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EventSouth Africa begins occupation of South-West Africa
… Few years after the Second Anglo-Boer War (11 Oct 1899 – 31 May 1902), the European continent got …
EventSteytler launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
… Laws Amendment Bill, published by the government on 12 May 1962 defining the crime of sabotage in the widest …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National … of Fort Hare', from Nelson Mandela Organisation, 12 October, [online], Available at …
EventPres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London.
… On 9 July 1998 President Nelson Mandela visited England. On 12 July 1998 he concluded his four-day visit to England by …
EventEbrahim, Maseko and Dladla are abducted in Swaziland
… sentence, while Maseko and Dladla were sentenced to 23 and 12 years respectively. …
EventMonty Naicker dies
… orders that were imposed on him. Naicker died, age 67, on 12 January 1978. …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… planning on the part of the said security forces. Dates differ in various sources. …
UCT Summer School 2020
… (de facto) or a few thousand (de jure), inhabit 11 000 hectares of land which comprises Buysdorp in the … Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, UNISA…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… intervene on their behalf. 1926 December 17 1926 - January 12 1927, The First Round Table Conference is held between the … Cape Town. 1927 Dadoo returns to…
IX - The Doctors
… doctors who saw Biko between 7 September and his death on 12 September why no effective medical treatment was given. … was prescribed for Biko at Sydenham…
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… was found guilty by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 11 charges of aiding and abetting the rebels who went on a …
EventSA joins World War II
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 512. Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a …
EventAlgerian head of state Mohamed Boudiaf assassinated
… Sources: Algeria Return to Authoritarianism, January 11, 1992. Website: photius.com …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 217. Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… differ as to the date of his birth; some give it as 11 June 1892, others as 1896. Kottler studied art in …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… with legal advice, practical aid and education. On 11 July 1963, Bob Hepple was one of seven people arrested at …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. He died on 11 December 2003 in France. …
PlaceAmanzamnyama, a small size Town in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… learners. The school starts with Grade 8 to Grade 12. The subjects taught in school are: English; Mathematics; …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… Trade Unions (COSATU), held its third annual congress from 12-16 July 1989. The congress, attended by 1858 delegates …
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… with inoperable cancer of the throat. He died in Durban on 12 April 1988. …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… them off a Portuguese slaver. A second school, attended by 12 White children, four slaves and one Khoi-Khoi, was opened … Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa,…
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
… the University of Bloemfontein from 1922- 42. He died on 12 April 1969 in Bloemfontein. … Available at: britannica.com [Accessed 18 May 2009] …
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… started in 1835 when over a three year period more then 12,000 Boers (farmers) left the Cape Colony. They trekked …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… more on South Africa's role in World War II, see our Grade 12 lesson, 1924-1948: South Africa's Foreign Relations. … higher pay. The police crushed the…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… in Africa. Thus, Angola attained official independence on 11 November 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, … the US, UNITA was also supported by…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… from Robben Island to Pollsmoor prison after spending 18 years on Robben Island. Between 1984 and 1989 secret … 1990, that Mandela would be released the next…
Indian education in Natal
… estate. 1868 In the Brooks 1868 Parliamentary Papers Vol. 18 states that the Reverend Ralph Stott established a day … prevented by the 9 o?clock curfew bell…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… Robben Island in Cape Town Image source Robben Island lies 12 km away from Cape Town. It has been used in various ways … granted the right to own slaves. In…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… melancholy and snappish, but a good workman. His wife died 12 months ago, and he has since lived alone. The other … the year 1902. The birth rate for the…
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
… 2700 pounds. It was capable of holding 2 500 000 gallons ( 11,36Ml), and there was an immediate improvement in the water … was over 12metres deep, and held…