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Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide
… Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide with Republic Day. … Matthews Thobela were later granted…
EventGhana’s Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in SA, are defeated by Uruguay
… the first African nation to progress to the semi-finals of the world cup. Of the 32 countries that participated in the 2010 FIFA World … the only African…
PlaceKhwe Living Museum, Namibia
… set up by:: 'Living Culture Foundation Namibia', with native communities in Namibia with the aim of preserving the native languages and cultural traditions…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… and Labrador. She is a Labrador Inuk and a beneficiary of the Nunatsiavut landclaim. She completed her Bachelor of … in South Africa. Project: Timeline of…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… hole. She finds herself at a crossroad in a topsy-turvy land. She asks a caterpillar seated on a toadstool the way. … that the Balfour Declaration and the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… Who are the hunter gatherers of Southern Africa? You may be under the impression that … were also able to force the Khoi and San off their land. Because of…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of … of the apartheid regime. Hendrik Verwoerd…
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… The flag of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) or Chartered … Company's forces, led by Major Patrick Forbes, drove the native Ndebele from the town. The…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 … clean. We know the burden of looking after children and land…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban descent, which made him mixed race in South Africa … was also a talented writer and wrote…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… Senghor was a poet and writer who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted … joined the French army. He later…
113 people are killed when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips a building on the end of the runway at Cotonou, Benin and ends up in
… when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips a building on the end of the runway at Cotonou, Benin and ends up in the Atlantic … when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the … of the amaXhosa in South Africa is the…
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… a political activist, journalist, lawyer and a co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC). His funeral service was conducted by the bishop of…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), renamed the African … differences between…
Glossary: Local History
… Account A record or description of past events. Archaeology The study of pre-historic people and their culture. Banished Forced to … is present in great…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… on this day: “That this House strongly disapproves of sending coloured men and natives from South Africa to … war or otherwise.” This motion was against the…
Editorial on taxation, in November 10, 1884 [Extract]
… [Extract] What the effect of muzzling a race of people, used to settling differences … to solve. We yield to no one in our anxiety to see the Native people…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… activist. 16 November 2023, marks the 163rd anniversary of the arrival in South Africa of indentured labourers from … could be found on the coast of Natal —…
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… had been approved. The scheme involved the conversion of Newclare, the Western Native Township and the Southern part of Claremont to 'Coloured' townships,…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… and the seventh woman laureate in the near-century history of the Nobel Prize. Gordimer is the author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories; her work…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need … Black Consciousness. The Extension of…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial … 20th century, the British aspired to find various methods of “educating” the…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this … undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill of 1930…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … state. By this time, policies, such as the…
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
… rape trial in which President Jacob Zuma was acquitted of rape, there wasn’t much in common in Zuma or Khwezi’s … Saturday evening, when four young women…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world. Therefore, what … black girls dead. 1964: Congress…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in … D.Phil. from a South African…