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ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… guerrilla warfare campaign. In 1978, SWAPO had around 18,000 combatants and could launch 800 raids into Namibia. … which no more than 800 were near the…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
… Prison in Benoni, East Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On 12 June 1986 he was detained at New Prison, Pietermaritzburg, …
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… of the day. Outside the long narrow block of cells, about 12 feet wide, was an equally long exercise yard. Running down …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… Town and Peddie). In a poem that appeared in Umteleli on 18 December 1920, she criticizes L.T. Mvabaza, the editor of … gleaned from a poem about herself…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the …
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… at the request of his son. Kekana, however, died on 12 April 1887 in Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and … 11 …
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… during this time and sat on the students’ council for extra-mural studies and was elected chairman of the youth … and the Select Committee on the…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to … [online]. Available online www.3rdearmusic.com [Accessed 18…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… repairing it, he managed the make the 60-mile trip in 12 hours and with the help of Canon John Collins's Christian …
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to 1884, despite having had to shut its doors briefly in 2006 due to budgetary constraints. …
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… over 600 deaths 1981 30 January Matola, Mozambique; 12 killed, 3 abducted 1982 9 December Maseru, Lesotho; 42 … August Seme, Lucas (ANC) From Swazi…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… Internal Security Act , he was subsequently sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on May 1987 for "terrorism”. He was the …
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… was taken by a party of three to a back street and shot on 11 March. He died in the Johannesburg hospital the next day. …
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… by the SASF and Sacos to inform the Fifa meeting, on June 11, 1974, as to why Fasa should be expelled. He had applied …
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… the ANC’s military wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) – on August 11. Had the four not escaped, they would have been tried with …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… at 15. He was too young to go to university, so he did an extra year at school; his subjects included Greek and English … of each year in Cape Town. …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… Adele Mavuso had two children with her. In September 2006, he married Gugu Nkosi at the Roodepoort Home Affairs … May 2014]|Smart Cape, (2014), Zakes Mda…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… 2002. Footprints in Grey Street. Durban: P. Naidoo. 2006. 156 Hands that built South Africa. Durban: P. Naidoo. …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… schools, was brutally attacked by police. On September 12, 1977 Steve Bantu Biko died while in custody. Soon after, … Black Consciousness organizations, and…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… recognized as the two official languages of South Africa. [11] However, shortly afterwards a Kultuur campaign was … War wanted to distance themselves from…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… was to sail on the Empress of Britain from Cape Town on 18 February 1964. His family, who were already in London, … on the ANC on 2 February 1990 and Mandela…
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
… David Hepburn Craighead was born on 18 December 1918, in Benoni , in what was known as the … worked as a mine manager passed away when Craighead was 11 years…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… 1970 11 June, I t is announced that Security Police have arrested … taken into custody. They include Winnie Mandela. 18 February, Minister of Defence Botha,…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… increases slightly from bottom to top and the extra weight that the head carries enhances the mobility of … http://ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_Coetzee_0902.htm…
BiographyPaul David
… However, the State issued him with a passport for only 12-days, in 1979, to receive medical treatment in London and …
ArchiveInterviews with Harold Bangry Matshididi and Aggie Billy Shoke, 29 January 2024, 26 July 2024, 1 August 1994 and 11 December 1994
… Shoke, 29 January 2024, 26 July 2024, 1 August 1994 and 11 December 1994 …
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
… death he was elected to the SWAPO Central Committee. On 12 September 1989, bullets fired from a passing car struck …
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… installed as Stellenbosch University's new Chancellor on 12 May 2008. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, passed away on 14 May …
BiographyJan van Eck
… Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children. He came … right. Van Eck left Parliament in 1994 and for the next 12 years…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
… Africa, and also he has completed a highly successful 12-stop tour of Sweden at the invitation of the Swedish Jazz …