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BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… between the two was further exacerbated by the tragic death of their second child, Makaziwe, of meningitis at 9 … with her while he was in prison…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… the upper classes with the preservation of the body after death, led to the pyramid tomb standing as a symbol of the …
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At the time of his death, Sibeko was based New York. The death of Sibeko came as result of increasing hostility …
PlaceGoedverwact
… to six of his freed slaves by H. S. Burger. On the death of the last of the heirs in Dec. 1888 the Moravians …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had been orchestrated by Belgian and US forces who …
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… Indian community. She continued her medical work until her death in 1979. …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… Belgium in June 1960, a series of events that led to his death unfolded. In October 1960 Lumumba was placed under …
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… Russia. The first prizes were awarded five years after his death in five categories, namely chemistry, physics, …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… only in the newspaper Isigidimi samaXhosa; after his death, W.B. Rubusana included nine pieces in his anthology …
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was stoned and stabbed to death after disclosing on a local radio show that she had …
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… Africa to escape Nazi persecution. After his father’s death, Levinsky , his siblings and mother, emigrated to …
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… in 1929, only five years after their marriage. After his death, she taught art in schools throughout Cape Town. She …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… in him. Kabila became President of Zaire after the death of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997. He wasted no time in …
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… directly?” What sort of a doctor was this? After Steve Biko, a charismatic student leader of the Black Consciousness … be free, had been killed and two…
PlaceMzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
… 1868 following a long period of ill health, but his death was kept a secret by his chief councillors and some of … and taken to Mhlahlandlela where on the…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… to perform and serve as a goodwill ambassador until her death on 9 November 2008. …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… action. Madikizela-Mandela was implicated in Seipei's death but has consistently maintained her innocence. …
EventMaxwell Mlilo, South African actor, dies of diabetes
… dramas like Tsha Tsha and Home Affairs. Just before his death, Mlilo was well known for his role as Ngconde in the …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… member of the Cape Town City Council (from 1905-1940). His death raised concern within the Black, Coloured and Indian …
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… had been killed there. Retief and his men were clubbed to death. It is alleged by some that the reason why they were …
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… She moved to Amsterdam in 1966, and lived there until her death in 2007. Her poetry was mainly written in Afrikaans, …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… and prime minister on 2 September 1958, following the death of Adv. J.G. Strijdom. On 3 September, in his first …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… was defeated and fled to Denge, where he met his untimely death. …
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… unit. I visited him often over the years until his death in October 2006. He was never aware of Mahlangu’s fate … the public wanted more and the State was…
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… least three cases, weapons were planted at the scene after death. It also needs to be noted that senior officers of the … Captain … was that, in the…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… Nations and which has as its primary aim the punishment by death of people who are among South Africa`s most outstanding … show that a person accused of…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… to be an outspokenly brave man. After the murder of Steve Biko in detention, he was one of the leading representatives … sharply criticised the medical…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… in her biography is certainly her implication in the death of the 14-year-old child activist Stompie Seipei, who … prison. Madikizela-Mandela denied…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… Aide-de-camp and Manager of his private office until his death on 5 December 2013. In 2014, she published her memoirs …
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… in Afrikaans. In just 10 days of rioting, the official death toll was 174 Blacks and two Whites. The number of …