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EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… pen-and-ink or crayon. About four years before his death in 2006, it was alleged that forgeries were printed and …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people. 26 370 Boer women and children …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… 2007 he married Kundi Jangano in Khartoum. After his death on 3 January 2008, his body was returned to South …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No machine capable of drilling holes large …
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… hypocrisy and no more than cheap politicking on life-and-death issues. Buthelezi's statement came out despite the four …
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… (mainly 20th century) archival holdings is provided. Steve Biko Foundation University of Cape Town: Manuscripts & …
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… is a tragedy on an epic level. The official figure of the death toll to white Boer women and children in the camps is … erosion of Boer culture and the…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… branch wanted to destroy the whole family, as Dweba's death was becoming a matter of public scrutiny. He was buried … orders of, unknown security forces…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was completely abolished, bringing an end to a …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. The Queen of England, who was …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… November), Taaibosch was killed at Dawidsberg. After the death of Taaibosch, the Basotho army overwhelmed the Batlokwa …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… ties with Moscow. In the entire discourse on the death of Lumumba, the role of the United Nations is seldom …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was considered the rightful heir to the Ngwato …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… purpose of the group. Mahlangu was then sentenced to death. In addition, Motloung was so badly beaten in …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… was then forced to eat their oxen and walk back, or face death. They eventually returned to the Cape on 22 January …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… Another corpse was found later, bringing the total death toll to nineteen. The explosion did not disrupt mining, …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… conditions, malnutrition, diseases and in many instances, death. The scorched earth policy had been implemented by …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… children and 1 676 elderly men, died in these camps. The death toll in Black concentration camps, housing Africans who …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… who ill-treated his wives and was responsible for the death of one of his children, while another tradition …
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Selassie had died on 27 August 1975, but the cause of his death remained a mystery. There were rumours of complications …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Tshombe was taken to Algeria where he remained until his death on 29 June 1969. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… dislocation that led to alcoholism, violence, and early death. [21] In 2009 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in … aligned itself with the Hitlers Nazi…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… I thought such things happen to people only after their death. SD: So Gogo, are you telling us that you did not know … IFP area known as Mshayazafe, which…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… of brutal persecution: Chief Albert Luthuli - his brutal death is still unexplained. Caleb Mayekiso - who killed him … Solwandle, Lenkoe and others - they…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… of brutal persecution: Chief Albert Luthuli - his brutal death is still unexplained. Caleb Mayekiso - who killed him … Solwandle, Lenkoe and others - they…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… is your own son and daughter that we bury every week-end. Death has become a common thing to us all in the townships. … dealers to obey this call. We cannot…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 years … of Umkhonto we Sizwe the uncompromising motto…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… into the uncompromising warrior pledge - Victory or Death! Let us cast our minds back to those days, 25 … of Umkhonto we Sizwe the uncompromising motto:…