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EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… a referendum in which white voters decided whether South Africa should remain a member of the British Commonwealth of … eighteen years and included the…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
… politics when he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in his second year at university. During this … of the ANC and the NIC and actively…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… voted in favour of the formation of the Union of South Africa. During the following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in Britain granting power…
Address by President Zuma on the occasion of his Inauguration as fourth President of South Africa
… Inauguration as fourth President of the Republic of South Africa 09 May 2009 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, … Members of the Diplomatic corps, Mama…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… he has for 500 years and includes 24 slave ancestors from Africa, India and Southeast Asia as well as locally born … Muslim, Buddhist and Afro-Asian…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… , apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli … male poets: 'Woman, the winsome song of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida This book, History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first…
EventTwenty-six miners trapped in a Swaziland coal mine are rescued with help from South Africa.
… the Mine’s management immediately requested from South Africa’s Chamber of Mines. The Ingersoll-Rand rescue drill … This kind of rescue was the first of its…
BiographyGertrud Theiler
… regarded and frequently consulted. On her return to South Africa in 1924 Theiler taught Biology for 15 years. After two … Dew Medal of the Parasitological…
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
… in the South African law Reform Commission at the time. Of all her achievements and high profile positions that she has … (SAWLA) and Business Women’s…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as South Africa's second democratically elected president in front of … 57th birthday. The occasion was also a farewell to South…
BiographyBob Hepple
… graduate in 1957. He was admitted as an attorney in South Africa in 1958. From 1959 to 1961, he was a lecturer in Law … illegal for whites to spend the…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… The Second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa, Uprooting poverty in South Africa: Report for the 2nd Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in…
Lost in Transformation? Reviewing 20 Years of Transformation in South Africa
… As South Africa prepares to celebrate 20 years of democracy, the Ahmed … Reviewing 20 Years of Transformation in South Africa . The conference will cover a…
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
… most unusual members, made his Test debut - for South Africa vs Australia at Durban in their final series before … years and 222 days - is a record. Traicos…
EventKamalesh Sharma delivers a speech at the 2010 Nelson Mandela Africa Lecture
… His speech mainly focused on the “The Commonwealth and Africa”. Sharma described the relationship between Commonwealth and Africa as a vital component,…
BiographyEduardo Mondlane
… Tanzania. He attended Witwatersrand University in South Africa until forced to withdraw by the new apartheid-oriented … of the United Nations, a position…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… and Greg Marinovich’s book of the same name about South Africa’s bloody transition to democracy. One might think that … required by the correspondents of old…
EventSouth Africa is said to resume its membership of the Commonwealth
… at the Commonwealth Headquarters in London, that South Africa would resume its membership of the Commonwealth, … most of these countries are British colonies…
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched to articulate the interests … powers of traditional leaders in the new…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… Council began deliberations on the situation in South Africa, under an agenda item entitled: "The situation arising … discrimination and segregation in the…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… 27 years in prison. His freedom followed the repeal of all major apartheid laws including the lifting of the ANC … Frederik Willem de Klerk served as…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the … At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly…
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa), launched the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. The…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented South Africa in the first international game against Cameroon in … Mkhalele and Jerry Sikosana. He had…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… of his famous father, a former governor-general of South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg,29 June in 1918 and … and his wife and Jordan Ngubane…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … Congress of the Communist International as a panacea for all ills in all…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… Published by Human and Rousseau. Pp275-278. South africa, 1979. Spread across the map like fragments of … way up to the top of the hardest-working business…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… to the legendary Kilimanjaro mountain. Events in South Africa have moved with tremendous speed since this Ad Hoc … regime initially rejected out of hand our…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist Party (SACP) … her life to achieving a free and…