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EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… his fleeing horse tripped and fell and was speared to death. A memorial, now a historical monument, was erected to …
EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… and convicted, and later granted both a reprieve from death row, and amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation …
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… estate Constantia and continued to develop it up to his death in 1712. Adriaan, like his father, believed in the wine …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… bombings. If convicted Mohamed could be handed down a death penalty or life imprisonment sentence without …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… her astonishing career was cut short due to her untimely death in 1977. …
EventIdi Amin Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda
… grabbed and taken out into the countryside and shot to death, their car pushed off the side of the …
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… to have fathered about 30 children by the time of his death. …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe refuses to end the Katanga secession
… Tshombe was taken to Algeria where he remained until his death on 29 June 1969. …
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie
… SADTU - AZAPO by Funani ka Ntontela Roy Padayachie's death a huge loss - Jacob Zuma Roy Padayachie - SA Minister …
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… less successful in this regard. The cause of Tutankhamun's death at the age of 19, is still unknown and there has been … no evidence has been found that…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… education and the notion that universities are neutral bodies in the process of acquiring knowledge. SASO saw its …
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… Dirk Coetzee dies South Africa March 6 2013 Dirk Coetzee Bodies linked to Winnie exhumed South Africa March 12 2013 …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… trade unions, student organizations, and sports bodies' to fight oppression. A committee was formed to look …
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… job during this time in prison was the protection of their bodies, gender, and sexuality. But most women found this …
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… and led to the formation and growth of new political bodies. British segregationist legislation included the …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… the North-West province, representatives of Chapter Nine bodies, prominent civil society leaders and cultural workers. …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… was only the coming to power of the Nationalist Party in 1948 which temporarily stilled the voices of legitimate Black … and to establish permanent homes in…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… the attitude eventually adopted by the various persons and bodies concerned in the National Liberation Movement. When I … Zvai Leumi, which operated in…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At the time of his death, Sibeko was based New York. The death of Sibeko came as result of increasing hostility …
PlaceGoedverwact
… to six of his freed slaves by H. S. Burger. On the death of the last of the heirs in Dec. 1888 the Moravians …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had been orchestrated by Belgian and US forces who …
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… Indian community. She continued her medical work until her death in 1979. …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… Belgium in June 1960, a series of events that led to his death unfolded. In October 1960 Lumumba was placed under …
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… Russia. The first prizes were awarded five years after his death in five categories, namely chemistry, physics, …
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… only in the newspaper Isigidimi samaXhosa; after his death, W.B. Rubusana included nine pieces in his anthology …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… after she exposed the real circumstances behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In …
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was stoned and stabbed to death after disclosing on a local radio show that she had …
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… Africa to escape Nazi persecution. After his father’s death, Levinsky , his siblings and mother, emigrated to …
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… in 1929, only five years after their marriage. After his death, she taught art in schools throughout Cape Town. She …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… in him. Kabila became President of Zaire after the death of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997. He wasted no time in …