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PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian House, houses an abundance of …
ArchiveSome reflections of civilisation in Africa
… Africa, with reference to the social and economic history of large parts of Africa; with specific details on …
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… one of the most significant political figures in Egyptian history. He was well-known for his Arab nationalist and … Boddy-Evans A. (2011), ‘This Day in…
PlaceMandela House
… St. The museum includes interactive exhibits on the history of the house and some interesting family photos. …
EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… On 11 March 1960, for the first time in the history of South Africa, the Republican Referendum Bill was … pg 1.|SAHO, Pieter Willem Botha , from South…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… in 1990. No other runner has achieved this record in the history of the Comrades Marathon race. Fordyce has completed …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… demand for a negotiated settlement from South African History Online available at www.sahistory.org.za Wallis, F. …
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… of the UDF in the Western Cape. Source: South African History Online. website: www.sahistory.org.za …
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… famine. The 1984 famine was one of the worst in Ethiopian history. In 2002 humanitarian agencies announced that …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… 1998 described him as a policeman "who already had a long history of human rights violations as chief interrogator of …
EventDynamite explosion in Braamfontein
… One of the worst explosions in the history of South Africa occurred at Braamfontein station, …
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… nuclear weapons by the South Africa government. The history of nuclear energy in the country can be traced to …
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. History repeated itself when she was re-elected in November …
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history of the movement in Swaziland. A number of events, … (Accessed: 24 October 2012)| South…
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… In the second worst bus accident in South African history, a double decker school bus with seventy-six learners …
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… and Nokwe was conducted at a very difficult time in the history of the ANC as it was banned along with other … www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 12 January…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior …
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to workers’ … there have been relatively few that have…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… results in the exams ”” he passed in English and American history, but failed the mathematics test – Xuma was admitted … Matthews , Bram Fischer , and…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… it is necessary to take a brief journey back into our history, into some of the many monumental and epoch-making … This is the spirit with which we have to…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… with the Divine. Much literature abounds of the teachings, history and practices of the Sufi sages of ancient Persia and … and holy man [6] ,who would later…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… of the profound but simple fact that, complex as history may have made our society, we are one people with one … they are opening the way to knowledge in…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… domain archival and other documents that relate to the history of the SACP and other left formations; promote new … in South Africa and internationally…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… (Date accessed 02.04.2016). ↵ [viii] Anon. South African History Online, ‘Delegation and dialogue between ANC and …
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… the VOC (Dutch East India Company) altered the course of history in the Cape Colony. The first was to release a group …
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… indicated violence involved in death and family denied any history of epilepsy. Late 84/early 85 Korotsoane, Tatlheho …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… career, Du Bois was an advocate for the study of African history and culture. In the early twentieth century, he was …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… been remembered, commemorated, and memorialised as public history. There have been different ways and forms through …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… of North Ndebele Identity, 1957-1986 . Johannesburg: History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand. LOUBSER, …
ArticleThe Basotho
… his people the Suthu, Basotho or Basuto? In cultures where history and tradition are orally transferred from generation …