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EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers was …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… career and was the highest scorer in South African rugby history with a record of 312 points, until his record was …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… often run together. In 1984,at the age of 17, Budd made history when she twice broke the world 5000m record However, …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… (Accessed: 03 May 2012) South African History Online, ‘Rivonia trial sentence is delivered’, …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo made history when she became the first Black woman to receive an …
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
9. In search of better employment
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… and their future. We must therefore view today`s event as history in the making, as the opening of the doors for future … us proud to be associated with the…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand the … Union, a communist totalitarian…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… contact In the beginning of the 15th century, a period in history began that had great consequences not only for … the route to India. This led to another…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
… thousand volunteers, Mr. Lutuli concludes: "Throughout history no freedom has come to any people without blood and … movement has ever failed. Shall yours be…
PlaceMadagascar
… Tananarive). To learn more about Malagasy culture and history, you can visit the royal palaces or historical sites … to quickly learn more about Malagasy…
PlaceMauritius
… of economy for Mauritius, and is central to the island’s history. Sugarcane fields can still be seen all over the … roads to more secluded areas. To really…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… has shown a remarkable determination to leave behind its history of division and conflict. It has displayed resolution … partnership - a partnership forged…
Document 15 - “Ruth First , “Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle”, The Guardian , 23 December 1948
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 15 … all of us to come together”, said Dr…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… its impact on the people, marking a turning-point in the history of the struggle by setting it on an independent road. … rights, they came together for the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide when they occur, to a large … on the basis of where we are in the present…
PlaceZoar, Western Cape
… and dependent on Tourism, for their survival. Their History goes something like this: Zoar was the first of the … funding from a Baroness Amalie von Stein…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… apartheid past, its attempt to shed itself of its heinous history. It gives me immense pride to have to say that I was there with you in the trenches of…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… guests; Friends; comrades and fellow South Africans. In history, men and women of rare qualities make a mark that the … beings to come out and to flourish…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
… you all. Today is a significant day in our post-apartheid history, as we have finally been able to visit this former … (MK) campsite. We are reconnecting…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 41 … will you give us in brief outline…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… elections of 1994. South Africa's mining industry's history and the development of strong Trade Unions and … ideologies has largely determined the country's…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… elections in 1994. South Africa's mining industry's history, and the development of strong Trade Unions and … ideologies, has largely determined the country…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… and settler-communities on the other. Generations of history-writers and -teachers have with only a few exceptions … to be made to revisit and probably…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… that I was not welcome in South Africa because of my "history", and added somewhat apologetically that she was … documented. I had never expected this…
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… has incorporated refuse in his sculptural work to mine the history of colonialism by connecting consumption, waste and …
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… and repercussions, will have few parallels in modern history. I believe that the force of this explosion will have …
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… fully dedicated. This will go down in the annals of our history... 1 M.P. Naicker, a trade union leader and …
PlaceAnnisfontein, a Spring and Outspan in Richtersveld- Northern Cape
… A Spring and Outspan in the Richtersveld with Geographical History dating back Millions of Years! A Spring may be the …