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Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
… changed the campus into a hub of political activism. On 12 September 2016 Fees Must Fall protestors occupied the (SU) … that was freed of institutional…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
South Africa’s Maritime History The Suez Canal allows for ships from Europe to travel to the East with ease. Before the canal was opened European ships had…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in the…
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
… lighthouses along the Wild Coast. The lantern sits atop a 12-metre lattice tower and is visible for 24 sea miles. It is a 3km walk or drive along the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of the Western Areas doubled between 1928 and 1934, from 12 000 to 24 000, and again to 60 000 by the 1950s. The Western Areas … provided through these…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… from £500 to £660. The monthly repayment ranged from £2.12.O to £3.0.0 extending over a period of 29 years. A deposit … during 1942, the last complete year…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 24 November 1972. …
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… imprisonment, but was released on bail and placed under a 24-hour house arrest. …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… interfere. Violence against the Resisters stopped only on 24 June when the Smuts government took action after wide …
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… the Claremont municipality by the Herschel descendants in 1906, and in 1934 the obelisk was declared a national …
Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, December 1947
… racial laws was the Passive Resistance Campaign of the 1906-1914 period under Mahatma Gandhi. The intervening period …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… On 24 October, 1964 Northern Rhodesia (now known as Zambia) …
EventCape Supreme Court sets aside 1973 Ciskei election of Lennox Sebe on the grounds of irregularities
… Minister of the Ciskei, after he won a by-election on 24 October 1975. …
EventThe first plots are sold in Mayfair on the West Rand
… by J.B Robinson in 1886, and the first plots were sold on 24 August 1896, after the land was surveyed by Government …
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… five bastions were standing and armed with cannon, from 12- to 24-pounders. These guns covered the anchoring place in Table … their every day lives over…
PlacePoswohl Synagogue, Mooi Street, Johannesburg
… from Poswohl, in Lithuania. Its cornerstone was laid on 24 August 1921 and today stands as a memorial to a community …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU). On 24 November 1995, Ramokhoase became the first black mayor of …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… schools, was brutally attacked by police. On September 12, 1977 Steve Bantu Biko died while in custody. Soon after, … Pascal Gwala’ from Poetry International…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… 2. John Ganya 11 years 48 years Soweto 3. Marks Shinners 12 years 37 years Atteridgeville Pretoria 4. Bennie Ntoele 10 … 34 years East London 6. Michael…
EventCOSATU issued a statement on Marikana Massacre
… On 24 August 2012, Congress of South African Trade Unions …
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
A 31 year-old prison warder Jacques Horne on guard duty, was shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital to free…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) on 24 April 1971. The programme of the NUNW demonstrated the …
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… The trial of 12 SASO and BPC leaders detained since September 1974. The charge sheet consisted of 81 pages. The 12 are accused of participating in terrorist…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… victims had no time to prepare or protect themselves. On 12 January several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … and thirst as they fled through the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… gross domestic savings of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 12.5 per cent in the year 2000, relaxation of exchange …
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… legislation such as the Pass laws 3 October, 12 African leaders issue A Call for African Unity 1949 … as Freedom Day in South Africa by the congress movement…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… register and found that she had been underpaid the sum of £24 5s. 7. I called on "Mr. X", asked him to refund this … the Court had determined the amount…
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… States hoped would be accomplished within a week. The 24 crew members and nine technicians under the leadership of …