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BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… grouping came into contact with the Rivonia trialists and new ideas. By late 1978, Macozoma and others had become …
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 …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… Africa. Masekela grew up playing the piano and at a young age was introduced to the trumpet by Father Trevor … Guildhall School, then the Manhattan School of…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… traditions were lost. When it merged with another group new oral traditions were born to suit the changing make-up of … tribes were scattered, others…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (1988) Before the new 1996 Constitutional dispensation, legislation for … made in both Zulu Codes which stated that…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… Simons communist and trade unionist, passes away at the age of 91. The ANC releases a press statement on her death. … President Jacob Zuma. 27 November, The…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… Zulu, served this purpose. Sometime during the Early Iron Age, say about AD 800, East African Bantu created a suffix of … the Nguni style is quite different…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… society and the private sector, through SANAC, finalised a new Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS and STIs in South Africa, … for 2007 to 2011. When Mbeki fell…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… The century after Marco Polo’s travels became known as the Age of Discovery. One of the most important of these … Caribbean. He had reached what would become…
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, Sowetan, Kliptown Museum, New Age, Jurgen Schadeberg, South Photos, SASPU National, Andrew …
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… needed their children to find work from as early an age as possible in order to bring in much needed extra money … join gangs. Children in Sophiatown learnt…
EventThe Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
… 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South … restricted to white, Protestant, Afrikaner men…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… and soon was involved in welcoming and orientating new prisoners to the Island. He served on the political … mandated by the NEC chair to propose names for…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… and shifted the country towards the construction of a new political, social and economic order. 27 April, The … chairman of the Constituent Assembly which is…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… food. Towns and cities developed and people had to learn new skills for living in a larger group, like trading extra … years before any Europeans did. These…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… and raw materials, changes in industrial organization and new technology resulted in increased production, efficiency … in living conditions, while at the…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede became the first president of the … of South Africa. Source: Verwey, E.J…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at the age of nine.[iii] Nasty C was previously signed to the Free … Nasty C won awards in four categories,…
PlaceGuinea
… became Guinea-Bissau in 1973, Bissau is its Capital. New Guinea island was named after this region and subsequently gave the name to the country Papua New…
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… of command and the efficacy of detachments. Training new recruits also absorbs already scarce resources. According … by the high HIV rates found in soldiers…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
… production was also a very important feature of Iron Age society. The Iron Age women were skilled potters. Pots were used for cooking …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… democracy, resigned to form his own opposition party. The new party, Kenya People’s Union (KPU) was constantly harassed … the Forum for the Restoration of…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… care of a young child. Neither of these lasted long. At age 17, Makeba became pregnant with a man named Gooli. He was … her gain an American visa, which…
PlaceMpumalanga
… ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part … by tsetse flies, his business was ruined…
EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… Gauteng) on 26 August 1978. She began high jumping at the age of 13 when she was discovered by her coach Martin Marx. … the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
… be banned by the government. Moodley settled into her new role as editor, where she played an essential role in the …
Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung
… engendered by fear and jealousy among nations. Source: New Age, Cape Town …
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… and hoping that he would be able to usher Malawi into a new era. Banda died in a hospital in South Africa in 1997, at the age of 101 and despite the…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor … consecrated Bishop of Northern…