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… Charles Ndizeye, the Burundian royal heir, announces that his father, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, is to abdicate on his behalf. …

… Following his victory at the general elections in which his party, the Transkei National Independent Party (TNIP) won …

… a gold medal winner in the 1999 Comrades, admits his brother ran sections of the race in his place. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:   Lord Kitchener publishes his most famous of what the Boers call his ‘paper bombs’, proclaiming that all o …

… Nelson Mandela requests that his wife, Winnie, visit him at Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, to discuss arrangements for his relea …

… In his first major speech since his election as Transvaal leader Dr A.P. Treurnicht revives …

… Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini …

… BBC reports that Mangosuthu Buthelezi has lost his job as home affairs minister after his Inkatha Freedom Party fought a bitter …

…  one of international cricket's most unusual members, made his Test debut - for South Africa  vs Australia at Durban in … Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) at a time when many of his contemporaries plied their trade overseas. When Zimbabwe … was finally admitted to the fold in 1992, Traicos, despite his age, was still far and away the best off-spinner in the …

… and her mother Helen, have played active roles in opposing apartheid. While at school at Rustenburg Girls High in … She was involved in the Wages Commission, doing support work for independent black trade unions, and in worker … teacher for the Adult Learning Project. Through this work, most of it involving evening classes in Crossroads, she …

… of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he had worked at his trade in England. In 1884 he founded The South African Illustrated News in Cape Town with a few partners. His drawings, often in a humorous vein, recorded daily life … the AngloBoer War, he also reflected the conflict in his work. In 1902 and 1903, he showed with the revived SASA on …

… Present stage of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa June 1968 Twenty years ago last … of a state of cordial relations between a white master and his black servant. Nor are they adopted merely to maintain a … great apostle of non-violence who founded and perfected his methods of struggle in South Africa, often said that he …

… a very young age and was regularly hospitalised throughout his adult life for psychiatric treatment. He grew up in a … in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father had business interests in a range of companies … opposed to Afrikaner Nationalism and was convinced that apartheid was ‘a monster’ that would drag South Africa …

… which to build a love revolution, from their more personal work, to creating relationships and gathering collaborators … photographer at the Mail & Guardian newspaper where their work won several awards. As a photojournalist, their interest … various other news publications Exhibitions After Apartheid: 8 SA Documentary Photographers, 2002 Cape Town …

… Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed  Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the philosophical framework of Gordon's … from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with …

… (MK) and underwent military training in Ethiopia. On his way back to South Africa, he was captured in Rhodesia … Africa he was imprisoned on Robben Island. While serving his sentence, Fazzie practised as an unofficial surgeon, … leaders to have waged a massive offensive against apartheid through a campaign of a total consumer boycott of …

… (ANC) and became involved in political protest against Apartheid. He left South Africa in 1962 and went into exile … and Germany. While living in Germany he married his first wife, Esther, and they had two daughters, Nomusa … Eventually Mzimela moved to the United States to study for his Master of Divinity degree at the General Theological …

… and France,trained as a journailst and in 1959 went to work for weekly Times of Brazil.The family settled in Brazil … years in South Africa. It was hard for her to process the apartheid system and its policies. She has recounted in … involved in the Black Sash in 1965. Black Sash was an anti-apartheid organisation that comprised of mostly White middle …

… Motloung started his primary schooling at Mmuso Lower Primary School in 1965. Ten years later, in 1975, Motloung went to pursue his secondary education at Esibonelwesihle Secondary School. … Johannesburg. They were spotted on their way to Soweto by apartheid agents and police and were cornered at John Orr’s …

… in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising … 1972 - 1975 at the Dlangezwa High School where he took his matric.  From 1969 - 1973 he attended the Ndaleni … Centre, Durban Art Gallery and the Funda Art Centre. His work is represented in public and private art collections in …

… years in prison which he served on Robben Island . On his release in 1972, he was placed under a banning order and … the trial collapsed and he was acquitted and released. On his release he went into exile in Maputo and began working … he highlighted the plight of Black South Africans under Apartheid. On 1 May 1980, Khanyile and John Nkadimeng led a …

… of the Apartheid banning order that restricted him to his hometown of King Williamstown by traveling to Cape Town , … in the notorious Security Police. But the success of his work as a spy for Apartheid was a stepping stone to greater … the ANC and heavily influenced by Mandela and Arch Bishop Tutu to begin to reconcile South Africans from 350 years of …

… obituarists of Chaskalson, while correctly underlining his legal pre-eminence, his innate modesty and his abiding commitment to social justice, have diminished his … Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012 …

… Anti-Apartheid Student Activism at Brown University …

… Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his work at the Two Sisters Orphanage since the 1990s, will …

… died in 1966, while plans were being made to exhibit her work at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. The exhibition was … me to see how the natural picturesqueness of the native in his kraal had almost disappeared ”¦ Today he has submitted to … garb ”¦ to those of us who saw the beauty of the native in his natural state the change is sad. The ‘sad change’ in the …

… Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle class. His family were descendants of African slaves who had been brought to the Caribbean to work on the sugar plantations. He lost his father Casimir in …

… 1903. As a young boy Kibel was preoccupied with carving. His father’s death in 1911 brought sudden insecurity to Kibel … health from an impoverished lifestyle. He was advised by his mentor to and settled in Palestine, as he lacked travel … respectively. Subsequently, a number of exhibitions of his work occurred in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Art …

… The Alabama, American raider, captures the Northern bark, Sea Bride, …

… world press speculates that a bright flash detected by an American satellite between SA and the Antarctic was caused by …