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EventSpringbok rugby player, Schalk Burger is born in Port Elizabeth
… to be one of the most hardworking players in South Africa. In 2004 Burger won two awards; the IRB International …
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… some with atrophic limbs leading to paralysis. South Africa is one of the countries that are virtually polio free … [Accessed on 8 May 2012]|Khumalo G. (2009…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… the basis of equal rights for all racial groups in South Africa. No actual unification was immediately announced …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by …
EventThe Pretoria Show is opened for all races
… races. The show is the largest springtime show in South Africa. Like the town and street name changes throughout the …
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… studying at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in South Africa. He studied Anthropology at the University of …
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… Pauw had blown the lid on a place called Vlakplaas, South Africa's Death Squad HQ. Horror unfolded in the forms of … has taken me into the some the darkest…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… later. David Hemson, pioneered Wages Commissions in South Africa in 1971 and, as union official, participated in Durban … and history, he supports…
PlaceAgulhas National Park
… plains of this Western Cape Nature Reserve in South Africa hold many secrets for nature lovers. You'll discover … in 1994 and is the only one of its kind…
PlaceeThekwini Municipality
… one of four coastal metropolitan Municipalities in South Africa, alongside Cape Town , Nelson Mandela Bay , and … people (as per 2011 Census) . It is known…
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… force in the union movement. In post-apartheid South Africa, public sector workers tend to have higher formal … characterises work and workers in post…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… of Connaugh t, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, became the University's first Chancellor, and … to produce a systematic climatological atlas of…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… also became involved in the early Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Its radical socialist ideas drew many African …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… salute and when he left sang “There are two ways for Africa, one way leads to Congress, and one way to Verwoerd!” … Tanzania, before they were sent for…
PlaceNgoye University of Zululand, Richards Bay
… college academically affiliated to the University of South Africa. The first intake of 41 students includes five … equal to any of the centres of higher…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated … burden on African, Indian, and Couloured people of South Africa. The…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… is not to say that repression was not exercised in South Africa before 1948 or that apartheid did not exist before … privileged elite within the indigenous…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… scene of arguably the most famous political trial in South Africa's history, the Rivonia Trial. During this trial, … theatre. It as opened by the Prime…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … my statement to that effect.34 I hope to return to Africa some time this year…
Affirming the history of all South Africans
… Machel, which has opened already; the memorial to South Africa's first Nobel prize winner, Chief Albert Lutuli; a … to our attempts to further the democratic…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… and says that we were correct in our vision for South Africa. By inference all actions against us during this … today had you not banned our non racist ideas…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… Vorster, the then prime minister of the Republic of South Africa. It was a 10 storey, blue coloured cement building. …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… question highlighted the concern that land reform in South Africa was going slower than expected. The commissions agreed … men and women in the international…
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
… republic with no reference to us. We feel that white South Africa should not go on making changes in our lives without …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Let August the 28th be the D-Day for the neo-Nazis of Africa as May 8, 1945, was for their mentors in Europe. The …
PlaceElsie’s River
… Philander (19 January 1961 - 4 March 2026), one of South Africa's most beloved and versatile entertainers. Born in … Philander (19 January 1961 - 4 March…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a …
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… political foresight to realise that the problems of South Africa's disenfranchised cut across ethnicity and had to be …
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… After a few years abroad, Motaung returned to South Africa and immediately started proceedings to form his own … www.kaizerchiefs.com [Accessed on 5 October…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk promises repeal of apartheid laws
… argue for the lifting of economic sanctions against South Africa. However, most of the world was sceptical of de … [Accessed: 25 January 2010]|Wren, C.S., …