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EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… He wrote Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica eight years before his death, at the age of twenty four. There were initially uncertainties around the exact year of his…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… as Mozambique's first president. At the time of his death, Machel had been in power for 11 years. On the day of … returning from an African leaders’ summit…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in South Africa. In this context it is necessary to … prepares its Report on the basis of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… conduct a public investigation into issues raised by the death of Steve Biko in police custody in November 1977. 1980 26 November, At … what, treated the…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… open his stomach. The magistrate at the inquest into his death found that his death was caused by the act of some unknown person or … were policemen and…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… of Solomon Maditsi, a young boy was killed by lightning, a death that was blamed on witchcraft. Some of the youth argued … took him to Schoonard police…
PlaceCabo Verde
… state with Guinea-Bissau were abandoned in the 1980s [iv] . Since 1991 Cape Verde has been a multi-party … Number 3, July 2002, pp. 153-165 (Article).Page…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Because Witzieshoek's only school went up to Standard IV, he and his sister MaTreaty could not acquire much formal … teachers' course [Standard V] is a…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… became King around the age of nine or ten after the death of his father Akhenaten. DNA analysis of Tutankhamen’s … defects that could possibly have led to…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a … of Guinea. Conte’ was president of Guinea up…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… from his student days to just a few days before his death, significantly broadens our understanding of a seminal … hygiene, and scriptures. In addition, to…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… was an executive committee member of TUCSA. Following the death of her husband Jimmy Bolton, Secretary of the furniture …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… came into power and introduced apartheid legislation [iv] . Examples of pre-apartheid legislation include the 1913 … ↵ [iv]Surplus People Project (South…
PlaceRwanda
… ruled indirectly through King Musinga's puppet government [iv] . Rwanda was only a German colony for a short period of … of great expansion of its borders …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… area. This could be associated with the legacy of Steve Biko and the influence of the Black Consciousness Movement …
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… resistance was broken only in the late 1960s by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement . The BCM’s leaders …
PlaceSomalia
… exchanged for raw materials like myrrh and frankincense. [iv] Inland communities benefitted greatly from the widespread … to influenza. Although the Dervish…
PlaceCameroon
… of Cameroon, when it gained independence from France [iv] . In 1961 the Federal Republic of Cameroon was formed … grassfields. In 1986 a natural gas leak…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… The instant outpouring of grief that followed Lennon's death was on a level with that of the sudden death of a world figure such as John or Robert Kennedy, ……
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu … Inkatha Freedom Party support bases. In…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… during first day of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – The man who was arrested alongside late … on Monday during the first sitting of…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… international airport. He was buried two days after his death in a funeral attended by only family members and foreign diplomats. Mainassara's death was…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Keith Wallace, who was allegedly killed by BOSS’ Secret Death Squad, also known as the Z- Squad. A.H. Bouwer was … Mr, Mike Kuhn. Z- Squad The Z- Squad,…
EventShaka Zulu is murdered
… brief period as king of the Zulu people, from 1816. His death came a year after his mother's death. …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… von Lindequist, arrives to take his place. After the death Hendrik Witbooi, the Witbooi finally surrender to the … camp in South-West Africa. It is given the…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Mayor Jacob Kuzwayo Dlamini, who was beaten and burnt to death by an angry mob on 3 September 1984. They faced … arrested, tried and sentenced. They spent…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's death. The documents were disclosed in TRC meetings with the … in Zambia, killing them instantly. At…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… were awarded in 1901, on the 5-year anniversary of his death. The funds and assets that are made available for the … regulation of organ development and…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… epidemic followed a series of calamities that included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the … friends and relatives for having…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… all soon die out. Apart from loss of access to land, and death by violent force of arms, infectious diseases like … placed on public display. In 1976, on the…