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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, November 1949. Source The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was …
PlaceCalvinia
… A fine example of a Class 24 steam locomotive, built in 1949 by the North British Locomotive Company, which was used …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
EventInternational Nurses Day.
… nurses day is celebrated around the world every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, who … place between October 1853 and…
PlaceLighthouse, Beach Road, Green Point
… of its kind in South Africa, and was officially opened on 12 April 1824. The original building consisted of a tower … declared a National Monument under old…
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…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… to the surrounding Informal Settlements and is made of 12 corrugated iron boxes. It was opened on the 10th of November 2006 The Museum comprises a series of…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television news on 17 October 1985, the SAP defended their alleged ambush of … ANC vigilantes allegedly killed…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… to all alike. (8)By virtue of the provisions of Act 17 of 1895, those that come under indenture and their … fear of prosecution for failure to pay this tax…