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EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… experiences of societal development in order to bring about social renewal as well as explore issues surrounding …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… was held at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg to talk about a program of action. Around 3000 showed up and mooted …
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… are seen as portents or signs that tragic events are about to occur. Halley's Comet has been known since 240 and …
EventJameson Raid starts
… Leander Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from …
PlaceRosmead
… Government Railway station and was formally established on about 2 April 1883, when the Railway Line from Cradock was …
EventBob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
… the match-fixing saga. If you would like to read more about Bob Woolmer please visit cricinfo.com. In addition BBC …
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… 1879 and imprisoned in Pretoria. Click here to read more about the Bapedi Kingdom. …
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… a former German officer. Click here to read more about the Bapedi. References: Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). …
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… battle in 2002. Since the beginning of civil war in 1975, About 1 million people had been killed and the country's …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… a peculiar way of running that made it look like he was about to fall over at any moment, leading to him later being …
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… of 1 Sept. I endorse much of what you say, particularly about hatred. I agree with your views on honour and respect. …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… Africa and Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… authorities on 4 June. The students were unhappy about being compelled to use Afrikaans as a medium of …
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… thousands of people and her funeral was attended by about 20 000 people, a sign of her close relationship with …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… organisation called on all workers to stay away from work. About 7 000 FOSATU workers at the Uitenhage branch of …
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
… was adopted. The OAU was committed to helping bring about change and freedom to many African countries and …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… as ‘the most famous white woman in South Africa’, and about whom he has written a biography. Uys, either as himself …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… of David Beresford Pratt, two psychiatrists gave evidence about his mental condition. The case was heard at the Supreme …
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… time in the Museum, taking in this History and learning about the City. On the outside of the museum are the very …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… was to rushed in a large force of policemen into Soweto. About 1 500 police officers, carrying a variety of automatic …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… their hundreds and thousands. The crowd was estimated at about 15 000 by the end of the meeting. People had been … days before his arrest, in June 1952,…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… on Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich’s book of the same name about South Africa’s bloody transition to democracy. One … photojournalists. Rwandan journalist…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… the Soweto Uprising? What are the true historical facts about the Soweto Uprising? These facts are found in State … of other religions. Many witnesses…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… parliament”. President De Klerk addressed parliament about his plans for an elected interim government. He desired … been strengthened by the inequality and…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… township that was built in the old KwaZulu homeland about 25km from the town of Ladysmith. The area was … evicted from Khumalosville, a freehold area cleared…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… frontier, was a powerful trading state from about A.D. 700 to 1075. The Malinké Kingdom of Mali had its … the leadership of Soundiata Keita, it reached its…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… in South Africa, presented at the Sixth When we talk about "colour prejudice" as a factor in the South African … a British dragoon regiment to "clear the…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… 15 exhibition halls and sculpture gardens display only about 10% of its entire collection at any one time. The … these exhibitions and provided explanations…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… the development of an expanding and revised mindset in and about Afrikaans, and to the appreciation and development of …
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… out in 2011 “in light of the constitutional rhetoric about a “non-racial” or non-racist South Africa.” [10] …