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EventUnFreedom Day
… AbM, 2009. Abahlali baseMjondolo to Mourn UnFreedom Day on 27 April 2009. [Online] Available at: …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Valkenberg Hospital is a psychiatric Hospital …
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port Elizabeth, situated in the Cape Colony …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… tortured and released after 251 days. Five years later, on 27 June 1986, when he was the editor of the New Nation, …
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… in post-apartheid South Africa. Alexander passed away on 27 August 2012 in Cape Town . …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student organisation, served an important role in unifying and voicing student protests against…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone achieved its independence on 27 April 1961. Sources: "August 22nd in History". Website: …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… national and international acclaim. Motswai was born on 27 May 1963, in Soweto, South of Johannesburg. Although he …
EventKenya is granted independence
… nation. This followed the first all inclusive elections on 27 May 1963. A year later Kenya was declared a Republic. The …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… on slave and indigene heritage. Having left school 27 years earlier without a full high school education he felt …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… made peace overtures, but his envoys were turned away on 27 June, and the British army marched on to Ulundi. On 4 …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… made peace overtures, but his envoys were turned away on 27 June, and the British army marched on to Ulundi. On 4 …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… Muriel Anne Died aged 4 months. Johnston, George Died: 27 Nov 1917 Low, Clementina Died: 28 Dec 1916 Note: … Like most South African Towns, Barberton prior…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… apparent value between white "flesh" and black "flesh". [27] An example of the banality of the institutional racism … Leone became independent of Britain a…
EventMadikizela Mandela is accused of misuse of funds
… to her by Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1994. The claim was made by eleven members of the League who …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… Africa's first national democratic elections held in April 1994, the president of the African National Congress (ANC), … Ndabam D., (1994), ' The world at…
ArchiveWorking in the apartheid city: worker struggles in Durban, 1959-1979
… in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban, 1994. According to the author, his study explores the …
ArticleThe Johanna
… of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked on her journey on 27 February 1682, carrying a crew of 110, 36 guns, …
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
… Jacob Mzizi, 47, Tsakane, from East Rand Mduduzi Thomo, 27, from Jabulani, Soweto Lefa James Lefera, no age given, …
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… More recent initiatives by the post 1994 SA government to establish a media tribunal have been … unrest that lasted until the first democratic elections in…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… international community remained reluctant to classify the 1994 slaughter as a ‘genocide,’ as the label would require an … the Rome Statute of the…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… attitudes that underpinned apartheid didn’t disappear in 1994 — they mutated: it became impolite for some to say that … try to wish this away. Nor was the…
EventMinister of Public Works Stella Sigcau dies
… age of 69. Sigcau died of a recurring heart problem. In 1994 first-post apartheid government she was appointed …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… platform, or a political party which contested power. On 27 July 2013, the EFF National Assembly convened at Uncle …
ArticleThe Western Front
… suffered heavy casualties. Second Battle of Ypres 22 – 27 May April 1915: First use of poison gas by the German …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… from the Germans. Only 750 men survived the battle. 27 August Romania enters the war on the side of the Allies, …
The War
… rural enemy. They underestimated the Boers who only had 27 000 men in their commandos. During the early stages of the …
EventAndrew Vusi Fasedemi is born
… at Cadbury, Nigeria, before he came to South Africa in 1994. …
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… known as Barkly Cottage , it was bought by Rhodes on 27 February 1899 from the deceased estate of JR Reid. …
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… for disenfranchising Indians. On the previous day (27 June 1894) Indian and civil rights fighter, Mahatma …