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… The Act was to provide for the establishment of certain Bantu authorities and to define their functions, to abolish the Natives Representative Council, to amend the …

… Africa. (Soweto was a separate municipality from 1983 to 2002, when it was amalgamated to the City of Johannesburg.) It is one of the 40 Gauteng … lad, John Albert Baragwanath , arrived on the gold fields to make his fortune. The surname "Baragwanath" was derived …

… Department of Education The nineteenth century deserves to be called a turning point because of the significant … issues focuses on the causes of the Mfecane. The tendency to explain nineteenth-century South African history in terms … of Europeans has been debated as a problem leading to European-centred explanations of the past. It has also …

… The Christian Institute appealed to Prime Minister John Vorster, asking him to reconsider the withdrawal or confiscation of the passports … that of Dr. Beyers Naude. Naude was refused a passport to travel to London to address the Royal Institute of … a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …

… In this context, we send our congratulatory messages to members and supporters of our glorious movement for this greatest achievement. The ANC continues to inspire the confidence of the great majority of our people … in Mangaung. We are expecting full capacity and are ready to accommodate overflow in the adjacent grounds. The main …

… German history, art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia … has a quiet charm under cobalt blue skies. All visitors to this coastal town in Namibia are encouraged to walk around and have a look at the colonial buildings and …

… and his mother Mrs F.M.L. Haenggi founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art.  The original location was next to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the … at Hyde Park Corner and another on Hollard Street, close to the then Johannesburg Stock Exchange , Sandton. The new …

… built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for … Town Harbour had become a stopover for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India and the Far East on their quest for … 30 Vessels. As a consequence, Lloyd's, of London refused to cover Ships Wintering in Table Bay . On a Sunny September …

… actors and musicians in Johannesburg . The objective was to work with artists in their various forms as well as to resolve legal issues of ownership and distribution.  The … organisation, where each of the heads of departments was to write something about their particular discipline for …

… the LLA was operating from its soil. This claim turned out to be valid. Ntsu Mokhehle, then leader of the BCP, was based in Diepkloof, Soweto and was believed to have been directing LLA operatives from there. However, South Africa continued to deny that it had any knowledge of LLA using bases in the …

… by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1960 Muslim Population According to South African Government statistics the Muslim population … Klovement and the Hospital Welfare Society merged to form the Hospital Welfare and Muslim Educational Movement. This was largely due to the close working relationship, which existed between the …

… walkabout at the Cape Town Station 09h30: Walkabout, door-to-door and public meeting in Atlantis 11h00: Walkabout, door-to-door and public meeting in Khayelitsha 13h00: Walkabout, door-to-door and public meeting in Mitchelsplain SECRETARY GENERAL …

… the grounds of ill health. Surprisingly, he was available to fill the ceremonial State President position, which was vacant. Vorster was forced to resign because of the Information Scandal of 1978 that … The Information Scandal was about the use of funds to fund government propaganda. The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday …

… Party (IFP) supporters during the negotiations that led up to the first democratic election in South Africa was the … had claimed 6000 lives within five years. However, to many people these objects signified a history of opposing … of actually banning them raised emotions. In response to what the ANC saw as delaying tactics with regard to this …

… policies of Islamacisation and Arabisation, which sought to transform the country into an Islamic-Arabic country. … Because of this policy, many Christians were forced to convert to Islam as a means of escaping poverty and state …

… election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair. According to a statement issued at the end of the day-long … promised that international observers will be allowed to monitor the poll. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since … independence in 1980, faced one of the fiercest challenges to his presidency at the March poll from Movement for …

… On 25 June 1963 Mr. Justice H. Snyman submitted to parliament a final report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The … the nature and activities of Poqo from 7 December 1962 to 13 March 1963. On 22 November 1962, 250 Poqo members, … and home-made weapons, marched from the Mbekweni location to Paarl in its most determined effort to destabilise South …

… Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to further develop the colony and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was one of the …

… the time, nearly half contracted the disease, while close to 140,000 died within a few weeks. The disease spread … often whole families were ill or dying, with nobody left to care for them. Doctors and nurses did their best, but were too few to treat the ill. The Black and Coloured sections of the …

… Contrary to popular belief, Cape Agulhas and not Cape Point is the … Michell. It took years for the Cape Legislative Council to raise the money to begin building the lighthouse, but construction eventually …

… Health Day ever since. The purpose of World Health Day is to create awareness about health care and working conditions, and through training and support, aims to better equip health practitioners to provide better health services. For the past three years, …

… graduated from Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further to study at the University of Natal, where he graduated with … three years he taught at Ixopo High School, and then moved to Pietermaritzburg to teach at Maritzburg College. In 1928 Paton married Doris …

… that issue it was stated: "Apdusa Views sees as its task to act as a watchdog of the oppressed people. We intend to comment to warn and to expose all those who act against the interest …

… ANC's Deputy President Nelson Mandela issued warnings to the government to take strong measures against the perpetrators of the … African Police Force (SAPF), or the ANC would be forced to reconsider its strategy. With reference to the suspension …

… following an appeal by Commandant-General H.B. Klopper to all South Africans to take an interest in South Africa's military history. The object of the society was to help to further the interests of students of military …

… African business man born in Holland in 1824. He sailed to the Cape in South Africa in 1853 where he soon established the company that has come to be known as the father of all publishing companies - JC Juta &Co. The Juta Company won the right to supply reference books to the University of the Cape of …

… by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. The day … cancer research organisations. Each year, the UICC strives to ensure that the event is seen and heard by more people … 22 January 2014]| Medical Chronicle, (2011),  New Registry to Give Major Boost to Fight against Cancer , from Medical …

… Africans, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts started to redirect his energy to world peace. In a somewhat moving speech to the British Parliament he called for the United States, …

… In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife Winnie, Mandela's … Evelyn Wase hailed from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of …

… was involved in protests on the ground, as well as helping to organise collaborative efforts between different schools … 8 now and in that year it was the last year for std 6 to be in higher primary school. The following year this grade … of Afrikaans as the only medium of learning was applying to every level of schooling. Students in the higher primaries …