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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 …
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…
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,…
EventShaka Zulu is murdered
… brief period as king of the Zulu people, from 1816. His death came a year after his mother's death. …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… government provided him with political asylum until his death in 1981. [viii] As illustrated through almost half a … racism, particularly with the advent of…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… the 1950s and into the 1960s due to bannings, exile and death. Since all Black resistance and action was under …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Voters Association (CAVA), and the Transkei Organised Bodies. Its supporters abroad, at one stage, included such … elements, including the main architects of…
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…
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…
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 …
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… scenery, changing weather conditions. On 26th October, 1948, Godfrey Edmonds (an ex Royal Air Force , Spitfire …
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. …
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…
Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… Project: Phakamile Mabija Margaret Philpott Project: The Death of Tshifhiwa Muofhe Christopher Washington Project: …
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… position of "shield-bearers to the king". After Nyabele's death in 1903, his family moved away, leaving behind one of …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… leaders, but still the mass action raged. By 9 April the death toll had risen to 83 non-White civilians and three …
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…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the recently formed United … self admitted 'warlord' terrorising the Richmond…