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EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… the other is Drawn in Colour (1960). Both were written early in her literary career and have been hailed by critics …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… about the suppression of political and cultural renewal. Early in 1990, a group of ex-uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) cadres …
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… expropriation of ancestral African land by the European settlers and their descendants. After the Second World War, … the founder of FRELIMO of Mozambique,…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in 1965 and the cairn smoothed with cement. In the early 1990s the Sandton Historical Association, with expert … extending their Technical Information…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… It also deals with the development of prehistoric art and early agricultural techniques in the different regions of the … marked by the end of the great…
PlaceGuinea
… Relative to Men and Boys in Guinea”. The report focuses on early family formation, a common phenomenon in the country … in economic activities and exercise…
Work In Progress
… guerilla and sabotage activities of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The impetus for the publication came from a … small, and struggling to establish itself…
PlaceConcordia
… down their weapons. The Boers remained in occupation until early in May. When news of this debacle eventually reached …
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… he was invested by Pope Paul VI in St Peter's Basilica. Early in Cardinal McCann's tenure as Archbishop, the South …
EventDavid Kitson released
… was sentenced in December 1964 for his part in the early sabotage campaigns; for furthering the aims of …
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the …
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the Gools, …
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… country, only to return at the dawn of democracy in the early 1990’s. Mason’s work is represented in all major South …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… with the past state regimes rather than assuming that the early 1990s represent the end of the era of armed struggle. … Both movements bequeathed for…
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… prison road-camp and ordered to break stone from early morning in the bitter cold. He contracted double … observed the jail rules and did the task entrusted…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… Cape Colony, descended from the Khoikhoin and the Dutch settlers. In other words, this unification of peoples was … director of the London Missionary Society…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… challenges amid a looming global environmental crisis. Early Electrification in South Africa The mineral revolution … [2] In 1891, Johannesburg was…
PlaceKnysna Forest
… The Knysna Forests was then over harvested from the early 1800's until 1939, when the government put a stop to … "ferns," and Hessequa, meaning "Men of the…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… (Baldwin, 1975: 218). Rural immigration to cities began as early as the middle of the 19th century, though the amount of … for at least three months (Wilson,…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Dube’s uncle Mqawe was a Zulu chief. Dube spent his early years at Adams School where his father served as a …
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… died, South Sudanese calls for independence from as early as 1954 were brought to a regional referendum. The …
Madiba The African Opera
… grew up with family tales and anecdotes about Nelson’s early life in Mqhekezweni. In his libretto, Mtirara seeks to …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… probably by Cornelis Mostert, who acquired the Farm in the early 19th Century. It subsequently underwent the addition of …
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… Hospital. Furthermore, Fleming was the founding member and early president of the South Africa Nutrition Society (SANS). …
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… Prison singing the ‘Red Flag’ (the official anthem of early socialists and communists in South Africa). …
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… group (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on …
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… foiled several coup attempts during his rule. In the early 1990's Colonel Onward Guzana, a former member of the …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… against policies of segregation in South Africa in the early 1900s, especially against those that concerned Indians. …
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… chaos that took place in South African townships in the early 1990s. In memory of Oosterbroek, who was killed …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… after her conviction but refused an offer to be released early. She died on 22 February 1914, soon after her release …