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EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… 2013 at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City, presided over by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She was …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… and Theatre Association as well as a member of the city council. Visser is considered quite important in the …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… to flee the country when Tanzanian troops took the capital city Kampala. Note: *it must be noted that this date is …
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… legislation designed to create the new 'apartheid (apart) city' were enacted, namely the Population Registration Act …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… lined by thousands of supporters. On the balcony of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of approximately 50 000 people, …
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… the Old Court House Museum, just a stone’s throw from the City Hall, where the background and development of Natal’s … place …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 10
… only to be re-enactive annually, until it in fact took its place in a very general law passed in 1946. The effect of the … the war General Smuts asked each…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… Route . It is sometimes referred to as: the "friendly city" or the "water sport capital of Africa". Nelson Mandela … breeding colony of the African Penguin …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… duties, black women—both African and Coloured—took their place, while black African males did so in the Witwatersrand …
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… 20 years later - and by supreme irony - the ceremony took place not at Senate House but at Buckingham Palace when … Mandela was in Britain on a State Visit…
English Settlement in South Africa
… based in Cape Town was appointed. The Dutch name of the city Riebeeckstad (Riebeeck’s Town) was eliminated as the …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… a job at the Social Welfare Division of the Johannesburg City Council but does not work there long. She then gets a …
PlaceThe Space
… of its’ Founding Members and supported by the Cape Town City Council, Inner City Development Programme. Currently, The Space Theatre has … place …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… the opposition to the system of Black authorities takes place in the Transkei. 14 March, The defense team opens their … A Nation-wide Stay-At-Home, organized…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) takes place in Cape Town and the party’s manifesto is adopted. The … Act of 1920. June, The third conference of…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of His Inauguration and the 10th Anniversary of Freedom, Pretoria, 27 April 2004
… much that is ugly and repulsive in human society. It was a place in which happiness could only break through in short … streaking across our skies like a…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… the town became Mafikeng. The name in English means "place of rocks". In Setswana , Lefika means rock and Mafika … is a plural. The eng at the end of Mafik…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… Congress National Executive Committee Meeting will take place at an undisclosed venue around Johannesburg from … state of the tripartite alliance. The NEC…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… to a shop and warehouse. In 1981 the then Pietersburg City Council decided to restore the building by rebuilding … place …
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… bassoonist Werner Eichler, a member of the Cape Town City Orchestra, she came to South Africa in 1964. She was …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… 1958 to 1960, she worked as a journalist for the Golden City Post and Drum magazine. At the beginning of 1960, she …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Colonel Mahon and Lord Roberts fought their way into the city and lifted the siege. The British forces were dubbed …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Africa. She made a historic entry into the Johannesburg City Council when she became the first communist to be …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Socialist League). Jewish Trade unionism in the Mother City at the turn of the 20 th century and Uncovers the …
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… he migrated from the poverty-stricken countryside to the city. He lived in Cape Town in a “native location”. He … the politics of national liberation, then…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… government's inability of putting effective measures in place. He ran short of accusing the government of fuelling … thwarting any effort of having a…
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… is another Town called Mogwasi that does lie close to Sun City. Mogwase was established, after redemarcation of … Indian, Coloured and White groups, mostly…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… springing from emotion, knocking deliberation aside. The city is Johannesburg, the country South Africa, and the time … only as an appendage of the social…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… - are inappropriate for a person of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being, education, physical or … schoolchildren from abuse. Such…
PlaceJohannesburg Civic Theatre
… Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre was built by the then city council in 1962, creating a high-profile landmark on the … to be both creatively and financially…