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PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… photography in this country. It was donated to the city in 1968 and forms part of Museum Africa . The collection …
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… offered as a subject. He left Lamontville High School in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the African …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… the journey to independence was underway. On 12 October 1968, Equatorial Guinea became an independent state with …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… to have worked in the mines among African tribes [11] . Workers worked under exploitative conditions as the … jobs and did not have problems with working…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… a province in Southern China, in November 2002. [11] By February 2003 it had spread to two-dozen other … approximately 8 098 people (with 774 reported…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… opened in 1927. Langa is located on the Cape Flats , 11 km South East of the centre of Cape Town in the Western … On the other hand the Mfengu celebrations,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… The Immorality Amendment Act No 21 of 1950 is passed. May 14, Representatives from the South African Indian Congress, … oppose and go forward to a truly…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… from the Clothing and Furniture industries and a staff of 11 from both Pietermaritzburg and Durban. In its first year …
Karen Nieuwoudt
I was born on the 11th of September 1965. I grew up in Johannesburg in an Afrikaans family. I went to the University Of Pretoria where I obtained a BA Degree. …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… rule ends after a coup removes the government in Portugal 11 November 1975 Angola attains official independence. … of Angola where it is based. By…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… requested an armistice. The war finally came to end on 11 November when an armistice was signed. The Russian … the demonstration joined the protestors. Tsar…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… tried to gain a sense of equity through his lifetime. On 11 February 1946, Dube passed away. Vil-Nkomo summed up his …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… composed and recorded many new songs; including his 1968 number one hit "Grazing in the Grass", which won him a …
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… President Massamba-DÁƒÂƒ©bat during a military coup in 1968. Initially Ngouabi appointed Alfred Raoul as Prime …
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… the Wankie and Sipolilo battles which continued until late 1968. Fearing possible leakage of information to the …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… a PhD in English, Linguistics and German languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York …
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… an African Communist pamphlet (London:SACP, n.d. [circa 1968-1969]. *Kasrils, R., Unpublished autobiographical … Supreme Court of South Africa, Natal…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… and it was seldom pronounced without symptoms of joy .” [11] One must also keep in mind that with the looming threat … lonely and having had his freedom…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… to call a general strike in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 14 August. The Johannesburg City Council sent a deputation to … the Witwatersrand, 21 mines were…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is passed. This law made it possible for the … Free State." All Indian businesses are forced…
Concluding Remarks
… Consciousness. A neglect of overtly political art from 1968 to 1976 is also evident in Matsemela Manaka's Echoes of … to tell the culture to resist!" (…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… and to re-detain them after this period had expired. 11 Through the use of these powers, the entire leadership of … white population groups,' was…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… the war and peace negotiations begun in March 1902. On 11 April 1902 preliminary meetings among Boer representatives …
Indian education in Natal
… schools. 1902 According to the Colonial Indians News (14/02/1902 - A New Hindu School), owing to the deep seated … to Government Higher Grade Schools by the…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… permission had been granted. It was repealed by section 11 of the Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, Act No 95 of … Representation of Voters Amendment ,…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… could not classify or define them (Feldstein 27-32). In 1968 Makeba married Stokley Carmichael. He was Trinidadian … as well, she became too big of a…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by the events of 1968, and returned to South Africa increasingly influenced by …
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… Nigeria, would mean certain death. On 13 of April 1968, Tanzania became the first country to recognise the … Biafra, [online], Available at: biafraland.com …
EventThe first episode of Star Trek is aired on NBC
… "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on 22 November 1968. Star Trek became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, its …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… disease similar to leprosy known as the Mkar disease. From 1968 onwards, Kok published a number of works in which many …