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… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays … acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what …

… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the … 1977. The Somali Army crossed the international border of Ethiopia into Ogaden Province without any resistance. The …

… Pope John Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso … visit he again established himself as a strong defender of human rights, workers rights and religious freedom. He …

… Barber was a remarkable woman with an extensive knowledge of natural history, especially botany and entomology and … with valuable information for his work On the Origin of Species (1859). She was elected to the Hungarian ornithological society and several of her papers were translated into Hungarian. As a natural …

… Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg during the Rand Revolt. Long was arrested for the murder of Alwyn Petrus Marais, a Fordsburg shopkeeper, and later …

… Fietas (as the place was popularly known) is one of the oldest communities in the Western suburbs of Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' (multi-racial areas) established …

… Thesis has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, …

… Notice of a Congress meeting concerning the merging of Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Paper Printing Wood … and Allied Workers Union, at Randburg Towers Hotel. List of speakers. Logos of the two unions. Grey and white …

… SOYA condemns the idea of the governments intention to transfer administrative control of the Medical School, Durban from the University of Natal to the Univdersity of South Africa, and further …

… Series of two page pamphlets on various aspects of the ANC struggle and fight against apartheid: call for … South Africa, the National Anthem, sanctions, the children of resistance, the facts of apartheid, how the people of …

… Hidden from the visibility of the Coastal Road and vicinity of the wind, Clifton is a secluded collection of four Beaches naturally divided by Boulders and Rocks. …

… their lineages through manumission records, the wills of slave owners, and censuses. Nancy Daniels, for example, is … the Burleys, in a record that documented the manumission of Thomas Burley’s family from one Brice J. Worthington in … the Worthington family owned Belvoir during the first half of the nineteenth century. The discovery of the slave …

… on all South Africans to unite behind that great symbol of our nation, the National Flag, to a “People’s Assembly … groups are planning night vigils on the evening of November 1. “We have been approached by a number of interested parties, including civil society organisations, …

… task, but it has been an invaluable experience for both of us. And we have been assisted by and shared fellowship with many people along the way. A number of people who knew Lembede have talked to us about their … and shared transcripts from her own extensive collection of interviews. We have also benefitted from comments received …

… Green, yellow, black and white poster. History of Zimbabwe. Artwork of an African man and child with a book. Photographs of scenes from Zimbabwe. Green map of Africa with Zimbabwe in …

… Multicoloured poster. Oval of rainbow colours, containing artwork of two people, one white, one black, with a red heart in the centre, holding a globe of the earth and standing on a black and white checked globe …

… Notice of rally at Dube "Y" on 29th September 1984. Speaker Rev F … White poster with black lettering. Black and white image of man holding cross in one hand and broken handcuff chains in other. Words 'the challenge of the cross' on image of map of South Africa. Initials FECA …

… Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River … formations and waterfalls, God's Window is truly an area of breathtaking scenic splendour. It is no wonder that … Country.  Gods Window is so called for the panoramic view of the Lowveld more than 900 m down into lush indigenous …

… describes the hazy, lazy days during summers, typical of the African Bushveld whilst on Safari. Hazyview is central to the Kruger Lowveld Region of Mpumalanga and very near to several Gates to the Kruger … and macadamia nut industries, contributing about 20% of South Africa's bananas and 30% of macadamia …

… hit squad, with 16 police officers. The existence of the unit was first revealed publicly in 1988 on the eve of the execution of Almond Nofomela. Before his execution, Nofomela confessed …

… The road to Napier takes you through never ending fields of wheat and barley, where the endangered Blue Crane can … wheat and barley fields, at the Southern-most region of Africa. Napier is known as a village with the old world … Voltelyn van der Byl, could not agree where the Church of the community should be! Resulting in two separate …

… school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Working alone at first but later joined by … the first state funeral accorded to a private citizen of India since the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948. The …

… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this … without trial, for 90 days. Further, on the expiration of such, the person could be re-arrested under the same law … both banned organisations. It also allows people convicted of political offences to be held in continuous detention …

… Later it was also used as a liner by the Ministry of War for transporting troops. Towards the end of October 1942 the SS Mendoza sailed without an armoured … service during the World War II that patrolled the waters of the Indian Ocean around the Cape and the South and South …

… amongst the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. Sekoto was schooled at …

… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the Ambleside, which took its name from the town of Ambleside. Which is, North of Lake Windemere in the South …

… Letter from Jack Simons of the Constitutional Committee and Zola Skweyiya of the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs to Oliver Tambo regarding …

… Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of politics including the elements of South African life. He tries to clarify the two points, …

… Sammy Marks was a diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and Senator in the Parliament of the Union of South Africa. He was also a friend of …