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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 …
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. …
EventCommandant General Hiemstra announces the outcomes of Anglo-South African deliberations
… April 1957. The SA Navy was to also acquire three new Type 12 (modified Rothesay Class) anti submarine frigates, ten Ton …
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… National Congress in exile for thirty years, died on 23 April 1993. Yet his legacy lives on. Comrade O.R. left us … in the deaths of 42 men, women and…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… control the region. Dom Francisco de Almeida arrives with 23 ships and about 1,500 soldiers. Mombasa is bombed and the … Jack and the raising of the Kenyan…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… refusal to even consider the request and a year later on 23 May 1699, Sheikh Yusuf died. He was buried on a hill … Street to Lowry Street then became known…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… in Europe so they would be effective in garnering support. 12 If the missionary's camera partially robbed native South … paintings as their subject and…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… a narrator ‘who is limited but not wholly unreliable’ (23) and gives examples of when one can read David’s … ( Disgrace 11 ) ; ‘evasive and perhaps even…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… in March 1856 increased the number of Volksraad members to 23, with six from Rustenburg. On 9 March 1857, the Transvaal … of annexation was announced in…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… the lead in issuing a warning to the South African regime. 12 April, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) … and open its membership to all bona…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 28 Negotiations: a strategic perspective 25 November 1992 As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… on an umrah (a lesser pilgrimage) in Saudi Arabia in 1985. The 1980s were a turbulent period for the Claremont … for the interdict and renovations were…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… All preparations for the revolt were kept secret. On 12 January, several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … and thirst as they fled through the…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… On 31 January 1985 the State President of South Africa, PW Botha, speaking … mass meeting in Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, on 10 February, 1985. This text was…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
… 10,665 residents, of whom 3,517 were literate 1875 census: 12,721 residents, of whom 4,483 were literate 1891 census: …
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… to descend, but returning to the surface took an agonising 12 hours. The quick descend and slow return to surface is a …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… in the new democratic South Africa. As a result, Chapter 12 was drafted onto the South African constitution. …
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor in 1691, was …
EventLocal elections receive go
… An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to …
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Gold Medal of the South African Nursing Association on 12 May 1961 in recognition of distinguished and exceptional …
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… In 1844 Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony under a …
PlaceTimour Hall Primary School, Plumstead
… 1977. Mr Maggs retired at the end of 1996 after nearly 23 years of service to the school. He was succeeded by Mr B …
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), …
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… ANC: Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today 20-23 September 2011 The 100th anniversary of the African …
PlaceSahlumbe
Sahlumbe, a Settlement along the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of;…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… could successfully overturn an arrest such as Thibedi's. 23 In late May, six weeks after the Potchefstroom branch was … (MPO 2/1/144). MPO 2/1/356 959…
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…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… kiss in one of their earliest productions, Miss Julie in 1985, which still plays in theatres around the world as their …