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EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested elections of 1948 following the end of the World War II, 1945. After …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… 850km north-east of Windhoek, capital of Namibia. The bodies were believed to be that of members of the People's …
The strangulation of activity
… an international outcry from a world still shocked by the death in detention of Steve Biko in September 1977. At the … and more funerals. FREEDOM OF THE…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… 1 January, Natoo Babenia passed away. At the time of his death he was working as a volunteer at the Gandhi Library in …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… across colour and religious lines. Following his mother’s death, he was raised by his aunt in Grahamstown. She had …
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… a result of the Afrikaner National Party gaining power in 1948, the people’s struggle against apartheid took many … When jails are becoming necessary homes…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… On 4 July, 1948 respected academic Professor Njabulo Ndeble was born in …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… Steel and Iron Corporation (Iscor). Van der Bijl died in 1948 and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans …
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… “continued participation in the GNU was equivalent to a death sentence for even the broadest and mildest concept of … would be equivalent to detention on a…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… in Moscow at the time, written and signed hours before his death. Dadoo dies with family and close Party comrades at his side. At the time of his death, his…
Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… Learn about the importance of rivers in the birth/and death of civilizations EXAMPLE ACTIVITY: Civilizations and … The report should cover the first…
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
… an honorary degree from the University of Utrecht in 1948, and was a professor of Afrikaans at the University of …
PlaceWindermere
… was prone to flooding, and many residents recall the vast bodies of water which appeared with the winter rains and … sought to exclude. When the Nationalists…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… army and the AmaZulu group he became leader of after the death of his father. He continued to pillage the lands and … became incorporated into his group,…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… a mile deep, where she said Winnie’s goons would take the bodies from the torture session after Winnie had decided … threatening to the people of South…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… was founded on 23 October 1901. After that several other bodies began to spring up around the country. In 1911, after …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… a stroke. The ANC releases a press statement on his death. 16 January, Former President Nelson Mandela addresses … The High Court acquits Dr Wouter Basson -…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the United Party (UP) against the …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and … into the forefront of the Civil Rights…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… important documents which include: your birth certificate; death certificate, school and marriage certificates. It can …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… trade unions, student organisations, and sports bodies' to fight oppression. He was addressing the Transvaal …
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
… a poem: “I am Khanga I wrap myself around the curvaceous bodies of women all over Africa I am the perfect nightdress … decorated in green, black and gold,…
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… in WWII. The building, which cost £235000, was begun in 1948 and completed in 1972. It was declared a National …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… the Minister of the Interior by the Tamil Benefit Society. 1948 Most primary and secondary education of inhabitants of … Krause Street in the east and…
Bibliographical Data
… StrugÂgle for Freedom in South Africa (London: Gollancz, 1948; 2nd ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964), … nor was Janet Robertson, Liberalism…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… where he started farming on a small scale, until his death in 1921. George’s father was quite a militant worker. … playgrounds and other facilities. After…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… ‘four nation’ thesis as a framework in their manifesto of 1948, stating that “South Africa is a country of four chief …
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take … shall be the same, regardless of…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
… the right to vote for and stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All the people shall be entitled to … shall be the same regardless of race,…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
… the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take … shall be the same, regardless of…