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BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… while she was driving. She has received numerous death threats and has been assaulted by white thugs. Janet's …
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… When the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election in 1948, it gave Afrikaner nationalists the opportunity to fully … nationalist leaders with enough white…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… Act of 1913 and the Pass laws . National Party victory 1948 National Party’s Logo. Image source The National Party ’s victory in the 1948 elections can be…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… on the outskirts of the Mafikeng. For Peter and Karabo, death came next. Whilst traveling through the area, security … police and shot himself in the head…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… given a clean bill of health. The rescuers found seventeen bodies in the 2 700 meters shaft and continued to search in … Another corpse was found later,…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. [2] As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundreds of …
BiographyLeigh Davids
… and was still active in the industry at the time of her death. Davids worked for various organisations, including …
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
… fight for social justice, democracy and ethics till her death. [12] She finished her speech by indicating that she …
BiographySimon Gqubule
… him by former President Jacob Zuma . At the time of his death, he had been serving as Seth Mokitimi Methodist …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… which consisted of white workers only. Between 1928 and 1948 May Day became an annual event, drawing workers of all … . The strike resulted in police…
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… Monument. Until the National Party seized power in 1948, this day was observed as Dingane's Day . After 1948 the National Party government set about…
BiographyRick Turner
… daughter, Jann. Following four months after Biko's death in detention, Turner's murder created a public outcry. … in all likelihood a security cop…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… been the Prime Minister of the country since Louis Botha's death in 1919. The Pact Government had to work on … professional organisations, trade unions and…
BiographyDulcie Howes
… level was only realised in 1998, some years after her death. By all accounts never more than a competent performer, …
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… property, equality, and the right to life as well as the death penalty and abortion, administrative justice, the right …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… sittings irregularly. On June 1998, a week before his death, Gumede was admitted to St Aidan's Mission Hospital in …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… to us. And we have sworn that we are leading them, not to death, but to life abundant. My instructions, therefore, are … carefully, and afterwards studied…
Chronology
… 1946 Asian Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act Death of the J.L. Dube, Chief Albert J. Lutuli in a … Dr. Y.M. Dadoo) begin passive resistance campaign …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality, finds … Broederbond policy. By the time Malan…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was considered the rightful heir to the Ngwato … as a clerk at Lloyds in 1947. The two…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… it established a network of local business chambers. By 1948 national coordinating bodies were formed to oversee the various sectors – … undermined the …
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… was born. The effect on Sir Rufane Donkin after her death was immense, and to such an extent was placed on leave … His father died the same year in March…
PlaceWelkom
… its name after the Farm; 'Welkom'. Welkom was founded in 1948 by Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, (who was the De Beers mining … the North Western Free State. It was…
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… and their counterparts later wished to get rid of the bodies, and did so by digging up and dismembering the … and Mobuto Sese Seko, who became Prime Minister…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 … Naude retain his seat with a majoriy of 2804 votes. The death of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… an increasingly racist government. In elections held in 1948, the National Party seized power and set in motion plans … of all sectors of the community in…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… rigging, 17 water casks and several broken cases. The only bodies that have as yet washed up are those of a woman and a …
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… African Defence Force in 1985, in which Mnyele died. His death was undoubtedly tragic, but the display is a crude … thick roots that snake through this realm…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won … unrest too was in evidence during this period. After the 1948 elections, as the liberation…