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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 …
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… have in the meantime been agreed upon: ”¢ The body or bodies referred to in paragraph 8.2 of the Report of the … than the end of 1990. ”¢ In all cases where…
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 …
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… I could not help thinking that fungus grows on decaying bodies. My body was dying. I had hoped never to reach this … serve as a judge under it. Now, my…
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 …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… institutions that deny them direct link with statutory bodies and agencies, including Parliament, at local and … Boards, Coloured Advisory Councils, Bantu…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… the denigration and economic exploitation of certain bodies. But that it was a desire, an imagination that allowed … in order to claim and access natural…
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 …
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,…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the United Party (UP) against the …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… important documents which include: your birth certificate; death certificate, school and marriage certificates. It can …
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… trade unions, student organisations, and sports bodies' to fight oppression. He was addressing the Transvaal …
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 …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula 1867-1948. Protea Book House, Pretoria, 2008.↵ … Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school … Anon, George Msimang (1948 -2004 from African Art…