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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 ‘…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… is founded on racial segregation and disenfranchisement of black people except for a small number who previously qualified in the Cape Colony . 26 February,…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world's first human heart transplant
… the next morning just before 6 a.m. when the new heart in the chest of Louis Washkansky was electrically shocked into action. After regaining consciousness…
PlaceLuckhoff High School
… With being established in 1935, the school is a very important part of the … participation of teachers and students (all role players) in the decision making…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… individuals. No, we represent organisations deeply rooted in the struggle for justice, deeply rooted in the struggle … Instead, they find a rising tide of…
ArticleThe Homelands
… Blacks population was moved to prevent them from living in the urban areas of South Africa. The Bantustans were a … thus denying them protection and any…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in … what was left of the African traditionally ruled African …
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 …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in … satisfy white South Africans, form relations with other…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… first President-General to represent the ANC officially in Moscow, Gumede’s Russian hosts remained hopeful that … with the CPSA and give effect to the ideals…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the … nationalists at home and begins to agitate…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line…
86. Non-racial sport
… a long memorandum to the International Cricket Conference in June 1979. The SACB maintains, like SACOS, that normal … these organisations found themselves…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click … and economic independence and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… to consolidate the reshuffle and appointments of ministers in key portfolio’s such as the finance portfolio. [2] The … white monopoly capital, which is the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist … dynamic changes that were taking place among the new urban…
Address on South African Freedom Day 2001, Pietersburg, 27 April 2001
… Distinguished Guests People of the Northern Province: In the past seven years we have travelled a long way and made … All of us should join with the many…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910…
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…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… to me by the students of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in the form of this important award. It is indeed very … should be solutions that are informed by a…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now … owned by progressive whites and…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. … him an enemy of the state and proponent of…
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 …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… was chiefly concerned with expanding its territory in Southern Africa, in so doing enforcing dominion over all … as a population, Europeans were vastly…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… Boycott has been used as an effective political weapon in different countries ever since it came into use as a … is that each time they have raised the…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… Charter as adopted at Morogoro, 1969 The Freedom Charter in 2001 Celebrating the implementation of the Freedom Charter … declare that South Africa belongs to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… and Natal Medical School. 24 January, Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine … up roadblocks and distributing food. 30 000…
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…