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EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… southernmost tip of Africa. The seas around Cape Agulhas - about two hours drive from Cape Town - are very treacherous …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… The White burghers of the area had hard feelings about this declaration and they called on Commandant-General …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… mine near Sasolburg, Orange Free State , caved in. About 1,000 miners were in the mine at the time and 435 died …
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Beliefs and Folklore in Southern Africa v Some Doubts about 'Indigenous Knowledge', And The Argument From Epistemic …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… the internet and instant messages and social networks. About 61% of internet users in rural areas are accessing it … Selling the Cell Phone, History of…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… African History [online] Available at www.africanhistory.about.com [Accessed 22 July 2011] Naval-History.net, …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… of the Treason Trial dates back on 5 December 1956, when about 156 anti-apartheid activists were arrested in South …
Firstly, as to COST
… the killings particularly of women and children; CONCERNED About the damage violence is inflicting on all aspects of the …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the agriÂcultural sphere were not unreservedly …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This picturesque place has been …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… at New Brighton, Port Elizabeth and tells the Blacks about the decision that everyone should stay away from their … Basutoland. They have discussions there…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… became friends. I would like to share with you my thoughts about the contribution that she made to the constitutional … we dismount the tiger - but we had…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… and focus on implementing programmes that will bring about relief to the infected and affected, and those which … that in the final analysis, the HIV and…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… graduate school, she was always self-conscious and worried about what to wear, so as to be taken seriously. [19] She … in Nsukka and had written a memoir,…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… burial ground to accommodate the Cape Peninsula’s dead for about the next 200 years. The cemetery was estimated to be … was contacted by the Mvalwana family…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… poor students as only a liability and really did not care about the accessibility and financial burden these increases … institution to engage students to…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… on the 26 April. 28 April, following numerous complaints about poor arrangements at some polling stations, President … Act 34 of 1995 to help heal the…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… aren't you showing apartheid?" But my photographs are all about apartheid, I'm just not showing the customary signs. My … consciousness to see around corners…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… a growing university – overall student numbers rising from about 5900 in 2006 to almost 7500 in 2014; the number of black students increasing from just under…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… the daily press has all of a sudden becomes so solicitous about the welfare of the Indian workers and the masse when, in the past, the same press ignored…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… and two dresses. With the ANC in exile, she wrote about about joining politics and being forced to leave behind her … the National Assembly. Worse, the EFF…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… Lesotho on Thursday, 9 December 1982, I started writing about my comrades and the raid generally. When we sought help … a pillow. I could see flares. One had…
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
… clothing manufacturers. The agreement for the industry was about to terminate in July and, in March the union submitted … the hall and many more stood in the…
PlaceNyanga Township
… kilometres south of Bellville, Goodwood and Parow and about 26 kilometres from the City centre. It has been … and farms (and later factories). The system…
PlacePaarl
… the Valley of Drakenstein on the west side. It consists of about thirty habitations disposed in a line, but so far … as to form a street from half a mile to…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… the Port and its surrounding territory to a radius of about 3 km to the Cape Colony and named it East London . At about the same time Smith decided to…
ArchiveAri Sitas in Conversation with Sumangala Damodaran
… collaborated on a number of musical and academic projects) about his latest collection of poems, The Vespa Diaries … borders on a joke to make such a serious…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… amongst the free blacks) also went in search of a farm of about 29 acres next to the Eerste (First) River in … is not the first to make mistakes or be…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… population although they could discover nothing solid about its scale, its effectiveness, or who directed and … breaking the surface; but only rumour and…