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EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 431-2. …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
In what was widely regarded as move to prepare the ground for the country's first multiracial elections, President F.W. de Klerk reshuffled the cabinet. This…
EventSevered human leg drops off SAA plane
A human leg was dropped from a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft as it was preparing to land at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Pam Hearne, the owner…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
Eight former apartheid policemen, including former police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Johan Coetzee, former hit-squad commander Eugene de Kock and former…
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
In a move that was long overdue, President F.W. de Klerk imposed a state of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by the South African Human…
EventPolice open fire, killing 34 striking mine-workers at Marikana
… (Accessed: 14 August 2013)| Perry, A. (2012) ‘South Africa’s Police Open Fire on Striking Miners: The Video’ , … 14 August 2013)| Aljazeera, (2012) ‘Dozens…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Anton Lembede's primary school class, Umbumbulu, 192.7 (Bemadette Sibeko) Inset of…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… Saturday 6 May 1922 by the Governor of the Union of South Africa, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught. In … Hiking South Africa on Instagram: “…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational work, but when leadership is confronted with the…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
The woman accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia…
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
Martin Plaut writes on the passing of the foremost scholar of slavery in the Cape Robert Shell: my friend Today I learnt the news I had been expecting and…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49 delegates, was the highest…
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
Zandra Mitchley, her fourteen year old son, Shaun, and his friend, Claire Silberbauer, were murdered on the old Vereeniging road, near Eikenhof, south of…
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
On 23 July 1989, a blast occurred opposite the Athlone Magistrate's Court and police complex, which took the lives of two African National Congress (ANC)…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… jaar , Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.| The state inside South Africa between 1960 and 1990, website: stanford.edu …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) expressed concern about stability in Manzimhlope, the KwaZulu-Natal lower south coast region, following the murder of IFP…
Mission Stations - N-S
… Mullins was stationed here when he first arrived in South Africa in the 1850s. ST LUKE'S , Transkei, Cape: No data … tells in his "History of the Methodist…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
[Addis Ababa - "Each time one of us dies, thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not in vain". A few hours after the hanging of…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009 as part of what was known as The Unity Government, in partnership with Robert…
Durban an Overview
In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu, a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially settlement…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
In the years immediately preceding the First World War all the European countries were facing increased political dissent from the growing working class. The…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into…
ArticleBlack Sash
The Women's Defence of the Constitution LeagueIn 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly English-speaking formed an organization…
PlaceKalahari Desert
… large basin like Plain in the interior Plateau of Southern Africa . It occupies almost all of Botswana , the eastern … https://womenshealthsa.co.za/best…
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2014
FINAL PROGRAMME FOR THE NKOSI ALBERT LUTHULI ORAL HISTORY COMPETITION MULDERSDRIFT, 03-06 OCTOBER 2014 DAY ONE (Friday 03 OCTOBER 2014) Afternoon…