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EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… torture. Sipiwe Bholo and Sipho Gavin were sentenced to death three times (later commuted to life sentences) while …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… All were members of the African National Congress. The death of Xolo came after a series of killings and arson. …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a …
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… pen-and-ink or crayon. About four years before his death in 2006, it was alleged that forgeries were printed and …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people. 26 370 Boer women and children …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… 2007 he married Kundi Jangano in Khartoum. After his death on 3 January 2008, his body was returned to South …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No machine capable of drilling holes large …
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… receiving very little formal education, Plaatje at his death in 1932 left behind a prodigious body of journalism. He …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… the most hallowed of Muslim cemeteries in Cape Town. 1807 Death of Tuan Guru 25 Tuan Guru died at the ripe old age of … 4. Hadrat Shah Goolam Mohamed Soofie …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… historians have often neglected those aspects of the pre-1948 city (and, more accurately, the city before the forced … Movement pushed for the immediate…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… of the good by-products of the campaign: it has dealt a death blow to hooliganism and drunkenness...." This same … some established groups, such as local and…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… of the good by-products of the campaign: it has dealt a death blow to hooliganism and drunkenness...." This same … some established groups, such as local and…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… from supporting the British, but these attempts failed. In 1948, shortly after the war, the NP won the national election … ANC’s Chief Representative…
Concluding Remarks
… as SASO) and its publications, was banned. The violent death in detention of SASO's first president, Steve Biko, … raised fists, dilapidated corrugated…
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… to fill the void, as they drink they expose their frail bodies to water borne illnesses. Millions are ravaged by … helpless millions, imposing avoidable…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… towards the realization of communism. [15] However, the death of Lenin in 1924 brought the NEP to an end. At the … led the Soviet Government from 1917 to…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This … was that segregationist measures passed before 1948 were less…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994
… of their functioning simply as duplicates of their mother bodies. Needless to say, what is needed are creative … this effort, I am consulting with relevant…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Honoris Causa Degree Ceremony, at the Salón de Diputados, Old Congress, Santiago, Chile, 7 June 2005
… universities and research institutions and in our regional bodies such as the African Union and the Community of South … Chile and South Africa, as well as…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was completely abolished, bringing an end to a …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. The Queen of England, who was …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… November), Taaibosch was killed at Dawidsberg. After the death of Taaibosch, the Basotho army overwhelmed the Batlokwa …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… ties with Moscow. In the entire discourse on the death of Lumumba, the role of the United Nations is seldom …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of African National Congress(ANC) members sentenced to death, and mobilised support for their families, as well as …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… purpose of the group. Mahlangu was then sentenced to death. In addition, Motloung was so badly beaten in …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… was then forced to eat their oxen and walk back, or face death. They eventually returned to the Cape on 22 January …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… conditions, malnutrition, diseases and in many instances, death. The scorched earth policy had been implemented by …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… children and 1 676 elderly men, died in these camps. The death toll in Black concentration camps, housing Africans who …