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Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Born : 1939, Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) In Summary : Poet, African National Congress Chief … against South Africa remained in place until 1998. [47…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first … President at the Union…
#JimiMatthews decision praised by Chelsea Geach (News), 28 Jun 2016
… officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, his resignation was a step in the right direction. Right2Know spokesman Micah Reddy said: “Matthews has long been complicit in the…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus … UN Force Commander Lieutenant General Dallaire argued that in…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… Nelson Mandela Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the … and an African. She was both an artist and…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… Theatre is an independent physical theatre company founded in 1987 in order to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-man … established themselves in Observatory …
PlaceYsterplaat, Cape Town
… started using Ysterplaat as a landing field. However in the Municipal Census of 1810, it is listed that on the … the grass airfield. An Airport Managers…
PlaceeThekwini Municipality
… EThekwini Municipality is a Category A Municipality found in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal . It is one of four coastal metropolitan…
PlaceMelmoth, Gateway to Zululand
… and 90 km from the Coastal Town of Mtunzini. Referred to, in the SA edition of Trivial Pursuit, as having the cleanest air in the country, Melmoth was a ‘…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing … were weeded out. So far AGM papers dating…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, … Congress(ANC) was granted access to military…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a … Women's Day is not…
Constitiounal Court Judgement in the matter of Economic Freedom Fighters vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others; Democratic Alliance vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others, Heard on 9 February 2016 and Decided on 31 March 2016
… Constitiounal Court Judgement in the matter of Economic Freedom Fighters vs. Speaker of the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… 1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the … The documents are referred to a graphologist of…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… Marianne Kriel was born in Bellville on 30 August 1971.[i] She attended Bellville … Kriel earned herself a gold medal at the All Africa Games in the 100…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… pioneer of the Black Consciousness(BC) philosophy was born in King William's Town, Eastern Cape. Biko’s unshaken stance … apartheid inspired the hope of…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… It is ironic that Slovo, vilified by fellow Whites and in the white press as a Stalinist and revolutionary, should be in the end have been the great voice of…
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… of charges against him regarding his alleged participation in the Rwandan genocide by a Court of Law in Rwanda. Bishop Misago was arrested on 14 April 1999…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… Pallo Jordan, opened a community library at Mbuzini in the Mpumalanga Province, known as the Mbuzini Samora … Machel and his compatriots were returning from…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… mines and 13 000 were retained to be used for training in demining. Anti personnel mines are mine explosives … to injure personnel or people rather than…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… introduced to the Cape. 1820 A number of Indians arrive in Cape Town from Bencoolen. A certain Mr Hare provides … receives representative self-government…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873. It is believed that he … in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa for…
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… ANC`s highest honour. Ray Alexander Simons was involved in the liberation struggle from an early age, and remained … all forms of oppression. The ANC joins…
PlaceGoshen
… It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal … worried the British Colonial Office. This explains why in 1885,…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… 1970 Early in 1970, the South African Communist Party (SACP) convenes … including MK cadres who experienced armed confrontation in Zimbabwe in the 1967 …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… large, it was segmented and spread over a large Area in what is now the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The capital of … into the Natal province after the end of…
PlacePiketberg
… farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain … with the seasons - from reddish…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… Distinguished Premiers of our Provinces Mayors and leaders in our system of local government Our honoured traditional … democratically elected parliament on…