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EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… Click here to read more. Click here to read more about American troops pulling out of Somalia …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… workers in breaking the strike. Click here to read more about the South African labour history. Sources: Pretoria …
EventWinnie Mandela’s Soweto home reported burnt down
… club had allegedly attacked a Soweto schoolgirl. When told about the incident, Nelson Mandela did not make a statement …
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… Inkatha supporters. Between May 1987 and February 1988 about eight TGWU bus drivers of the Sizanani MaZulu Transport …
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… the impression that the Apartheid government was concerned about threats to media freedom. However, the sentence meted …
EventDesmond Tutu is elected Archbishop
… Related Links: http://www.tutu.org/ - Go to 'Menu: About Desmond Tutu' for information on his life, his …
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… of Khayelitsha. The musical, sung entirely in Xhosa, is about an HIV-positive rural woman and has already won two …
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… that his son had HIV/Aids. He stressed that being open about HIV/Aids was the only way to stop people "regarding it …
EventSix SA Tsunami survivors arrive at Lanseria
… west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They have left about 125 000 people dead along the shorelines of the Indian …
EventReport released on the Waratah steamship's disappearance
… A report was released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between Durban and …
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… rest beside her late husband in the Tamboville Cemetery at about 1pm. …
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… African educational and political systems. Students from about sixty Coloured high schools, teacher training …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The UN had been vocal about the apartheid policy since the early 1950s. On 1 April …
East Cape Update
… with high rates of unemployment, information about the suffering experienced at the hands of the state and …
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… Tryna du Toit. Throughout her writing career, she produced about 40 novels. One of her novels, Groen koring, was made …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… recently 'come down out of the trees'." Smith's allegory about the ruined state of Great Zimbabwe was important in … made by [Helen] Suzman and, elsewhere,…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… regardless of whether he was having a languid chat about cricket – which he loved – or discussing government's … theorist in Afrikaans". "He was thinking…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… Publicity Association brochure had the following to say about the local vibe: “In the Pacific the islanders have made … they had seen on Waikiki Beach. (LINK…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… what was going on in the country. He would tell my mother about it but she was just occupied with raising the children … father used to visit him a lot, and…
Testimony of the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress, Ermelo, before the Eastern Transvaal Land Committee,January 8, 1918
… magistrate and the Chairman had addressed the gathering [about 200 Africans] the following representative natives were … forward later and express their…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… percent of the world's population, has been accounting for about 50 percent of the annual use waste of resources. The average American consumes about much as…
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
… concern that if the negative things repeatedly said about him and the Governments he led are false, the failure … the approach I am trying to explain is my…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… were inherited by the owner's children. Little is known about the personal lives of slaves - who they were, how they had come to be in the Cape, their real…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… participation. To each party the negotiations were as much about constitutional change as pursuing the interests of its … issues, and it is consequently easy…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… ANCYL NEC member to speak to ANCYL president Julius Malema about a supposedly lavish three-day safari he took before the … repute of the organisation, by…
EventThe fall of the Berlin wall
… in former West Germany began questioning their parents about their role in the creation of Nazism. By 2019 East German youth are questioning their parents…
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
… of the UCT spokesperson Elijah Moholola’s sophistry about “creating an environment where a diversity of staff and … covering the artworks (or removing them)…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… the railings of Parliament. At the time little was known about the actual death nor of the circumstance which led up … is an account of what the Production…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… It is also a political agreement between mandated leaders about what the most basic law in the land should be. In a … South Africans tend to be suspicious of…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… with Germany and the Axis powers. Smuts immediately set about putting the Defence Force on a war footing. The … or damage to land and property. Link: To read…