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… residents were moved to Mamelodi. He was the headmaster of Mamelodi High School and chairman of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU).  On … 24 November 1995, Ramokhoase became the first black mayor of Pretoria. He was instrumental in integrating the old city …

… To celebrate the International Day of the Older People on October 01st, Constitution Hill is offering complimentary tours of the site during the Month of October and November. This is to commemorate all those who …

… around the world every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, who is considered the founder of modern nursing. She made many improvements in nursing and played an important role of reducing the death rate of soldiers during the Crimean War …

… was to function on a federal basis, separate branches of the party were founded in the other three provinces of the Union of South Africa shortly afterwards. The party was founded in … Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. …

… This forms part of a collection of articles which formed part of a series in The Educational Journal. The series of …

… in Natal. He assumed the full-time secretary position of the Transvaal branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) when it … from Cape Town to Johannesburg. During the term of office of J.T. Gumede, Champion became an executive member … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography , v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. …

… A2 red and black on white, litho; maps of SA with bars; text: Whose reality Mr Botha? thousands of innocent people detained; hundreds of innocent people killed; SAP and SADF polluting the …

… Ermelo, the educational, industrial and commercial centre of a 7,750m² district in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the Reverend Frans Lion Cachet of the Dutch Reformed Church, who was converted to …

… accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has … about the complainant's personal history. About 200 of Mr Zuma's supporters have gathered outside the court tearing up and burning pictures of the woman. This follows Monday's graphic account of …

… art.  The original location was next to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the Rand Centre in the … In May 1964 the gallery curated a show Mozambique: Some of its artistic aspects, which included ten artists from … the exhibition roster to include artists from the rest of the continent. After certain differences in policy of …

… Africa did not lose a single series until 1956. The game of ruby developed along with the political ideology of apartheid, and soon became representative of the exclusion that the Black majority faced from South …

… Nana Sita G.H.I. Pahad J. Nanabhai R. Stuttaford (Minister of Interior) V.S.C. Pather Manilal Gandhi Dayabhai Govindji …

… known as the Johannesburg Art Foundation. The core idea of a school was of a network of people, artists, writers and benefactors coming together …

… The Aliwal Shoal is a rocky Reef which is the remains of an ancient sand dune, approximately 5 kilometres off the Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Reef is inhabited by many kinds of hard and soft corals and a variety of tropical and … New Dictionary of South African Names by Peter E Raper …

… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence for Namibia. These negotiations heralded the end of foreign intervention in the war in Angola and the ultimate …

… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in … to Tanzania. He returned with the Tanzanian-aided invasion of 1979 and was re-elected in 1980 amid accusations of fraud. …

… Reactor Installation-1) at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the production of nuclear energy on a commercial scale, but was employed for research and the production of isotopes, useful in several fields. Nuclear power would be …

… Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in … D.Phil. from a South African University. Dube, who is of royal descent, was also founder and first president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), later …

… exhibition reflects three years in the life and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, … to community living against the rapid gentrification of the inner city. Mrs Barrett recently made headlines by … house, which now stands in ruins. The exhibition consists of 30 photographs - still lives, portraits and intimate …

… man arrived in South Africa from Hong Kong with no signs of being ill but after seven days he started to show flu-like … results came back negative, although he had all the signs of SARS. Media organisations reported that health officials … looking into whether the SARS was actually a combination of viruses. If this case was confirmed, it would have been …

… used as a cover up for a political meeting at the house of Lillian Ngoyi.  They were charged with contravening section 9(1) of Act 44 of 1950. The case was later withdrawn because there was no …

… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. The Ochre People is one of her two autobiographical works; the other is Drawn in …

… as Princess Diana was born in 1961. She married the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England, Charles, and became the royal Princess of Wales. Their tumultuous marriage ended in 1996. At the … [Accessed on 20 August 2012] | Biography online Biography of Diana, Princess of Wales [online] Available at: …

… time, the inquest revealed full and horryfying details of how political detainees are treated. What exactly happened … known only to his interrogators. But from a close reading of the inquest proceedings, given in this book, it is … once again the inherently ruthless and oppressive nature of apartheid state. Content I - Introduction II - The Life of …

… Nine months after the Lari Massacre of 26 March 1953, twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen were sentenced … event happened 10 years before the independence of the country from Britain in 1963 and aggravated an already … political situation. The massacre followed the eruption of violence on 20 October 1952, as the Mau Mau protested the …

… 0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when … from two countries were assassinated. Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and his Burundian counterpart Cyprian Ntayamira … Habyarimana and Ntayamira were returning from a meeting of east and central African leaders in Dar-es-Salaam, …

… On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van … the city by Cecil John Rhodes, a politician and financier of the late 19th century. Near this statue, at the bottom end of Adderley Street, are statues of Bartholomew Dias, a …

… The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It was realised … did not have crude oil reserves, the country's balance of payments had to be protected against increasing crude oil …

… failure which today (27 July 2009) plunged most floors of Chief Albert Luthuli House - African National Congress headquarters – into darkness, and a threat of Johannesburg being brought to a standstill by striking municipal workers, the work of the ANC has not come to a stop. Today the ANC immediately …

… In 1950, the two major pieces of legislation designed to create the new 'apartheid (apart) … Act . The first provided for the compulsory classification of the population into racially defined groups and the second … was enacted to effect the total urban spatial segregation of the various population groups, as defined by the …