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A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… Long before the arrival of French influence and control in the area, Niger was an important economic crossroads, and … which had gained control of much of…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… t was in 1996 that a court challenge led to the first government … to provide 6 000 litres of water to its poor residents in 1997, at a rate of R8,30 a month…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The … of the foundation of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Nearby in…
PlaceGriquatown
… In 1802 William Anderson and Cornelius Kramer, of the London … Thesite proved to be too arid for cultivation, and in about 1805 theymoved the stationto…
Address on Receiving the Freedom of the City of Kingston Jamaica, 30 June 2003
… extended to us by the wonderful people of Jamaica, and in particular, its capital city, Kingston. I am deeply moved … This City produced some of the most…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Glossary
… The Department of Education 916 AD is the same as AH 304 in the Islamic calendar alienate - to cause to feel isolated; … being basket trap - Fish traps of…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1952 the ANC decided that we are going to organize a … same time. It was a very big thing…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… In a statement‚ Gildenhuys Malatji Attorneys said Gordhan … assistance they might require and scrupulously acted in accordance with the law”. It went on to…
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
… speak to you today, on Christmas Eve, the first Christmas in almost 30 years that I have been able to spend with my … prisoner. Wherever you are, I trust…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
… social spending and failure to create jobs, the deadlock in negotiations over the Basic Condition of Employment Bill … working poor as well as the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela opening the morals summit called by the National Religious Leaders’Forum Johannesburg, 22 October 1998
… to the reconstruction and development of our country, and in particular to its moral renewal, we did so with no … nation with the leaders of its main…
Early Beginnings
… yet been finally disposed of though the Negro Commission (in which the matter was discussed at some length though not … final position. However, as a result…
PlacePaarl
… of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in 1839. Like Stellenbosch its economy was based upon the production of wine, although in some areas…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
… Distinguished Guests, Today marks a historic moment in the life of our country, of the region north of Durban and … Shaka International Airport. It is a…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… has played to realise the values of democracy and freedom in our country. I receive it as a tribute to the valiant … whose struggle for liberty and justice…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… of transformation, a time of change or prospective change in South Africa as a whole as well as in this university, we all have a responsibility, wherever we…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… ”” the longest sentence yet served by Passive Resisters in the present struggle. This pamphlet attempts to give you … united support of the entire Indian…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos … 2 and the working class strata of European population in general but…
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Pietermaritzburg, 2-7 Dec 1984. Discusses the activities in broad terms in respect of the mobilisation of the student community and in political involvement,…
EventSouth African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe is born
… Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born in Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. She is most famous for writing … and music for children. Some of her…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. She came under the tutelage of one Miss … her life to…
EventSouth African swimmer, Penny Heyns, wins a gold Medal at Atlanta Olympics
… Penelope Penny Heyns was born on 8 November 1974 in Springs, Gauteng Province. Heyns began swimming at a young … her a bursary to study at the University of…
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country', which was published in 1948 is still in print. Paton was a founding member of the Liberal Party and was much involved in…
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… Pieter Jacobs Marais reports his discovery of alluvial gold in the Jukskei River on B.J. Liebenberg's farm, Bultfontein, in 1853. The site was just north of…
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu was detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then banned African…
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
… Mandela and Madikizela-Mandela were married in 1958, having met the previous year. The couple had two daughters, Zenani born in 1959 and Zindzi born in 1960…
A Place of Freedom
… Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… made between the 1960s and the early 1990s, and belong in the series I call The Structure of Things Then. The newer … Although visually the new photographs…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road in the latter months of 1903. I had arrived from England in August of that year, after taking my…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Ambassadors; Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA conducted a nation wide poll and asked…