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EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he published his first article. At 21 he published his …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… Luthuli and comrades. 5 August, Mandela was arrested, 17 months after going underground, near Howick, Kwazulu-Natal … Chief Minister of the Apartheid…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… 1970-1979 1970 HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern … to move much beyond universities and…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Periyasamy Govender, another volunteer, was born on 17 September 1890 in Madras (now Chennai), India. He arrived … belonged to T. Veloo. They had carried…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… board the H.M.T. Armadale Castle , arriving in Mombasa on 17 February 1916. For the first nine months, the battalion …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… minister for community safety, Firoz Cachali. On Tuesday 17 February, Education Minister Naledi Pandor and African … excluded back, whether academically or…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… Profile: Abdullah Ibrahim." The Guardian. December 07, 2001. Accessed November 18, 2016. www.theguardian.com/. ↵ …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 June 1977. …
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… On 17 August 1970, two top South African scientists were refused …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… to Lumumba’s arrest. He was executed by a firing squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… captured. On 1 December he was imprisoned at Thysville. On 17 January 1961 he was flown to Elisabethville in Katanga …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… by the bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, on 17 June. Tributes were made by, among others, Chief Albert …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, was born in …
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
The Portuguese cargo ship Santo Alberto was wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River. Through admirable leadership of the…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… building at 78 Fox Street. The bank has grown to span 17 African countries and 16 countries across South East Asia, …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
"They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... They asked if they would be…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Elected at the first annual National Congress held on 16-17 December 1972 in Hammanskraal Winnifred Kgware - President …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… forced King Louis XVI to accept the National Assembly. [17] On the 4th of August the National Assembly deputies voted … Ibid. [13] Ibid. p. 300. [14] Ibid. …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… in his home country, but received a negative response. On 17 June 1920, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from … that Africans seek to control those…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… to exploit the mineral resources by white South Africa. In 1964, South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) was …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew. Part one Harry Snitcher 1, …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… of I.U.S. formed the International Student Conference in 1964 but it had to dissolve in 1968 due to internal problems. …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… in July 1963. His statement from the dock on 21 April 1964 inspired people in a world splintered by racial and … of negotiations. On the eve of general…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for 18:00 on Tuesday, 22 August, at the New Lecture … Avenue South, Upper Campus, University of…
PlaceRMS Athens, a Shipwreck between Moullie Point and Green Point
… It was wrecked between Mouille Point and Green Point on 17 May, 1865. This occurred at night, after the boiler fires … ran aground here in the 'Great North…
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 February 1961. Riebeeck Square (block bounded by …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… fifteen other members mysteriously crashed on the night of 17-18 September at the border of Northern Rhodesia and …