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BiographyFort Calata
… second inquest after the disclosure on 22 May 1992 by the New Nation newspaper of a Top Secret military signal calling …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… of Amiri Baraka, Don L. Lee and Ishmael Reed offered him a new mode for expansion and expression. Unable to return to …
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… when she had arrived. As Minister of Education to the new government, she was able to reduce the illiteracy rate by …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… hearing F W de Klerk 's speech in 1994, declaring a new South Africa, he said 'Gee, at last! What I had dreamt, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…