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EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… and placed under house arrest until 1980. Bella died on 11 April 2012. …
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… The date is given as 14 March in another source, but 11 March is mentioned in the official declaration by the …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P. Campbell formed a …
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 473. …
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… in South Africa. The conference will be held from 08-11 October 2013 in the Kimberley, Northern Cape, under the …
EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… Cape. Today, the town has a population of just over 11 000. It is a thriving small town with a booming sheep …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… also took his steps to freedom through these gates in 1990. The prison has a huge bronze statue of Mandela with his …
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… in 1999. Mandela, who was released from prison in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria, took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… Dr. A.H. Zulu and Dr. Frank .T. Mdlalose. On 14 July 1990, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came into being at a …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… South Africa on the road to full democracy. In February,1990, he freed Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the adoption of an Interim Constitution during and after 1990, as then DP leader Zach de Beer was elected the first …
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… , addressed the memorial service References: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events, Longman: London, p. …
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… The number of South African world champions peaked in the 1990's. The country had six world champions in 1995, five the …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon director of three … IOL News [online] Available at: www…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… suppression of political and cultural renewal. Early in 1990, a group of ex-uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) cadres mysteriously … B., Maxongo, A., Tshona, Z., Massango,…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… report in The International, January 14, 1916. Document 11: '170 Million Recruits', editorial in The International, … - Notes of the Conference',The…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… 11 th Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Popular Education: … its first tour of South Africa. The colloquium (9:00 – 11:30, UWC) is for invited popular…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Africa . Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991. (chapters 11-13) Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho. Native Life in South … in South Africa . Craighall, Ad Donker,…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… was further extended as follows: * Main jama 'at khana: 30,02 meters by 15,01 meters; 01,58 meters by 15,01 meters; * … Mosque Block BB Town Lands of Durban…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… 1860 -1911. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1990 Bhana, S-, Indentured Indian immigrants to Natal, 1860 - … and Outsiders. The Indian Working…
PlaceGriqualand West
… It was retained as the Magistrate’s Court until May 1990, when the staff moved into their new premises on Knight … itself, a National Monument (declared so…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 9, 10, 11 and 16 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… of the franchise leading to eventual African rule. On 11 November, the Smith government issued a unilateral …
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… On 27 October 2005 at about 11.30pm, the Trans Karoo Express collided with a stationary …
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… early 2011, leading to fears of a repeat of the disaster 11 years earlier. The floods, however, turned out to be less …
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… declaration of independence for Katanga province on 11 July. The intervention by UN troops followed Patrice …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… dead and scores injured. Following the proclamation, 11 727 people were detained. In April 1960, the government …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… past, UNESCO declared Timbuktu a World Heritage Site in 1990. Timbuktu was a thriving centre of scholarship …