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EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… she lived and worked as a lecturer and writer until her death in Serowe, Botswana. Throughout her life, Head was a … a collection of short stories. The…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… especially the mineworkers, who suffered dreadfully. The death-rate of Whites was also unusually high. Deaths were … cure. The epidemic peaked in October…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… British military court was competent to pass a sentence of death on a prisoner of war while the war was still raging. … ensure that his memory would endure,…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… Hennie van Zyl, died and in the shake-up that followed his death, Bantu Education Minister, the dour M C Botha, decided … and tear. Influenced by events…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… of selecting a successor to King Goodwill after his death in 2021 . The continuing complexities of Zulu ethnic … ANC stalwart, Zulu, Christian, family man…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… were correct when he said them? MORTALITY & CAUSES OF DEATH in SOUTH AFRICA The institution called Statistics … year it publishes a Report on Mortality and…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
… experience of his cavalry. [7] Consequently, by Babur’s death in 1530, the Mughal’s controlled most of Northern India. [8] After Babur’s death his son,…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… 1946/47 Strikes by African mineworkers were crushed. 1948 Afrikaner nationalists won the parliamentary elections. … to the cities was more systematically…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… was murdered. The issue that on the day of Dlamini's death residents were protesting against reputed corrupt … against the "Sharpeville Six" they were…
ArticleSouth African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
… Committees. Ordinary members forfeit their membership upon death or by giving written notice of resignation or by being …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… 's guardian, entrusted to him by Mandela's father on his death bed. 1894 Pondoland, the northern part of the Eastern …
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… 2015] The New York Times, (2013), ‘ Nelson Mandela Death: A Look at South Africa's First Black President ’, …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… was to hear whether or not I was going to be sentenced to death. Fortunately for myself and my colleagues we were not. …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… were questioned but none of them confirmed his cause of death. Two decades after his death 1997, five former officers confessed to killing Biko …
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… succeed and be safeguarded in a legitimate manner. 3. THE DEATH PENALTY The death penalty has been the subject of intensive discussion in … contained in…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… succeed and be safeguarded in a legitimate manner. 3 The death penalty The death penalty has been the subject of intensive discussion in … contained in…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… heard of this, an order was sent commanding that the bodies be disinterred and buried in separate black and white graves.(9) Thus, even in death, South…
Chapter 5
… organisations, trade unions and civic and church bodies, etc., all of which had one purpose, the fight for … He would get in touch with the leaders of the…
Post-Election Political Violence
… ever downwards. By way of comparison, the average monthly death tolls from political violence recorded by HRC in … periods are shown below Average monthly…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… itself. The nationalist regime that came into power in 1948 offered a hard solution to this crisis. Instead of …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… a leading advocate of the Africanist thinking in the ANC. 1948 August, Godfrey Pitje, a lecturer in the Department of …
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… on political matters is literally a matter of life and death which requires to be handled by the organisation itself … and that is to bring the country's two…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… of dangerous weapons in public, despite the alarming death toll. All these developments point to one reality: the … of its approach that the resolutions…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… result in a greater number of deaths or injuries. The death-count in political violence The deaths in politically … of 259 deaths each month or 8.5 deaths…
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie … for being a police informer, a charge that…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… Nieuwoudt was denied amnesty in 1999 for his role in the death of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). At the time of his death,…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… After the death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the … had been the main protagonist of the war and that his death meant a greater chance…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Thomas Benjamin Davie, who served the university from 1948 to 1955. Davie was a fearless defender of the principles …
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas7 to James Ramsay…
PlaceLake Kariba, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Construction on Lake Kariba began in the early 1950's out of the necessity to generate hydroelectric energy for Zambia and Zimbabwe. Kariba was designed and…