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BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… of Witwatersrand in Transvaal (now Gauteng) 1961, at the age of 25, that Loots was recruited into the ANC’s military …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) are outlawed. April, New Age is banned. Countrywide, 55 of its staff members, … secretary of the Textile Workers Union,…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Bibliography
… Sea . London, Hakluyt Society, 1980. Maggs, Tim. Iron Age Communities of the Southern Highveld . Pietermaritzburg, … Natal Museum, 1976. Mason, Revil…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
… elections Sparg served in various capacities under the new government, she was appointed as the Town Clerk of the …
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… 3.3 million years ago. There is also proof of early stone-age, middle stone-age, later stone-age, early and late iron-age and modern people. Thousands of …
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… front against the Koornhof Bills and the proposed new constitution was presented. Manual was involved in the …
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… this period he was active in organizing opposition to the new laws enforcing apartheid and in establishing labour …
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… Party in the June 1924 elections. Hertzog became the new Prime Minister and included two Ministers from the Labour …
BiographyDullah Mohamed Omar
… Protector. Omar was also instrumental in setting up the new prosecution system headed by the National Director of …
BiographyPeter Becker
… of others. He was a fellow of the Explorers' Club of New York and his interest in the life-styles of different …
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… the Kate Stoneman Democracy Award (Albany Law School, New York, U.S.A (2003), the Tshwane Outstanding Service Award …
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… University. Despite demonstrations by students under the new SRC, Tiro was not readmitted.One of his earlier …
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… 2000. In May 1994 he was elected chairperson of the New Constitutional Assembly. A position he resigned in May …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… abandoned, the Boers had to decide where to establish a new capital. In 1883 General Petrus Jacobus (Piet) Joubert … Pretoria and a land surveyor was…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… areas that are too dry to farm with crops and move on to a new home when their herds have finished all the available … the San, who were hunter-gatherers,…
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… Cavendish-Bentinck. She was educated at home, and at the age of 10 she was fluent in French. At the age of 13, she attended private school in London and…
ArchiveCollective Leadership in the Soviet Union
… Article by Michael Harmel in "New Age" - 'Collective Leadership in the Soviet Union'. Discusses …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… the early days of the last millennium several great Iron Age kingdoms existed in southern Africa. Thulamela, … kingdoms. We are first going to examine what…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… Reforms Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin and his new communist government initiated many reforms. They took … allowed to attend schools. They began…
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… President of the Natal Indian Congress, in a statement to New Age .] While in the herrenvolk climate of South Africa Dr … by tendering his resignation from…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… – Khoi/San were forced off their land: NO FIREPOWER New diseases – with no natural immunity, small pox caused … primitive people. Who the San were: People…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… her unborn child’s father, Gooli. In 1950, at the young age of eighteen, Makeba gave birth to her first daughter, … passed away. She rushed to the South…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… and the South African Permanent Force. In 1957 the New Defence Act, Act No.44 of 1957 was passed, merging the … SADF Reserve Contact records of all former…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… joined the editorial team of the political newspaper, the New Age. Mbeki was sentenced to life imprisonment during the 1964 … Africa. Govan Mbeki passed away…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… 1965-1977, under the editorship of Donald Woods. At the age of 24, Massey Hicks published the first edition of the … Thomas William Goodwin bought the paper…
ArchiveWhy the United Front failed: Disruptive role of the PAC by Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… role of the PAC, by Dr Y M Dadoo, an article published in New Age, March 29, 1962. The article gives reasons for the … New Age, 29 March 1962 … Why the…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in the new democratic South Africa under former President Nelson …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… has oversight over the implementation of South Africa’s new constitution, adopted in 1996 and was elected to the … economy out of turbulence towards fiscal…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… country was included without any question, in the new territory added to Britain's possessions". Sekhukhune rejected this new British position scornfully. By…
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… grouping came into contact with the Rivonia trialists and new ideas. By late 1978, Macozoma and others had become …