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Impact of the collapse of the USSR on South Africa
… Impact of the collapse of the USSR on South Africa …
Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Lawson reports that the De Beer and Van Rooyen’s commando, raiding the upper Tugela from the Free State,
… Rooyen’s commando, raiding the upper Tugela from the Free State, …
The State President commutes the death sentences on three Black men, for their part in the attack on the Soekmekaar Police Stat
… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The State President commutes the death sentences…
Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the
… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 717 ……
Anglo-Boer War 2: The war between the British Empire and the two Boer republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, breaks ou
… and the two Boer republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, breaks ou …
B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church
… Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC, p. 259. … B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state…
The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian
… atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… elections and shifted the country towards the construction of a new political, social and economic order. 27 April, The national flag was designed by a…
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
… he won a scholarship to read English at the University of Ibadan. He taught briefly at the University of Lagos after … supported the government’s goal of…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… being used by the inhabitants. The reason why groups often state their arrival on some foreign land as a "discovery" is … any claim they make to "owning" the…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
… Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli was born on 18th of Septenber 1928 in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Abstract Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic … constitutions for women in the world; the democratic state…
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… 1984 the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups, organised highly successful … mass action had rendered SA ungovernable…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the … This genre of…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Apartheid's Truimph Over Non-Racialism The destruction of Sophiatown is widely documented, considered as the … However, there are still glaring gaps in…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… Fietas was known as the 'Malay location' because most of the people who lived there were 'coloured', 'cape … location' was struck by bubonic plague in 1904,…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko … premier art organisation. The realisation of an official, state-funded,…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport. … Ikhamanga (Strelitzia) plant…
The Origin of People
… are the most complex creatures on earth. Many aspects of human behaviour demonstrates a great difference with other … told weird and wonderful stories about…
ArticleThe Order of Luthuli
… The triangular flint stone represents a basic tool of survival used by prehistoric ancestors to produce … to make clothing, among others. It symbolizes the…
ArticleThe Order of Ikhamanga
… to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport. … Ikhamanga (Strelitzia) plant…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… a cultural figure such as Mr. Semenya, an understanding of the social environment in South Africa is essential. The White minority rule of South Africa and…
ArticleSixteen Days of Activism
… 16 Days of Activism is an international awareness-raising campaign … from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to 10…
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are … tyranny. In spite of fierce repression under the state of emergency, torture,…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… operated on the understanding that prisons were places of punishment which was mainly executed through forced prison labour. By the late 1800s, the idea of…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… A Brief Overview The People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the … Marxist…
Writer’s of The Constitution
… President Thabo Mbeki addresses the nation at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town Constitutional Assembly After the … Negotiating Process (MPNP) had…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village … under Portuguese colonial rule, warning that the apartheid…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada
… Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada …