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EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd . On 28 June 1995 Verwoerdburg acquired a new name; Centurion. Centurion …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… 24 Aug 1894 Hammond, Margaret Maud Born: 23 Mar 1866 Died: 16 June 1896 Note: Margaret Maud Hammond. Native of Lochee; … Alfred Thomas Died: 29 Oct 1910…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… Cases of xenophobic attacks In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in the Alexandra Township outside of … violence in Durban, April 14, 2015…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… our submissions to the Constitutional Assembly on June 3 1995, and which we still believe can be taken on board. We … The Right to Picket should be…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… PLO. SA recognised the State of Palestine on 15 February 1995. Arafat's visit raised controversy among South Africa's …
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
… by President Nelson Mandela on the morning of 14 February 1995. The judges took oaths of office wearing their specially …
EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… 13 when she was discovered by her coach Martin Marx. From 1995 Cloete enjoyed success in athletics; taking gold year …
EventPaul Kibii Tergat Kenyan professional long distance runner is born
… IAAF World Cross Country Championships titles, from 1995 to 1999. He came second in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 …
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's. It had 12 partners representing 45 000 workers. The organisation …
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… articles for the university journal, the Campus Lantern. [12] By 2003, she had completed her master’s degree from Johns … of authority, and inheritors of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… and Walter Rubusana present). Mines and Works Act No 12: Permitted the granting of certificates of competency for … The first batch of Indian passive…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… literary work Sebatakgomo. References Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , …
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… on 9 June 1994. In its three consecutive congresses in 1995, 1999 and 2003 South Africa was elected on to the …
EventSA signs Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA
… implemented in November of the same year it was signed. In 1995 the IAEA announced that it was satisfied that all South … weapons ',[online],Available at www…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… SA Rugby Union was held in Zimbabwe. Seven years later, in 1995, South Africa hosted and won the Rugby World Cup. The … News24 , (16 October 2003). ‘Thursday…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… resignation took effect on April 4, the end of the 1995 - 1996 financial year. The non-aligned Liebenberg had …
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Olonga is a rugby player. Ologa made his Test debut in 1995, becoming the youngest person and first black person to …
EventWorld Book and Copyright Day is celebrated globally
… and Copyright Day is a UNESCO initiative first held in 1995.By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO … , [online], Available at www.timeanddate…
EventMusician, Gito Baloi of Tananas fame, is killed
… his lifetime he released four solo albums, namely Ekhaya (1995), Naku rhandza (1997), herbs and seeds (2001) and Beyond …
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… with cancer and died the following year on 23 April 1995. …
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… (2013), ‘ Nelson Mandela: A life in pictures ’, from BBC, 16 December, [online], Available at … February 2015] BBC, (2013), ‘ Nelson Mandela ’, from BBC, 16…
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… two gaps in the laager and in each, a canon was placed. 16 December 1838: The Battle At dusk on the 15th December the …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… European borders and it ‘is spoken primarily in Africa’. [12] [13] [14] Afrikaans is also defined as a (southern) … Afrikaans is popularly perceived as a …
The Battle of Square Hill
… after the required number of men had been enlisted on 12 December 1915. [vi] Only unmarried men between the ages of … which took place during the day and…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… Since 1995, Human Rights Day has been a public holiday celebrated …
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… was published in 1981, and comprised personal poems. In 1995 he received the second prize in a poetry competition …
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… African Native National Congress Source: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , …
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… Africa. According to the Human Rights Watch report of May 1995, the National Party was instrumental the destabilising … RWANDA/ZAIRE,(1995), Rearming with…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in 1995. Former President Nelson Mandela dismissed her … Events London: Longman, p. 42428.|The New York…