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Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… a minor hereditary chief. Chief Gadla Mandela is one of a score of grandsons of Ngubengcuka, the great Thembu … four wives with whom she would have three…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… of South Africa (CPSA) in Potchefstroom in the Transvaal. One meeting addressed by Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana and John … meant for the leaders of the CPSA…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… was a shortage of types. Virji Damodar Mehta (who would one day found his own printing press, Universal Printing … averaged at about 2000. The highest number…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… attractive Natal Coastal plain. Natal had been regarded as part of the British sphere of influence since the … of Retief, but other sources site additional…
Domestic work
… to the ability of the leaders to come to terms with one another on a new dispensation. No-one can escape this simple truth. On its part, the Government will…
PlaceGardens, Cape Town
… Town and was probably so named because it incorporated part of Van Riebeeck's original gardens. Lying sandwiched … joined by Kloof Nek . Gardens is a very…
PlaceRichmond
… were literate. The Division of Richmond was originally part of the District of Colesberg, and was proclaimed a … P H Kritzinger attacked Richmond. They…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… of the foundation of the African National Congress. One of these, Pixley ka Izaka Seme, had declared in 1906: … in which we have no voice in the making of…
Chapter 5
… unions and civic and church bodies, etc., all of which had one purpose, the fight for liberation. But each one worked in … But the so-called spontaneity of…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… useful to workers. Section 23, the most relevant one here, is entitled "Labour relations" and reads: Everyone … to form and join employers' organisations and…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… is very young and buys a welding machine. He takes up part-time welding and carpentry classes. 1970 Robert … the formative influence of a highly politicised…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… popular in Europe at the time. Anti-Semitism was a major part of Nazi Party ideology. The false Social Darwinist … they would be 'resettled'. In reality,…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… affairs and to elect a constituent assembly based on a one-person-one-vote basis in a united South Africa, which would draft … The ANC maintained that…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, … it assured the delegates that they had come together with "one aim in view-to take…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… human rights. From a representative of a small faction of one ethnic group Gandhi was forced by the logic of his … the Asiatic Registration Bill of 1906. The…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… and Indian Representation Bill, which was in two sections. One dealt with the acquisition of land and occupation and … movement, was issued. This managed a…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… view, refute aesthetic concerns; rather, it directs how one approaches aesthetics and "the artistic task". Later, … growing thing that people can relate to,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… ANC on the prospect of a peaceful transfer of power. As part of the process Rivonia Treason trialists and other … files on Africans in the Western Cape. The…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… trade relations with South Africa. Tanganyika became one of the first countries in Africa to impose sanctions on … against and disinvestment from South…
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards and Mike Procter were not part of that decision. Following the re-admittance by the … ICC, the Proteas have gone on to…
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… was launched nationally in 1989, the Traditonal Leaders part of the organisation had become one of the ANC's most important rural partners. After the …
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… cause of conflicts, instabilities, wars and subjugation of one human being by another. It constitutes the difference … buffer to the development and…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Themba’s temporary home and, not long after, his permanent one as well when he died there at the age of 44. At the end, … Blake [xxii] , and it only made…
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
… dancers, musicians and actors to help facilitate full and part-time courses to for adolescent and adult students. They were also a part of a committee, which…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
… taken to be scanned for evidence1. On this occasion one of the persons involved in this cascade of deaths can be … without losing sight of his humanistic…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… opinion. The government believed that this newspaper was part of the “hate South Africa crusade”. More than this, the … Vorster and Mulder to resign and to…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… most of the women worked. ............... My father took part in the 1913 Gandhi Strike against the £3 "tax imposed on … brother, who was about 16 years old…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… in the heart of Braamfontein, The Wits Art Museum is one of Johannesburg’s foremost tourist attractions. The museum is part of the Wits University Cultural…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the hot Spring is in the Ai-Ais Resort … the Southern end of Namibia's Fish River…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged victorious from this war also … Lt-Col Pierre van Ryneveld and Capt. CJQ…