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ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… relief in Bengal 1946 Her political career began at the age of 17 when she was a high school student. The Indian … Capital punishment was abolished thirty…
National Orders Recipients
… reasserts our humanity. In this march towards humanity, a new culture of human rights and a respect for the dignity of … moments of the exodus from the past…
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… when His Majesty, King Sobhuza II, passed away at the age 83 at the Embo State House. The king died after a … time. King Mswati III ascended the throne in…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… (from Ethiopia). Evidence suggests that in the Late Stone Age (3000BCE to 1000BCE) peoples from Ethiopia arrived in … February – KANU wins the first general…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… with a state of emergency, police raids and arrests – and new, more draconian legislation – they played their part in … barristers – Mahommed Ishmail (later…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) talks, where the new constitution for a democratic South Africa was being …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on essentially those liberal …
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
… singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age, and at the age of five, she had tourists paying to hear her sing. Brenda …
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… 17 May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded … On 5 June 1928 Sir James Liege Hulett…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… and I said it. The State of the Nation Address covered the new era we are entering as government. This is an era of … the pace and form of service delivery. …
EventEmmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer, is born
… 1992 in Kumasi, Ghana. He moved to England at a very young age where he attended school in Tottenham. He joined Arsenal at the age of nine and has played…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… National Congress of South Africa on the Farcical Socalled New Constitution', telex copy, n.d. [circa September 1984]. … Policy. The search for status and…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… with a right to strike. But the reforms simply opened new avenues for resistance– by the end of the 1970s the … were meant to hamper strikes and political…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of a lump sum at the end of the person's pensionable age. 38. That military veterans and members of the SANDF … are allowed to benefit from this scheme. 39…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… deep interests in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 he became a sexton Dutch Reformed Church's … Dutch Reformed Church). He was…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… of on-going excavation and advanced research projects, new discoveries are taking place all the time, and since one … While the event was believed to have…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… Consciousness philosophy, died in police custody at the age of thirty. Biko was arrested in the outskirts of … 1982, but this was rejected on the grounds…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… free ourselves from the yoke of apartheid, establish a new democratic order and live together in peace and harmony. … struggle. But democracy is only the…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… Plains, left their farms and headed for California, the new land of "milk and honey" where they believed all one had … out of the Depression. Roosevelt's…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… of power and interest that would reveal themselves, with new bids for authority and wealth, into a new era. …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… of the apartheid government. The 1976 All Blacks (New Zealand's national rugby team) tour of South Africa, … tour of France. However, when the 1981 Springbok…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… way. The earliest inhabitants of this region were Stone-Age hunter-gatherers who roamed an immense area rich in … built in major cities to worship local gods…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… in Pretoria as a result of his assault by the police. A new generation of young Blacks were committed to the struggle … infiltrated into the country in small…
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… Aar on 13 January 1910. She started writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym, Tryna … at the same college for two years. She…
”The Global Information Infrastructure - What is at stake for The Developing World?” address to the Infodev Symposium, 9 November 1999
… for millions of people around the world. Increased trade, new technologies, foreign investments, expanding media and … the agricultural and industrial…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… XIX Document 14 - "Short History of Betrayal", Freedom , New Series, 1, 5, 1 November 1948 Document 15 - "Ruth First , … 1956 Document 27 - Letter from John…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… of this marvelous city and neighbouring areas. Iron Age artifacts and Stone Age artifacts that have been found are also on display. A …
EventKing Mswati III is born
… two of his wives acted as regents until Mswati could be of age to take over the throne. He was crowned in 1986 at the age of eighteen. Mswati has gained a…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… Years after the initial Purchase, the Building of the New Moslem School was commenced. Completed a Year later, the … and the ground cleared for the…