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Orlando Pirates becomes the first Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS
… Orlando Pirates becomes the first Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS …
The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political … The Swiss government sends an official…
African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes Liberia, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, issue charter for Pan-African
… African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes … Liberia, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, issue charter for Pan-African …
Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near
… Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near …
EventThe first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place
… The first hijacking of a South African Airways (SAA) plane took place when two men armed … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
… Matshikiza went on tour to Britain with King Kong, his family followed. In 1964, they went to Lusaka, Zambia, where … then combined stage acting in London…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… body, the League of Nations, and put under South African administration. As result of this development, German … German South West Africa is put under South…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
… with the “Newcomer of the Year” award at the 2015 South African Music Awards.[5] Cassper went on to release his first … Cassper Nyovest, the South African…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
… leadership positions in the United Democratic Front (UDF), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The Gauteng branch…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all fragmented … The Union demanded a minimum wage of ten shillings a day…
BiographyFani Mkhize
… a living dealing in live chickens. He now supports his family by creating wheeled, fur covered wooden animals. Mkize …
BiographyCebisile Yawa
… back and his buttock. He was the sole breadwinner in his family and left behind his young daughter, parents and five …
BiographyBoy Seopa
… necessities through the post office’ and‘always joined the family at Davhana during the holidays such as Good Friday, …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… training at Holy Cross that she first read about the African National Congress (ANC) in a copy of The Bantu … 1948, she married Robert Resha , who was a…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
… and married and settled there in the late 1870s. The family was on a visit to Schleswig Holstein when Freund was … she was appointed as teacher of elocution…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
… . Shirish Nanabhai recalled that, “Every child whose family was part of the struggle received their school … from Quarter’s shop.” Joe Matthews , a veteran…
BiographyDora Taylor
… and together they settled in Claremont , Cape Town . As a family of white middle class immigrants, they became entitled … I.B Tabata , who was the founding…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. … North of Johannesburg. This phase of…
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… It is with deep sadness and regret that the African National Congress has learnt of the death today (12 … fighter for the rights of women. A stalwart of the…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… South Africa in 1924. Their main opposition was the South African Party (SAP) , led by General Jan Smuts , who had been … soared and there was widespread…
BiographyAdam Small
… father. He grew up in a village called Goree after his family moved there a few years after he was born, where his … apartheid regime, especially speaking up…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… met with Hendrik van den Bergh, the head of the South African Police Security Branch. At this meeting, Van den … The South African Bureau of State Security …
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… from a male perspective. Dismissive accounts may mention African female warriors, priestesses, and queens as footnotes … Inhambane, in the southern part of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin Kajee turned from … he and a few of his friends retained office…
EventDundee and Glencoe are retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops during the South African War II
… retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops as the South African War II 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War II 1899-1902) … would later be replaced by General Joachim…
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… and his wife Joanah Radebe. Joel Msimang was a well-known African preacher who founded the Independent Methodist … started in 1912 when he was a founder…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… deeply committed to Afrikaner nationalism arsing from the family's experiences in the South African War, worked as a principal of the Swartland … others. She…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr … of the Non-European Unity Movement …
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… wife” – “well-behaved”, “quiet” and “devoted to her family and husband”. [10] A friend of the couple, Phyllis … Mandela’s mother also frequented their home…
BiographyBonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi
… He then started work in order to support his family. Plummer was never a full time artist. He studied art …