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Olympic games end in Athens

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Olympic games end in Athens

… which is set to host the next Olympic competitions in 2008, with 63 medals. South Africa managed to win six medals, …

Aaron Mokoena, SA footballer is born in Boipatong

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Aaron Mokoena, SA footballer is born in Boipatong

… 2000 Olympic qualifiers. He also led Bafana Bafana in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. Mokoena’s tough tackling …

Sicelo Mhlauli portrait

Sicelo Mhlauli

Gerald Patrick Kearney portrait

Gerald Patrick Kearney

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert portrait

Ismail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert

Esther Mahlangu portrait

Esther Mahlangu

Marius Schoon portrait

Marius Schoon

Remembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town by Heike Becker (2018)

Remembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town by Heike Becker (2018)

The Development of Job - Related Education and Training in Soweto 1940 - 1990 by Erwin Kelm, November 2000

The Development of Job - Related Education and Training in Soweto 1940 - 1990 by Erwin Kelm, November 2000

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Almost 200 Black families, who were removed from their land in Eersterus, east of Pretoria in the 1950’s, receive R17 million f

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Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people and injures 500.

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About 200 000 White South Africans will visit Soweto this year, according to the Soweto Tourism Association, up from 30 000 fiv

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A week of violence in Ciskei continues in which it is officially estimated that 200 huts have been burned. The Botha Sigcau Hig

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant J.H. Visser with 200 men attacks Kuruman, defended by only 35 members of the Cape Police, 33 local

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Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever

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An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in

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Anglo-Boer War 1: Boers defeat the British force at Majuba Hill, in the Anglo-Transvaal War. More than 200 British soldiers and

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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.

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Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against

Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007

World Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign

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World Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign

… cases and 512 400 cancer deaths were reported in Africa in 2008. These figures are projected to nearly double by the …

Clone of hoz tab example

… sector: South Africa’s Ambassador to Oman from 2003 to 2008, and then to the United Arab Emirates from 2008 to December 2012; Deputy Director-General of Government … of Defence for 15 years of Distinguished Service and in 2008 he was decorated by the Sultan of Oman with the Naumann …

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… sector: South Africa’s Ambassador to Oman from 2003 to 2008, and then to the United Arab Emirates from 2008 to December 2012; Deputy Director-General of Government … of Defence for 15 years of Distinguished Service and in 2008 he was decorated by the Sultan of Oman with the Naumann …

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela portrait

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Parliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki

… of the Republic South Africa on Sunday 21 September 2008. Parliament convened on Monday 22 September and accepted … Assembly on the resignation of Mbeki, and 25 September 2008 was put forward as the date on which the resignation of … for debate and voting the following day. On 23 September 2008, MPs voted overwhelmingly with 299 votes against the …

Peter Moonsammy portrait

Peter Moonsammy

Kewpie portrait

Kewpie

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala portrait

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala

Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

… trivializing, the National Heritage Council endorsed it in 2008. Tutu was quoted as saying in an interview: "We're going …