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EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… to their call for a workers' stay away to mourn the death of Mxenge. As result, 30 percent of the workforce in …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… 2. The chief returned to his people and ruled until his death in 1939. Source: Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… prior attempt to assassinate him, it is possible that his death was caused by a heart attack, rather than the poisoning …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… on 9 May 2004 after spending two weeks in a coma. Her death was reported to have been caused by a cocaine overdose. …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… in front of his 15-year-old daughter Nomakhwezi. The death of the leader of the armed wing of the ANC and popular …
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… later served as Vice President to Nasser. Following the death of Nasser in September 1970 Sadat took over the reins …
PlaceBarberspan Bird Sanctuary
The Barberspan Bird Sanctuary is a huge 2000 ha body of water located between Delareyville and Sannieshof. The Reserve is a pioneer in ornithological research…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre for…
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
Formerly called: 'Young Men's Christian Association'. This is a welfare movement with branches all over the World, that began in London in 1844. YMCA Cape Town…
EventArmistice day 11th Nov 1918
… The SA Military Command rejected this and had the bodies dug up and so the White and Black soldiers were …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… Marcus Motaung and Simon Mogoerane have been sentenced to death and their fate hangs on the weight of international … continues to enjoy membership of…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… driving thousands of the Herero tribe into the desert to death by thirst and starvation and almost exterminated the … step into the new era, we call upon all…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… Center for surrounding Farmers and smaller Towns. After 1948, and the beginning of the Apartheid era , the District …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… in January 1969 and Marks in July 1971, as well as the death of the latter in 1972, deprived the Party not only of … In fact, even though Marks was replaced…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into institutionalized racism unseen …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… when the Apartheid government that had come to power in 1948 began forcing women to carry passes. After visiting …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… 1950s the National Party (NP), which came into power in 1948 introduced harsh and oppressive laws towards blacks. In …
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… signed in Washington D.C. on 1 January 1942. In 1948 the National Party (NP) came to power, introduced the … 150 different religious, social, cultural, and…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… of Mpophomeni the following morning results in the death of Alpheus Nkabinde and the injury of at least twenty …
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… our families and our society. It includes the DNA in our bodies, the language we speak, the culture that we are a part … carbon-12 and carbon-14. Carbon-14…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… of their deaths. Although many aficionados knew of Mekoa’s death within hours of the event, it took most of the media … up, tailing after tributes from…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… Project the Glasgow Centre for Population Health gives the death rate of people in the city as 21 per 1000 per annum in … Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… so strong that he had to do anything he could to avoid the death sentence. I understood that, but also knew that my life … knew that there was a mass of…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… gain in momentum to become an avalanche that will strike a death blow to oppression in South Africa. From Treason Trial …
Indian Opinion
… edited by Sushila Gandhi (Manilal's wife) after Manilal's death. This was to promote nationhood and represent the …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… streets of Soweto, but sadly the march culminated in the death of Hector Peterson. The Apartheid Government had, in …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… He became the acting President of the ANC after the death of ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli in 1967 and was …
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… him in the National Party, but only succeeded him on his death. …