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Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in
… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Two serving members of the army and a third man…
Vasco da Gama comes ashore at the mouth of the Limpopo River. He and his crew make the first White contact with Black southern
… Vasco da Gama comes ashore at the mouth of the Limpopo River. He and his crew make the first White …
What appears to be a power failure brings down a ten-year-old Boeing 737 shortly after take-off from the Red Sea resort of Shar
… Boeing 737 shortly after take-off from the Red Sea resort of Shar …
Louis van Assenburgh (51), successor of Willem Adriaan van der Stel as governor at the Cape, dies in the Castle in Cape Town af
… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 122. … Louis van Assenburgh (51), successor of…
Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat, former president of Egypt, is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt. Date is given as 24 December by several o
… Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat, former president of Egypt, is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt. Date is given as …
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… Stocks in Port Alfred, South Africa, on 16 February 1927 of British 1820 settlers. The family of her father Gerald Stocks hailed originally from South West ……
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, … Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of Karadi/Matvad in Gujarat,…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). The seeds of Reddy’s activism were sown as a…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa with his … by their hostility he in time won the…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the … police in the violence as well as…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) … blacks from…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… person throughout the scandal. Dr. Mulder was the Minister of Information in John Vorster's government. Moreover, he was … in the scandal were, General…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… Nelson Mandela was born into a world of war, revolutionary upheaval and a worldwide influenza … end in sight. In January General T.E. Lawrence led an army of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… The man and the woman were sentenced under the Immorality Act, the man to six months and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage…
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, and the Convention for a … I) started its first plenary meeting…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Distinguished Guests; … shown as people locked in time? Such degrading forms of representation inhibit our…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and thus became the foundation members thereof with equal…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … demands. January13, Gokhale wrote to…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in non-sugar growing activities. A … was tea growing, which according to the Clayton Report of 1909…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… Association] Bulletin, 1, 2. (July 1944). On the 9TH of April the inaugural meeting of the African Youth League … and man ”” the African Native or Aborigine…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… But he appears to have found a new recruit in the ranks of the African National Congress. A correspondent who was … of attainment for the following reasons: …
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and continents, representatives of different social systems, are met here as one…
Education for Service
… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, … African Government, coming together at this first meeting of the…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a … a highly dramatic, highly demonstrative form of…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… at the Cape, and suggests a deep awareness around issues of abolition and freedom held by slaves and servants throughout the Cape Colony. The timing of the…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… ( ANC) stalwart. Mpofu was born on 2 September 1962 (one of two other siblings) to Nosebenzile Doris Mpofu in Duncan … passion for politics began when he was…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… Rorke's Drift, situated 46 km South East of Dundee , on the Battlefields Route . Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War . Years …