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Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… and international headlines when they were sentenced to death by hanging, even though they all maintained that they … the murder. There was not enough…
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 …
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 …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
’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…
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 …
EventPoqo members arrested
… Tshweni's men charged at the police, resulting in the death of seven attackers with three constables seriously …
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
… head of excavation at Olduvai, and after her husband's death, began to train her son, Richard, in the field. …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… learners in various schools in South Africa. Her untimely death in 1986 cut her career short. Some of her material was …