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BiographyKobera Manual
… to move from the home she was born in. Ironically, years before this came into effect, she wrote a moving letter to …
BiographyGideon Mendel
… Christian Aid Poster Campaign, We Believe in Life Before Death Reportage Magazine, De Aar …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… government to seek a 2/3 approval of the electorate before carrying out a constitutional change, but this rule …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… four sons initially resided in the old Governor’s house before relocating to their private quarters at the Castle in …
BiographyNongqawuse
… through her. In conclusion, Nongqawuse’s true identity before she saw the two strangers by the Gxarha River remains …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… J.C. Smuts , Gandhi secures Valliamma Mudaliar's release, before the expiry of her jail term. But even by then her life … sit on the council. She serves on…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the regime that unless all the obstacles are removed on or before 30 April 1991, the ANC shall consider the suspension … Nelson Mandela.She challenged her…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… Broederbond . He resigned due to ill health at the end of 1940. Throughout the war support for the HNP increased and …
PlaceCiskei
… or the traditional inkundla (local assemblies) system. Before colonial rule these were autonomous and their … , local assembly authority was subject to the…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… way many early Johannesburgers built their houses. Those before them, the Voortrekkers, had built their houses using … wooden slates below the roof. There…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… these Premises were provisional, it took another 20 years before the Government was able to build its own Building, … Chamber and its suite of rooms were…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… to compile the Revised English Version only began in the 1940’s. A team of experts was organized and the process of …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… disease at Herschel, near Aliwal North in Transkei. Even before the plague struck, Dr Soga was the first amongst his …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… times, he would be allowed to rehearse his play but just before opening night, the government would issue him with a …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid discoveries in South Africa and … the point of view of the writer or…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… days of giving evidence to cover all that we wanted to put before the court and it seemed that their lordships became mighty tired … could challenge it. It…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… Isaka Seme from 1930-1936, ZR Mahabane`s second from 1937-1940, AB Xuma from 1940-1949, James Moroka from 1949-1952, Albert Luthuli from …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah…
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
Robert Resha was an activist, journalist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist, he strived for a non-racial, non-sexist, just and…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… democratic elections, George Hallett’s work began long before his involvement with the African National Congress … his work in District Six , where he…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… in Magistrates and the police. We may well hope to see before long African Magistrates and Commissioners in the … needed education in the use of the land he…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… that it was already seen as of historic importance before either the COP took place or the Freedom Charter was … he had been mulling over the idea for a few…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… could be up for grabs soon after the Johannesburg High Court ordered the sheriff to auction the building. The order … in to help with the 2014 provincial…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… The Con, publishes an edited excerpt from Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron’s autobiography, Justice: A … received. I needed it. By now I was a judge…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… judicial system including a powerful Constitutional Court. An entire chapter is devoted to the establishment of … parties that were at war with each other…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… November 1962. "I do not believe, Your Worship, that this court, in inflicting penalties on me for the crimes for which … deter my people or the colleagues…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 1903 Moving pictures had been showing for several years before the production of dramatic films were undertaken. By … Amateur Rolprent Organisasie, was…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Vlakte is shown in the building. Other iniquities occurred before the institution of Apartheid – on 27 June 1940 students from Dagbreek Men’s Residence …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… the SA Railway and Harbour Workers Union in the 1930s. In 1940 the Co-ordinating Committee of African Trade Unions was … Moses Mayekiso , who would complete…