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… Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. The first ship the Truro arrived on 16 November 1860 and the last ship, the …

… away when he was young and Abrahams was sent to live in the rural village of Elsburg. 1926 At the age of seven Abrahams mother retrieves him from Elsburg … Abrahams helps out by selling firewood and working at the smithy. 1930 At the age of 11 Abrahams is exposed to …

… a cultural figure such as Mr. Semenya, an understanding of the social environment in South Africa is essential. The White minority rule of South Africa and the institution of racial segregation, otherwise known as …

… ‘Mbizo’ Dyani was a jazz musician who performed during the apartheid era. He played for almost his entire career in exile before passing away in West Berlin, Germany at the age of 39. Dyani actively fought against the apartheid regime through the medium of music and assisted …

… these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the languages of the oppressors. Any one language, English, …

… various jobs since completing school, including working in the local shipyards, as a computer operator, a … amongst other things. In 1983, Omar Badsha taught him the basics of photography and he started working at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later at the New …

… STATEMENT To strengthen constitutional democracy through the delivery of free and fair elections in which every voter … to record his or her informed choice. MISSION STATEMENT The Independent Electoral Commission is a permanent body created by the Constitution to promote and safeguard democracy in South …

… South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a … every five years. However, because of limited resources at the Department of Statistics South Africa (SSA), the interval period was extended to 10 years. The …

… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in … were remunerated at a higher rate than plantation workers. The second largest agricultural activity was tea growing, which according to the Clayton Report of 1909 employed 1 722 indentured Indians. …

… In the early hours of the morning of 16 December 1838, a battle was fought between the Voortrekkers, under the leadership of Andries Pretorius , …

… CAPAB was instituted to promote the performing arts in the Cape Province . Operational costs for CAPAB, the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT), the …

… The Predecessor of this left-wing publication was The Guardian. The Guardian itself was founded in 1937 by trade unionists, …

… to societal change that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa'. Born in 1957 in Nongoma, KwaZulu, … Mangete and Baynesfield. I began photography in Durban in the early eighties, my initial impetus being to document the realities of apartheid that I thought were being ignored …

… 25 May 1646 : His father, Adrian van der Stel dies in the line of duty and the family moves to Batavia. 1659 : Maria Leviens remarries … 1663 : Simon van der Stel marries Johanna Jacoba Six, the couple have six children. 12 October 1679 : Van der Stel …

… long before that date. This special project examines the Freedom Struggle from the beginning of the 20th century up until South Africa's first democratic …

… The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the organisation had been active in …

… 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of Africa” which wins him the University’s highest oratorical accolade, the George William Curtis medal. April, Seme graduates with a …

… The mineral discoveries that launched its industrial revolution between the late 1860's and the end of the 1890's were crucial in the shaping of modern …

… The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was regionally … supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline States. These were Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, … Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and, from 1980, Zimbabwe. The Frontline States were formed in 1970 to co-ordinate their …

… Who is SAAAH? About SAAAH The South African Association of Art Historians (SAAAH), founded in 1984, is the major professional association of art historians in this … history in South Africa, and to promote and uphold the status of the profession in the fields of history, theory …

… away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily moving forward in a direction … humanity, a new culture of human rights and a respect for the dignity of the human spirit have become characteristics …

… The Thupelo workshops were initiated in 1985 in Johannesburg by the South African artist, David Nthubu Koloane , together … and a group of artists. Koloane had been a participant in the first Triangle Network artists’ workshop in New York in …

… victim. Julesburg clinic. Northern Province. © Liam Lynch The occurrence of domestic violence has always been … domestic violence is not limited to female members of the family, statistics show that women are most affected by … and abuse is most commonly practiced in families where the father is the only source of income, because the entire …

… On 13 November 2001 the Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs Mr Sipho Pityana launched the "Africa to Africa" cultural exchange programme. The …

… Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective During the past few years the Johannesburg Art Gallery has focused attention on black … who were sidelined, staging large retrospectives of the likes of Dumile Feni and, more recently, Kay Hassan. …

… is a deadly disease, which is currently not curable. The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was … on World AIDS Day. |Mandela, N (2000), Closing Address at the 13th International AIDS Conference .|Bazilli, S., Bond, …

… The birth of the Industrial and Commercial Union of South Africa (ICU) came about after the ICU strike in Cape Town when African labour leader, H … Msimang convened a general meeting in Bloemfontein, with the blessing of the SANNC. Present at the meeting were …

… young at 28. Activist Dennis Brutus called Nortje “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. and to Canada. When he …

… a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) in … knowns as Mshengu or Kavanagh) - who was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) - to run the workshop. … Fuchs, Anne. Playing the Market: The Market Theatre, Johannesburg. Pp,26. 2002 …