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Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… cost of living in Cape Town was the highest in the Empire. 12 Although the working classes in Cape Town were faced with … which covered South Africa,…
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
Please find below information on additional services for the late Adelaide Tambo. Please note that the venue for the funeral on Saturday has been changed to…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… On 12 June 1917, Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor, …
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… The constitution, which was promulgated on December 12, 1975, effectively vested absolute power in the President …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… solitary confinement for 88 days. Following the verdict on 12 June 1964, Sisulu and other treason trialists were taken …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 October 1980. The Grand Old Lady of the city, the …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… On 17 November 1558 the British Queen, Queen Elizabeth I …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… basis of his ethnicity, Outarra resigned from his post. On 17 December 1993, Daniel Kaplan Duncan became the prime …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
The Afrikaans language has its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and has many…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… is situated in Cape Town in the Wynberg district, some 12 km east of Athlone in the Western Cape Province. … They left 60,000 people homeless between the 25…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… Round Table on Democratic Constitutional Development, 17 July 1995. The stated sentiments of key role-players and … programmes was launched on 18 February…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… of 1988. In early 1988 the apartheid government banned ‘ 17 black anti-apartheid groups and the country's largest … union federation from any political…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
The Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney Hebrew Congregation, the oldest Jewish…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… the Congress and make it a strong and independent body." [17] Through the 1950s, CP leaders and members had an singly … South African Revolutionary , London,…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… when they won a “Double Treble” in both 2010\11 and 2011\12, taking with them two MTN8 titles, two Absa Premiership …
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… Literature Museum. *Note: Some sources say he died on 12 January 1952 …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… in resource poor countries. They also released a list of 12 essential AIDS drugs. These two moves were seen as "vital … traditional leaders and other sectors…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Jack and the raising of the Kenyan flag at a ceremony on 12 December 1963, attended by thousands of celebrating … 1989 Political prisoners are freed…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… in Europe so they would be effective in garnering support. 12 If the missionary's camera partially robbed native South … physical superiority in a human…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… The YSS became a major player in the anti-war marches. On 17 March 1968, Mbeki, took part in a massive anti-Vietnam …
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… debt-servicing costs seen at the R144-billion in the 2016/17 fiscal year. [4] The grounds on which the president made …
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
Prehistory of Southern Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and…
ArticleKora
The Korana or Kora were a nomadic Khoikhoi group that probably derived their name from a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… are defined as children from birth up to the age of 17 whose mothers have died, UNAIDS estimates that there were …
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… means that she grew up with two cultures. When she was 17 years old she met an imbongi, or traditional African poet …
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… R1.1-billion for imported PPE as of 15 May. This included 12-million N95 masks and 38.2-million medical masks (as well … gouging since the beginning of the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… in three provinces: Limpopo (14.43%, 7 seats); Mpumalanga (12.79%, 4 seats) and North West (18.64%, 6 seats). B4. The … also saw a decline of its very small…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… as a medium of instruction every year, when only around 17% of students use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. … (zero percent) on any outstanding fees…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… employing 269 male and 207 female teachers and there were 17, 5 17 pupils. Should we boycott them, they in turn might … carried. The amendment of Mr. Kies…
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National …