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EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a …
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 & …
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… the HRC has become aware of 2 major effects. Firstly, death and injury caused to the community primarily in the … in activities falling outside the…
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…
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…
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. …
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:…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death" Sunday Times Magazine UK Desmond Tutu is ordained the … saying that 'the manner of Nelson Mandela…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… the scent of invisible footsteps into the valley of death I saw fleeing flesh leaving a trail of putrid smells … vampire teeth, life-jettisoned ancestors in…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… die. Miners soon distributed a pamphlet commemorating his death: All civilisation cries Shame! Shame! Shame! On the … would be destroyed. Alarmed by the…