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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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… towards the realization of communism. [15] However, the death of Lenin in 1924 brought the NEP to an end. At the … led the Soviet Government from 1917 to…
ArchiveWho was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
… of KwaZulu-Natal. A government inquest concluded his death was an accident - that he was hit by a train. His … of KwaZulu-Natal. A government inquest…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… body was never recovered. The events leading to Johnson's death are still a mystery. There is no doubt, however, of the …
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… out in Mozambique on 18 October 1978, resulting in the death of over 200 people. Soon after this event, however, a …
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… a farm at the foot of the Magaliesberg in 1841. After the death of his first wife and child, he married Gezina du …
Extraordinary Life: Zapiro
… Hindus, Muslims and Jews, and has received law suits and death threats. Columnist and author Helen Walne and Andy …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… it was their mission to bring us our freedom. And fear of death itself would not stop them. This movement took on …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… leaders, but still the mass action raged. By 9 April the death toll had risen to 83 non-White civilians and three …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
… when he was murdered. The escalating violence after the death of Jack developed a suspicion of police involvement and …
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… presented at a symposium on The Legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko, Harare, June17-22, 1990, unpublished. *Tambo, O.R., … Verso, 1983). Arnold, M. (Ed.), The…
List of Robben Island Political Prisoners
… Leepile Boitumelo Kondile Bolente Ngqengqeleka Bolisi Biko Bomwana Rala Bonakele Mpondo Bongani Mpondo Bongani …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… become state schools. A week later, on 12 September, Steve Biko was murdered. In October all Black Consciousness … Mzamane, M., Maaba, B and Biko, N., The…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… and played an influential role in Indian life until his death in January 1912.22 Abdul Karrim was president of the … was involved in numerous public…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… after security police effectively killed BC leader Steve Biko on 12 October, this sparked a wave of revulsion across … young people felt the need to express…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… aspect of the Islamic faith is the belief of life after death, and as a result Muslims strictly follow the rules and regulations surrounding death dictated…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… Martha's husband disappeared without a trace and as his death could not be confirmed, she and Swede could not marry, …
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… its first president. He governed CÁ´te d’Ivoire until his death in 1993. Newly independent states such as CÁ´te …
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… of 500 wealthiest families worldwide. At the time of his death his assets were estimated at $1.7 billion. After …
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… ANC members. Woods, Smith and Conjwayo were sentenced to death and their sentence was later commuted to life …
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… collect the poll tax and threatened white authorities with death if they attempted to do so in his district. Attempts to …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… tending cattle in his father's kraal. After his father's death in 1955, his mother moved to the Anglican mission …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
… - heaved and trembled as they received his message: Death to Fascism! Down with Fascism! Freedom for my People! … carries for so long. He will be there,…
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… - heaved and trembled as they received his message: Death to Fascism! Down with Fascism! Freedom for my People! … for so long. He will be there,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… During the course of that long history, which included the death of many Khoi and San, death also visited their languages, their cultures and … strength of…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… ran away. Ari was caught the next day. If he escaped the death sentence, often executed with the most refined … He was sentenced to be half strangled, and…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1652 - 1699 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Christians and heathens. Offenders to be punished with death, but should there be amongst them those who had been … Cape Colony, probably never passed out of…