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ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… thought about only after National Party (NP) victory in 1948. In the 1830s when some Afrikaners left the Cape on the … when one examines commemorations of…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… class. Schwarz’s first political engagement came in the 1948 election, when he campaigned for the incumbent United …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… Party took control of the South African government in 1948 and officially systematized the segregation that defined … manipulative “notwithstanding that…
BiographySally Gross
… South Africa” (ISSA), which she directed up until her death. Gross died alone on February 14, 2014. Up to her last …
BiographyDavid Bruce
David Bruce received a call-up notice from the South African Defence Force (SADF) in July 1987. His choices were two years in the army, exile, or six years in…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… a steady drip of stories of white farmers beating to death black men and then getting away with murder by legal … died of a massive heart attack ten months…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… sadly from the grave. Two years after their mother’s death Smiesing’s brother Frans van Leeuwen entered the VOC … the knowledge of books. Ironically at the…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… Johanna Mamagobo, passed away after a long illness. Her death affected him deeply, since he was unable to pay his …
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading …
BiographyManiben Sita
… her mother lived together in Laudium until her mother’s death in 1980, after which she lived alone. She also …
BiographyMary Moodley
… and grievers sang freedom songs – in accordance with her death-bed request she made to Naidoo. Today there is a …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… The 87-year-old nun died on 5 September. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in … convent walls made such a deep impression on…
ArticleTuberculosis
… disease [3] . In South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death, and has been for the past two decades [2] . From 1997, … causing a general state of illness,…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… Following an international campaign led by international bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African … the Bloemfontein Appeal Court commuted…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… the Nationalist government on its assumption of power in 1948 in order to safeguard and perpetuate that power in the … that repression was not exercised in…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… when Mpofu was still a teenager. Before his untimely death, he was a labourer at Wilson Rowntree sweets factory in … by Alan Paton, it was originally…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… a place to stay in her home in Conakry shortly before his death. Mashinini died under mysterious circumstances in 1990. …
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… Island. While in jail, he received news for his daughter’s death. During the last week of his imprisonment he was …
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by … were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… huge pyramids that eventually would contain their embalmed bodies and worldly riches for the after-life. Those who built … the upper classes with the…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… were awarded in 1901, on the 5-year anniversary of his death. The funds and assets that are made available for the … of living organisms. Our understanding…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… of the Umgeni (uMngeni) River burst after heavy rains. The death toll would have been much higher if it were not for the … cats and dogs trying to get aboard…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… lb and 18/- or more per bag. By the end of 1901, when the death rate peaks, more than 6 000 accept employment in the … many civilians died outside of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after which he instituted a range of … "The Economic Policy of The Soviet By Isaac…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… dealt with “cases of illness, sickness, poisoning, sudden death, lost property, failure of crops, epidemics of disease … The colonial government made no…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… petty criminals” that were targeted. They announced the death toll at 61 but doctors reported it at 128. Doctors also … injured and expected many to still be…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… a period of historical transition. Following the death of Cetshwayo in 1883, the British High Commissioner in … and Gumede’s friendship would last until the…
BiographyRajes Pillay
… matriculated in the early 1960s. Following her father’s death in 1958, the family resettled in Natal. She was denied …
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… due to a heart attack. Flynn was born on 13 December 1948, and was educated at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, … Loman in the South African production of…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… famous Treason Trial of 1956-61. The government sought the death penalty for treason and, as oppression intensified, …