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ArticleHealth and welfare
… the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the new democracy, after almost 5 decades of legitimised racial … introduced free health care to all…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening ceremony of Telecom 95, the 7th World Telecommunications Forum and Exhibition Geneva, 3 October 1995
… potential for transition to a truly democratic information age. The ITU is a body of crucial importance for South Africa … via Europe rather than directly…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… and announced the establishment, aims and character of the new Party. The conference formally established the Communist … such as; The Clarion, The People's…
The Children’s Charter
… Children should not be made to work before a certain age. Children should not be beaten or abused. All children …
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… Britain’s smallest church. Cross Island Chapel in Oneida, New York, situated in the middle of a pond is known as the … gift to his wife Mims West-Thomas who…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… was taking place six months into what was supposed to be a new era of negotiation. But police were astonished at what … July 1990, in the midst of delicate…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… C. Havenga. Dr D. F. Malan became prime minister at the age of seventy-four and formed the first government dominated … Illustrated History of South Africa:…
Closing Remarks to the 53rd National Conference of the ANC by President Jacob Zuma, December 2012, Mangaung
… put into motion in the last few years. This relates to the new growth path, the state-led industrial policy as well as … outstanding organisational issues…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… township. By 1970 the population was already 50 000. No new housing units had been built since 1966 and from 1970 to … R28, 56. ('Coloured' R199, Asian -…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… in the mid-sixties by Margaret Constance Matthews, a New Zealander by Birth, from her sister, Mrs Thurlow. … is Buried next to a family member Claire who…
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… then decide what steps he is going to take in the future. New Age , Cape Town, June 14, 1962 …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at the age of 76 after a 30 minute performance for Roberto Saviano … 'Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies'…
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… pierced seashells, dating back to the Later Stone Age has been found in Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains, West of Kosi Bay. There are also Iron Age Sites…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… in the Republic, mainly because the diamond fields created new markets and brought in new trade. In 1866, the new Anglican Cathedral was opened in … of an…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… Moshoeshoe and the Basotho Kingdom The Swazi Kingdom Other New Formations The Experience of Displacement The Mfengu and … of existing chiefdoms, and the…
Chapter X - Final word
… the way I used to? Would my voice be strong enough? Was age catching up with me? Almost at once I knew that it wasn't … The old all-white Parliament is gone…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Eugene Nielen Marais began writing at a very young age. By the age of 12, he was a published writer. Marais became famous as … early education were in…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… of Angola (FNLA). Savimbi became foreign minister of the new organization’s Government of the Republic of Angola in …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… outcome of the meeting between La Guma and Bukharin is a new draft resolution sent back to South Africa “suggesting” the CPSA adopt a new slogan: “An…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… “Zie, Ik maak alle dingen nieuw” ("See! I make all things new"). In 1917 the University of Pretoria started with the … painter Vincent van Gogh) appear on…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… tried to facilitate African migration to an area called 'New Brighton' but was largely unsuccessful in this goal … within South Africa as well as abroad …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… agriculture and food supply while retaining control in the new settlement. As the settlement expanded, slavery also … were set for winter and summer, slave…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… we see that to a certain extent the forces that shaped the new industrial society in the early mining days continued to … A central theme of this Section is…
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… 87 now, Joe 86. Ruth died tragically and brutally at the age of 57, at the hands of the notorious Special Branch of … It was banned ,came out under different…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… way south to the Bay of Natal, swelling the size of the new settlement to 25. By combining their skills and labours … Under the direction of Capt Allen…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… the initial success, Cole died destitute and lonely in New York in 1990 and until recently his story was largely … several exhibitions in South Africa and…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… historians look back at this period as its golden age. However the extent of suffering wreaked by the VOC in … commemorated variously in The Netherlands as…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… an American identity. 1927 Sisulu leaves school at the age of 15. His mother works in faraway East London, and … precludes democracy and Walter and other ANC…
ArticleSita’s story
… had left in charge of the Phoenix Settlement at the tender age of eighteen. This was the beginning of his and later our … born and he was named Arun. I was…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… and the Orange River Colony and the creation of a new Inter-Colonial Council charged with managing the new rail system, the Constabulary and issues common to…