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EventCanadians, Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod discover insulin, saving the lives of many diabetics
… Insulin is a peptide hormone used to treat diabetes for patients that would otherwise die. …
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… assault and other “unnatural acts” and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 9 years suspended. Eventually he …
EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… was the Party’s West Rand Regional Chairperson from 1991 to 2000. Ndlovu was very active in Soweto during the 1990s. …
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… Daily Mail (a newspaper banned in March 1985) that he fled to Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana). Three Months later, …
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… that he wrote The Great Boer War. In 1902 Doyle returned to England. On 7 July 1930 Doyle died of heart disease. …
EventDie Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger
… magazine. One of the reasons the magazine was founded was to financially support the Afrikaans newspaper, Die Burger. …
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… in Pietermaritzburg, during the period January 1954 to December 1957. With effect from January 1958, publication …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here brought together after the necessary …
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… Director in 1996. Ruth Prowse School of Art continues to run in its original Location in Woodstock, Cape Town. …
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… pushing and jostling against each other in a bid to get out of the building. Mr Fikile Kobese, an executive …
PlaceAmanzamnyama, a small size Town in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… 234 registered learners. The school starts with Grade 8 to Grade 12. The subjects taught in school are: English; …
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for the first time …
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National Union, University of …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… of liberal-constitutionalism; Democratic alternatives to the 'Westminster' Model?; The problems of transition and …
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… Studies was founded by Baruch Hirson from 1988-1993, and to a large extent written by him in collaboration with other …
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… of one Miss Schreiner and subsequently dedicated her life to helping the downtrodden and destitute in Cape Town, …
ArchiveThe Higher education of Blacks in the United States
… with the higher education of Blacks". With reference to race relations, he describes the historical developments …
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… as an act of liberation. It called for the MK operatives to be treated as prisoners of war under the protection of the …
PlaceThe Roman Catholic Church, Polokwane
… began in 1895, and the church was completed in 1897. Prior to completion occasional services were held by visiting …
EventBonnie Ntshalintshali, SA artist, is born
… soon shined through and Halsted-Berning encouraged her to pursue her own path. In many of her works, Ntshalintshali …
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993 11. Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994 Part D: In the …
EventGambia gains independence
… this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation to gain independence. The Gambia (officially the Republic of …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… year after the Congress of People met at Kliptown in 1955 to endorse the Freedom Charter and was an attack on the …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… or buildings. He carried out the attacks in a way to achieve maximum propaganda for the African National …
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… the only official national anthem of SA from 2 May 1957 to 20 April 1994, when Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was also …
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… He began his career as a house painter and was inspired to paint by the works he saw in the houses. Maseko gave up …
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of …
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… the Act as Afrikaners's cowardly manner of trying to suppress those that speak against the horrendous deeds of …
EventSA trade unionist Raymond Budd dies
… and talents in various commissions of inquiries relating to his work. It was after attending the twenty-third annual …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… appeal against the conviction and sentence. Click here to read the TRC record on the three convicts' application for …