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EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… the Muslim community with no alternate burial ground. On 17 January 1886, in defiance of the closure, 3000 Muslims …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… and the composition of his Cabinet was announced on 17 June 1999. << Previous Next >> …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… apartheid policy was an offensive in its own right. In 1949 the ANC committed itself to a programme of militant … South Africa he was sentenced and…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… have stopped their tactical operation after the killing of 17 miners at "scene one". Instead, police continued to another koppie, "scene two", where a…
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…
Learning about history through writing
… South Africa wins the tournament, defeating New Zealand 15-12. Following South Africa's victory, Nelson Mandela, the …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 128,071 245,535 17,492 53,205 1948 .. … males .. 2 0 0 3 4 4 4 12 10 6 7 9…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… people. It served a row of five rooms, each about 14 by 12 feet in size. When it rained, the yard was as muddy as a … Farming, Forestry, Fishing Mining…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… beer, or utshwala. The riots in Cato Manor began on 17 June 1959, when a demonstration of African women forced … and were dispersed by the police. To read…
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…
PlaceThe Space
… “The Story of The Space”, Theatre of Survival, Accessed 17 April 2017, … “The Story of The Space”, Theatre of Survival, Accessed 17 April 2017, … “The Story…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… City of Durban. Stanger was granted Municipal Status, in 1949 and was given the significant name change to KwaDukuza …
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… which caused great dissatisfaction among the Baganda. By 1949, many nationalist movements had sprung up in numerous …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… culminated in a huge mass meeting in Johannesburg, held on 17 March. 5 000 men, women and children came from all corners … emphasised at a mass election…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, November 1949. Source The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was …
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi pastoralists who…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… 4 days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers arrested President Moussa Traoré and … A draft constitution was approved in a…
PlaceNiger
… and famine of 1913–15 and the Tuareg uprising of 1916–17 , that the French felt safe enough to establish a regular … until 1954–55 the French administration…
PlaceElands Bay Cave
… The term taphonomy was introduced to paleontology in 1949 by Soviet scientist Ivan Efremov to describe the study …
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…
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…
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…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… MDGs into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs together with 167 targets and 300 indicators, which … that South Africa has entered into…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… were also established namely; Grey College which opened on 17 January 1858, the so-called Dames Instituut or Eunice …
The Cape Northern Frontier
The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th century the Dutch at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San peoples. The Dutch…
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…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… for economic and labour-market failure. Kindly RSVP by 12 May 2014 Cape Town : HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… Mobilization on Sanctions against South Africa 12 May 1991 — The Second International Symposium on Cultural …
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… African Republic is defaced as red paint is thrown on it. 12 April, The bust of Fernando Pessoa, a poet who lived in …
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… separate raids on Marabastad location near Pretoria netted 17 150 gallons of beer and 8 524 gallons of skokiaan (ibid, … climbed from 46 018 to 63 728 (Rand…