in Alexandra Township and other areas on the Reef, killing 18 and wounding 30 people. May, Dadoo calls for a broad … disobedience and general strikes against…
The Polly Street Era
… and then received a scholarship to study in Dusseldorf in Germany for a period of five years. Finally he returned to … to get beneath the surface to the …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… for 5 years. This is scheduled to take place on Thursday 18 November in front of the Mining Commissioners’s office. 17 … first time. An official market is…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… Online:http://whoswho.co.za/riaan-cruywagen-5903 (18 May 2017). ↵ …
EventNelson Mandela is buried in the Eastern Cape
… He was born in Mvezo village near Mthatha, Eastern Cape on 18 July 1918. On 15 December 2013, Mandela was buried in Qunu …
PlaceKwaMhlanga
KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th century. This town…
PlaceInn on the Square, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
Inn On The Square is located on Greenmarket Square which was a meeting place of Caledonians and distant travellers centuries ago. In 1834, this square was the…
EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
… Benjamin Moloise was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985. Moloise was accused of murdering a black …
EventThe first regular jet flight leaves London for Johannesburg
… with 36 passengers on board. It arrived in Johannesburg 18 hours later. The London-Johannesburg route therefore …
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age …
EventEmily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War
… that more than 27 000 people in White camps and more than 18 000 inhabitants of Black camps had died in captivity …
EventPolitical activist Mvulane Zacharia Bheki dies in detention
… Bheki Zacharia Mvulane, an 18 year old political activist was arrested with eight others …
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… and began the 'March to Pretoria' with nearly 44,000 men, 18,000 horses, and 1200 field-guns. The War had started eight …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… the British Empire, as well as neighbouring Tanganyika to Germany. Agreements over the regions claimed by the Europeans … in Kenya’ Transafrican Journal of…
EventThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement hosts a Concert for Mandela
… to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela on his 70th birthday on 18 July. Peter Gabriel delivered his anti-apartheid anthem …
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… Republic of Zimbabwe. He was officially inaugurated on 18 April of the same year. Banana held the largely ceremonial … Available at africanhistory.about.com …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , 13 August 1949 Document 18 - Letter from C. I. R. Fortein to John Gomas, 29 April … Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work", …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… by Cuba, the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent East Germany. The stakes were high for both sides and the battle …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… UK. She was also a guest at the University of Tuebingen in Germany as a member of the Tuebingen/South Africa language …
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… law and exempt Indian women from payment of £3 tax. May 18, Harilal Gandhi leaves for India. He breaks ties with his … 3,000 indentured Indian miners decided…
Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung
… that the deliberations at Bandung, Indonesia, on April 18 will present the point of view of the African and Asian …
PlaceHoly Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape
… part of Lusikisiki and Bizana with a Population of about 18,000. Holy Cross Hospital is a Provincial Hospital, and …
EventFormer Springbok captain Bobby Skinstad is born
… Human & Rousseau. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=18&set_id=6&art_id=vn20070601101326934C635499 …
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… On 18 January 1987, Constable Vlotman a member of the South … Available at www.nelsonmandela.or.za [Accessed on 18 November 2010] …
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… age of 10 after her grandfather was beaten by police. By 18, she was a branch chairman of the ANC and spent her life …
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
… 2013)| BBC , ‘1964: South Africa banned from Olympics’ , 18 August, [online], Available, at https://news.bbc.co.uk …
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… who saw these scenes, exclaimed: "This is like Nazi Germany"! After breaking up the meeting, the mob threatened … over to principal Industrial School,…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… not foreseen however, was Hitler's rapid rise to power in Germany. By this time, Britain and France had still hoped to … available at: www.socialistworker.co…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… forces the right to detain people without trial. Over 18 000 demonstrators were arrested, including many in the ANC … campaigns they conducted. For example,…