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EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu … Inkatha Freedom Party support bases. In…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Ethiopia is Zion and the Promised Land and in 1948 Selassie granted them land in the Rift Valley for a … in his palace. His overthrow in 1974 and subsequent…
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… and a third, also Israeli, later in the day. Two more bodies - both killed on board the plane - were also pushed …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… was the governing party of South Africa from June 4th 1948 until May 9th 1994, and was disbanded in 2005... …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… and became Minister of Justice when the NP won the 1948 election. In this capacity, Swart played a great role in …
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… Historically the Khoisan used Buchu to anoint their bodies and chewed the leaves to relieve stomach complaints. …
ArchiveReview since last Conference
… to SACC regarding the review of the conference about the death of Steve Biko. Also asking the authority to institute the judicial inquiry into Steve's death…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Keith Wallace, who was allegedly killed by BOSS’ Secret Death Squad, also known as the Z- Squad. A.H. Bouwer was … Mr, Mike Kuhn. Z- Squad The Z- Squad,…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… during first day of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – The man who was arrested alongside late … on Monday during the first sitting of…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… Community organisations, trade unions and student bodies combine forces to challenge the government. Although …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… even says that all black prisoners could suffer a violent death. Although black men are the only ones that are taken …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… international airport. He was buried two days after his death in a funeral attended by only family members and foreign diplomats. Mainassara's death was…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… von Lindequist, arrives to take his place. After the death Hendrik Witbooi, the Witbooi finally surrender to the … camp in South-West Africa. It is given the…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… epidemic followed a series of calamities that included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the … friends and relatives for having…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… all soon die out. Apart from loss of access to land, and death by violent force of arms, infectious diseases like … placed on public display. In 1976, on the…
EventShaka Zulu is murdered
… brief period as king of the Zulu people, from 1816. His death came a year after his mother's death. …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… from his student days to just a few days before his death, significantly broadens our understanding of a seminal … League until he was formally elected…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Mayor Jacob Kuzwayo Dlamini, who was beaten and burnt to death by an angry mob on 3 September 1984. They faced … arrested, tried and sentenced. They spent…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's death. The documents were disclosed in TRC meetings with the … in Zambia, killing them instantly. At…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… South African lawyer Neville Rubin, established several bodies to effect these money transfers: 1. The Freedom … issued a statement from Lusaka denying…
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… completed in 1945 at a cost of £22 000. On the 17 April 1948 marked the beginning or first Public viewing and an …
V - The Funeral
… speaker after speaker warn the government that Biko's death had pushed blacks further towards violence in their … he was a good father, but above all he was…
PlaceRondevlei Nature Reserve
Rondevlei Nature Reserve lies in Grassy Park, which makes it sound like a rather large grassy area when in fact the nature reserve is anything but. Rather, it…
XI - The Verdict
… in which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death of Biko: Van Lieres: The real inquiry at this inquest … the police, doctors or prison officials,…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… South African facts. A resonant survey of his work from 1948 to 2009 at the Jewish Museum, records the everyday … “South African Photographs: David Goldblatt…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… or workers' organisations. Mr. B. J. Schoeman, who in 1948 when the Nationalist Government came to power, was … the poorer for it". (Hansard, Vol. II, Col…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death. Biehl was driving three co-workers to their homes in … on the head with a brick. Amy was beaten and…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… her husband, the respected Posthouder, into a premature death. Thus shaken awake she found no hooks to hold her at …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… Prison). Started at noon a perpetual and fast unto death, from food of any kind, save water with or without salt …