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… Mashashane Lutheran School and Setotolwane. From 1926 to 1929 he studied for a teacher's diploma at Kilnerton … school in the Potgietersrus district. From April 1930 to June 1935 he was principal at the Kalkspruit Amalgamated … of Bantu Education. Two years later he was seconded back to Mokopane in order to reorganize the college. In 1961 …

… 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven … legislation on 22 August 1980. The gateway giving access to the property was probably built at the end of the 18th … part of the Property of the University of Cape Town. Close to a number of the UCT Residencies and various Sporting …

… Sithole. Nonetheless, activists in the community decided to continue with funeral. As a result more than 500 people, … at a rally at Saul Tsotetsi, Sebokeng at 16:00 to recall the day. … Rally to commemorate Joseph Sithole’s funeral …

… Location: back to this day in history search archive During the summit … the first time since the 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of Apartheid laws, specifically … condemning: The legal requirement of trade unions to register The Industrial Council System Government …

… Congress of South Africa takes this opportunity again to congratulate Your Excellency on your recent election to … attempts of the enemy have proved to be in vain. Strike Movement South Africa, today, is being rocked by the … wares against the peoples of independent Africa, to push back the frontiers of the African Revolution and to deny us …

… 1558 the British Queen, Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. … in 1588. Elizabeth was Queen at the time Britain was said to be experiencing the “English Renaissance”. This was the … luminaries of this period was William Shakespeare (1564 to 1616). There were calamities associated with Elizabethan …

… South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial dis …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , Westport: Greenwood. … Rowntree is nominated as the new American ambassador to South Africa to replace J.C. Salterwaite, due to leave South Af …

… session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be hel …

… FW de Klerk meets Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to try to forge a joint emergency strategy to rescue the teetering Angolan …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a …

… Nigerian officials warn the United States not to try to capture ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor, thought to be the target …

… Participants in CODESA decide to set up five working groups, which are to report to a second CODESA plenary session before the …

… minister, General Jan Smuts, asks parliament’s approval to send troops to Europe, contrary to his promise in 193 …

… The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and …

… President Botha announces that his offer of release to Nelson Mandela still stands and that government is prepared to talk to t …

… The African National Congress is to triple the size of its national executive committee to 105 members to broaden decision-maki …

… F.W. de Klerk announced that the National Party was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. … the NP was declaring itself an official opposition party to the ANC, forfeit the Deputy President position, which de … NP set to withdraw from GNU …

… Simon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean court to attempting to possess dangerous weapons. …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The schools’ boycott spreads to universities and to rural areas and the ‘homelands’. …

… Anne Paton, widow of Alan Paton, announces her decision to move to England. …

… US Marines land at Tangier, Morocco, to provide protection to the Belgian Legation. …

… UN vote 83–0 to condemn South Africa following its failure to drop Apartheid. …

… David Livingstone arrives at the Cape to start his expedition to the interior. …

… A campaign to reduce governmental corruption, and to oust those identified, starts in Egypt. …

… Everything you wanted to know about health systems, but were afraid to ask …

… grew. After the 1976 student revolt, upon her return to South Africa, she resolved to become actively engaged in the situation in the country. … and had continued to freelance for them. In 1983, she went back part-time to work on the Working Women project. This was …

… Between October 1978 and August 1979, the ANC tried to understand how its very emphasis on armed activity was undermining its efforts to mount a sustained armed struggle. The ANC attempted to … - Fosatu) that they should, at least temporarily, hold back from a national political commitment. The PMSC …

… It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had … German sociologist Max Weber who, in writing about rule-bound hierarchic bureaucratic systems of administration, … when I started reading from a copy of the letter. I had my back to the open door and she rather bravely, I thought, …