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EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… After playing for a few local teams, he moved to South Africa and joined Jomo Cosmos Football Club in 2004. In 2007 … national team. Under his leadership,…
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… and inducted at Singapore. In 1910 he came to South Africa to visit his sister and became a permanent resident. He entered the world of politics in South…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa - farming and globalisation. These were not sudden … Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… next decade or two. Currently it looks like the New South Africa is heading for failure. If fail it does, the ANC will … anything it was that that model didn…
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
… Trails. Stellenbosch is the second oldest Town, in South Africa and has fondly been called ‘Eikestad’, which is … Country, are at its University …
PlaceMotswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton
… Vivienne Abrahams-Aliveriotis, the founder of 'Art with Africa", plans to start working with the learners to identify … of the Alexsan Kopano Resource Centre…
PlaceEmbassy of Azerbaijan, Pretoria
… South Africa and Azerbaijan first established relations in 1992. … Pretoria is the sole Azerbaijani representation in South Africa! The Azerbaijani Embassy…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… Government. 131 In 1987, the United Workers Union of South Africa (UWUSA) was established as a working organisation … Manganyi, Political violence and the…
Mission Stations - A-F
… are trees such as are seldom seen in this part of South Africa, except on the banks of the Orange River". ALBANY , … to the outline of the species of buffalo…
Circular Letter To Organisations Concerning The Arrest Of J. N. Singh Under The Immigration Act, November 9, 1946
… already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's prestige …
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's prestige …
Message by President Nelson Mandela on National Reconciliation Day, 16 December 1995
… to reclaim their humanity. We, the people of South Africa, have made a decisive and irreversible break with the …
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… and your pistol’ ”” and your aeroplanes. Workers of South Africa, support every movement for emancipation from …
EventJohn Thomas Baines is born
… to a coach painter at a young age, he left for South Africa in 1842 to work as a portrait artist. Baines was first … Baines recorded the Eighth Frontier War…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… all human beings to come out and to flourish. When South Africa`s history is properly recorded, the duo of heroes - … beyond the horizons of Groutville and…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… one that's fast gaining ground. Many politicians in South Africa are not at the forefront of the struggle for a better … out as attempts to gain political…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… spent her life in the service of the people of Southern Africa. She went to prison for her beliefs. She was murdered … international monitors to be…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day … Mayday has been celebrated unofficially in South Africa since the 1980s. However, 1…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… your goal is to ensure lasting reconciliation. South Africa's transition from apartheid has seen the … The spectre of civil war has receded from South Africa…
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… This was the first shipment of slaves to arrive in South Africa, and marked the beginning of almost 200 years of slave … meant that the first school ever to…
Address at the World Food Summit, 10 June 2002
… economic climate, have resulted particularly in Africa being faced with a real threat of famine. If we are to … established a framework through the New…
PlaceZonderwater
… II, specifically for Italian soldiers who were captured on Africa's Northern and Eastern fronts. At it's largest it held … Bassa Dam in Mozambique…
EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… diseases world wide. It is reported that South Africa loses close to 100 people per day to cardiovascular … diseases and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… the first official commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union Airways Company (Pty). On this … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning … from the airport. References: Student Movements in…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… in the country. The Summit proposed the revival of South Africa's three most economically deprived areas, St Lucia, … is still considered as the biggest…
EventThe League of Nations is established
… of the United States and General J.C. Smuts of South Africa. Smuts gave substance to the vague aspirations in a … of the League in 1919 at the Treaty of…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… in 1880, the twentieth anniversary of railways in South Africa. The line was constructed as result of a mounting need … the advance of commerce and the…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… Matanzima, was granted permission by the Republic of South Africa Prime Minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd to draw up a … to the Transkei within the Republic of…
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…