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Article50 Facts on Africa
… producing both fiction, political essays, and journalism. 10 Great African Inventions The CAT Scan (South Africa) The … areas who lack access to…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… History Centre, where the collections of some of Iziko’s 11 museums have been brought together under one roof. The … ceramic collection including KhoiSan…
National Orders Recipients
… was the unveiling of a new Coat of Arms on 27 April 2000 that embraced the collective historical essence of the …
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… against poverty and underdevelopment. By December 2000, the cumulative total for houses completed or under … to 1999, total employment increased from 9.3…
The War
… SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain … British army sent for reinforcements…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… African Studies, Vol. 40 Issue 2 (2014): 419-424, doi: 10.1080/03057070.2014.901642. ↵ [vii] Barry Gilder, Peter … Looking In,” South Africa History Online,…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Chapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment Chapter 11 The escape Chapter 12 Hangings Chapter 13 A negotiated …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… the occupants to their deaths. References: Thursday 11 May 1995, McCook Daily Gazette, As many as 100 feared in …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… organised a 'Defend Free Speech Convention', attracting 10 000 people to Market Square. The meeting proposed a … 1937 dies in Johannesburg. His funeral is…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Council to work with the department. Held in Laudium on 10 December 1963, the conference resulted in the council’s … with embargoes against their businesses…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… and goodwill’. The NIA convened a mass meeting on 11 February 1940 to confirm the terms of the assurance. A … and goodwill’. The NIA convened a mass meeting…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… permission had been granted. It was repealed by section 11 of the Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, Act No 95 of … Act of 1952 This Act effected…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… receives its independence from Portugal after a protracted 10-year battle by Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) … Portuguese authorities, in which MK…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… Chapter 9 "To build solidarity - that was my task" Chapter 10 East - West Relations Chapter 11 Thank you for the Friendship - a Letter Chapter 12 for …
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… to 53-year-old Louis Washkansky, and her right kidney to 10-year-old Jonathan van Wyk. 4. Landmark housing activist: … distinguished herself as a housing…
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… Probably his two best series came against the MCC in 1909-10 and in Australia in 1910-11. In the five-Test series against the visiting MCC he …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… authority and approval. On Freedom Day, the 27th of April 2000, South Africa got a new coat of arms. It replaced the …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… A reappraisal’ in The Journal of African History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1969) ↵ [ii] Bulpin, T.V. Natal and the Zulu … 11 …
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… amongst black Africans was tuberculosis responsible for 10,7% of deaths in the black African population group, … diseases were the leading cause of death…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… of time and weather." Asmara (Eritrea) Located at over 2000 metres above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… least 25% of the total, and women have accounted for over 10%. In July-August of 1986, the detention cells were filled … months (August - September) of the…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… beginning of the century. Previous Corona-outbreaks since 2000 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): The first … was called “Severe Acute Respiratory…
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… that they were forced to sell Sibyl's wedding ring for £11. The Press’s daughter Estelle was born on the 14 of …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… made a short broadcast from a secret ANC radio station. On 11 July the police raided the farm and he was arrested with …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… a similar assurance to the Natal Municipal Association. 11 February, Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker makes his … 6 May, When the first meeting of the…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… three groups' application against the law failed on the 10 July 1998. The anti-abortion groups were responding to an act passed on 11 December 1996. The…
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… On 10 January 1908 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first … At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906, Gandhi adopted his…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… graduation ceremony, July 1947 (Lembede family, Umbumbulu) 10-11. Lembede's gravesite, Croesus cemetery, Johannesburg …
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… a big attraction at Newlands drawing an estimated crowd of 10,000 - easily a record at the time. England won at Newlands … a big attraction at Newlands…
PlacePageview
… were usually just two rooms with a kitchen, where up to 10 people lived. The outdoor bathrooms were shared by three … house. Asvat’s son, Farouk, remembers…