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Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… remain determined to be free. The MK cadres crushed to death by a Casspir flattening their shack when they refuse to …
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… days of ‘Northern Rhodesia’. She would point out the high death rate among children under colonial rule in Africa as a …
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… to get to the truth of what had caused the huge death toll and the collision initiated by the SS Darro that …
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… one of the longest serving MEC’s and at the time of her death had been the Limpopo MEC for Agriculture and Rural …
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… on May 24 1921. Leaders of the church dispute the 163 death toll as cited in history records. …
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… Party than the continued oppression, physical ruin, & death by starvation of hundreds of their white brethren of …
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… the disease were spreading in the United States due to the death of 75 people who were thought to have been infected. …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… he was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death by hanging. On 11 November 1995, Saro Wiwa was …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… ending with 100 Bondelswarts fatalities. This included the death of Morris and many women and children.. …
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… institutions to compete with the buying power of overseas bodies, and their ability to preserve work. “The woeful …
Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic Summit Conferences, Doha, State Of Qatar, 12 November 2000
… the UN Millennium Declaration but also those taken by such bodies as the OIC itself, the NAM, the G77 and China, the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… LRC. Constitutional rights will be of little value unless bodies like the LRC are prepared to assist in the …
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… use all your influence over the Town Council and the other bodies employing native labour in town to reconsider your …
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… determined in full consultation with all representative bodies in the Ciskei, be established immediately. Section 43 …
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… and social movements, trade unions, religious bodies, business organisations, women and youth structures as …
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… the Declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 had a special significance. The failure of South Africa …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… St John’s College in Johannesburg, which he attended from 1948 until 1957, and whose school history block is now named …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform … the election to power of the…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… accelerated when the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948. The NP led government began to vigorously implement the … pass laws in the Cape Peninsula, but…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
… left permanent marks on the skin and often caused death. Historical examples of Smallpox: [1] 6th Century – …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of the accession to power of the Nationalist government in 1948 right up to the dying days of the eighties, a period of … been executed by hanging and…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Show is held on the grounds of Hoerskool Nelspruit. 1948 The National Party win the general election and begin to …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1942 The White suburb of Danville is established. 1948 National Party comes to power under DF Malan. The White …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of instituting formal apartheid. The …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… to be, they were ignored. The reason is that after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged …
The Black Face of Apartheid
… fact that some of the incidents took place after Biko’s death, his supporters upheld his philosophy and continued to …
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… Dutch apparently for refusing to give them food. Coree’s death made trade between Europeans and Khoikhoi even more …
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… the Christian explorers, who again narrowly escaped death. The Portuguese squadron sailed from India on 20 …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… Natal on the Native Representative Council until his death in 1946. 1937 Dube is elected as Natal’s delegate at …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… further establishing their prevalence in the means of the death of the pass laws (Brooks, 204). The poster highlighted … of how women once asserted…