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EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a …
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… paintings are visible in different styles, dating from 12,000 BCE to 100 CE. Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela (Amhara …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… black people. After all these things happen out of sight. [12] By moving the horrors of apartheid within view, … your documentation, the record...the…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… – 2001. Chairman of World Solar Commission, South Africa 1995 – 2005. Deputy Chair of the African Union 2014 – 2015. …
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… the Language Plan Task Group (LANGTAG) was established in 1995 with the purpose of advising the new Minister of Arts, … . Braamfontein: Skotaville…
References and links: Local History
… Journey through Pretoria’s Main Attractions” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], Available at … [Accessed: 12 January 2015]. ShowMe, (2008/8), “The 1956…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… 24 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, PRETORIA Telephone: +27 (0)12 - 323 5300 Fax: +27 (0)12 - 323 5287 Website: http://www.national.archives.gov.za … Church…
Rafique Mayet
… done an essay on Working Women for the Worker's College in 1995, which is still being used at union meetings and …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students … 2. John Ganya 11 years 48 years Soweto 3. Marks Shinners 12 years…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… in 1921. In recent years the race had been held on June 16, but after complaints had been received that the race …
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… known South African artist, was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering … Mthethwa a murderer, court rules’, Daily Maverick…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry). 1976 June 16 The Student Uprisings erupt as a result of the enforcement … suffered severe head and brain…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… and jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry). 1976 16 June, The Student Uprisings erupt as a result of the … had already suffered severe head and brain…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… in the June 1976 uprising . The significance of the June 16 Uprising is that it led to the most sustained period of … controversy: since SASM was the body…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… and SACP called for a national day of action on June 26th.12 May, The Immorality Amendment Act No 21 of 1950 is passed, … (Eastern Cape) left eleven dead,…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Communist Party member Moses Kotane is arrested. June 12, Professor Z. K. Matthews leaves South Africa to spend … the Defiance Campaign will commence on…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… and paupers in the colony to Robben Island. A group of 16 lepers and 13 destitute persons from Port Elizabeth are … and forward them to the government in…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… given access to water, through their own leading sluice. [12] To instil self-discipline the settlers had to maintain … wagons for 418 km’s to the end of the…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was … the next 5 Years. This will increase Exports output from 12,500 to 25,000…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… struggle for freedom. Her child was Hector Pieterson. As a 12-year-old victim of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Hector …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… substantial tolls and taxes, further enriching the state. 12 Mansa Musa (r. 1312-1337) Of all the rulers of Mali, none … of the medieval period in real-terms…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Bibliography
… and Jan Vansina. African History . New York, Longman, 1995. Etherington, Norman. Old Wine in New Bottles: The … History . Johannesburg, Witwatersrand…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… to different centres in the UK. Frankfurt, Germany (16 June - August). The editor, Omar Badsha , is refused a … Waiting: South Africa’s first…
A growing urban African population
… (later Western Coloured Township). In 1928 there were 12 000 people living in the three townships. By 1931, the … taking in tenants intensified. It was not…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… editorial in The International, March 23, 1971. Document 12: Editorial 'The Great Events in Russia', published in The International, November 16, 1917…
Indian South Africans timeline 2000s
… Indian South Africans Timeline: 2000 2008 16 November, Billy Nair is given a given a state funeral in … to the esteem he was held in as a fighter for…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… included building bridges, schools and roads. [12] To some extent, the Great Deal built a platform for … War stimulated more economic growth than the New…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… in 1951, eventually resulting in Nkrumah’s release on 12 February that year. As Nkrumah stepped into institutional … YEARS IN AMERICA” The Black Scholar, vol…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… an important one. Sekhukhune versus the British On April 12, 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone annexed the Transvaal on …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts, USA 2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Children in Conflict, Wolverhampton Art …