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…  The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the City Hall in Cape Town, the place where Nelson Mandela … danced while some waved the South African flag in honour of the former president.  Flowers and Nelson Mandela quotes were placed in front of the City Hall to honour the memory   of the South African …

… Vorster to Malawi in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi became the first head of an independent Black African state to visit South Africa … to visit Malawi. On his return, he declared that 99% of the Africans whom he met supported his policy of contact …

… The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886 was a turning point in … "...In chemistry the diamond, being pure carbon, is one of the most commone elements. Yet it fashioned by nature into a magnificent crystal with the most dramatic history of all gems..." C.W. de Kiewiet . What is Industrialisation? …

… General announced that  Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three … would face terrorism charges. They have been accused of attempting or planning to overthrow the South African … violent means. These charges emanated from the uncovering of illegal arms caches in different parts of the country, …

… without them. Doe, amidst ethnic warfare which killed tens of thousands of Liberians and caused over 700,000 more to flee the … and killed by the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL) led by Prince Yormie Johnson on 9 …

… process in the party that culminates in the appointment of F. W. de Klerk . P.W. Botha presided over South Africa when violence and state suppression of resistance movements was at its height. Leading scholars in the field of civil-military relations came to call South Africa a …

… Johannesburg. The limpet mines were seen by a member of the SADF, who carried them down the staircase and put them … consideration to all the operations, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission stated that they were of the opinion that none of the attacks were disproportionate …

… Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, Mozambique, and was buried there … on 2 December 2006 was marked by controversy as a section of the mourners disrupted the speech of State President Thabo …

… Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town, leading a delegation of government officials and business people on a two day official visit. This was the first ever visit of a Russian head of state to SA. He was welcomed by President Thabo Mbeki in a … International relations & cooperation," Media Programme for State Visit to South Africa by Russian …

… Former Minister of Minerals and Energy, Phumizile Mlambo - Ngcuka was … testimony had implicated Zuma. Mlambo-Ngcuka is the wife of the former controversial head of the National Director of Public Prosecution. Her …

… live on television in Cairo. After forty-five minutes of medical attention, Mubarak returned to parliament. … him as he continued with his speech. He told the members of parliament that he has not fully recovered from flu. … Mubarak was observing Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting. The opening of parliament was reschedule due to …

… by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of having a child out of wedlock and subsequently found guilty by the Sharia … Fully,(2003), 'Nigerian Islamic Court Clears Amina Lawal of Adultery in Stoning Case' , September 25,from Mind …

… J.G. Zuma in Langa, Cape Town. The forum was born of a cabinet decision following the National Anti-Corruption … was consistent with the global call to address the problem of corruption from various angles whilst carefully … historical, social political and economic conditions of the society within which corruption occurs. In his …

… Park. The conference focused primarily on the drafting of a Women's Charter and the future of the Women's National Coalition. The Women's Charter was adopted on the last day of the conference. The final Charter was prefaced with an …

… on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The visit, from 11 to 13 August, … National Congress and the PLO. SA recognised the State of Palestine on 15 February 1995. Arafat's visit raised … Jewish community. Mandela awarded him South Africa's Order of Merit, Excellence Class, for foreign citizens. In …

… Mrs Elize Botha, first wife of former State President P.W. Botha, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western Cape. About three hundred …

… Speculation around Ramaphosa's resignation was because of a belief that he has been overlooked by Nelson Mandela in … him the second most powerful person in the country instead of Thabo Mbeki. Ramaphosa was widely tipped both within the corridors of the African National Congress, and by the business sector, …

… At the conclusion of the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the … Raymond Mhlaba . Mandela argued that he was driven to acts of sabotage because all legitimate means of protest were … Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, …

… France confirmed the sale of two new combat submarines to South Africa  to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean.  At … Gorbachev also reiterated Soviet support for the overthrow of the apartheid government of South Africa. He pledged to …

… which in turn determined the implementation of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which determined where people of different racial groups could live. The Group Areas Act … O’Malley, P. ‘1981’ , from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog , [online], available at …

… Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his second wife Ruth … ten years' imprisonment respectively, being found guilty of high treason on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. On 26 January, 1983, the …

… named Bernert Willemsz Wijlant and he would be the first of many European babies to be born in the Cape. Baby Wijlant … scriptures and help them draw up wills. The birth of baby Wijlant signaled the beginning of a second generation of settlers in the Cape. …

… Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, announced in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose an embargo on the export of arms to South Africa. Outstanding commitments by the Ministry of Defence will be fulfilled, but no new contracts will be …

… Robert Resha was an activist, journalist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist, he … for participating in the Defiance Campaign as a member of the ANC Youth League. Resha was one of the Treason trialists, but was acquitted in 1961, after …

… National Lotteries Board The National Arts Council of South Africa The National Heritage Council Bateman BV Department of Basic Education De Beers The Carnegie Corporation of New York The British Council Ireland Aid The Department of …

… Founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party (NCPC) and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National Union (KANU), Thomas Joseph … After Kenya‘s independence in 1963, Mboya became Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and later Minister of …

… in Deelfontein, near De Aar. The Blue Train was ahead of schedule and whiling time when the Karoo Train was … were injured in the collision. The Chief Executive Officer of Spoornet stated that the cause of the accident was a failure in the signaling system and the …

… the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black citizens; this was carried out in terms of the Bantustan policy. The policy assigned every Black … to their ethnic identity. KaNgwane was the homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated …

… Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah … Gaitskell Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink Gender and deviance in …

… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the … which was in reference to the sandstone that makes up most of the homeland’s rocky Drakensberg mountain. From 1974, the … became a self-governing state under the leadership of Kenneth Mopeli until 1994 when South Africa became a …