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”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…
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…
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined Orlando Pirates. He entered the …
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… engagements intended to spread the word about alarming new segregation laws being passed back home. Just how he … of a 13-year-old, he was fluent in seven…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… by Bishop Delalle in February 1911, he recommended that a new church building be erected. The present structure was … of France. His mother impressed upon…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 1 - 8
… don't reoccupy the old camp sites. We don't want to make new fires exactly where the old fires have been. To build new fires on the old sites might invite…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… sent to boarding school in India and grew up there. At the age of seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled … was also a good pianist, having…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued … of the West on Africa. Jabavu died on…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Port Elizabeth. Nelson Mandela succeeds Peter Mda as the new president of African National Congress Youth League … on 1 May. 18 June, Walter Sisulu addresses…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Black women were regarded as minors, irrespective of age or marital status. As a result, Black women had no legal … ”” the interim Constitution of 1993 ,…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… in the Burundi peace process. 5 December, He travels to New York to brief the United Nations Security Council on the … the position of head of the African…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… On Freedom Day, the 27th of April 2000, South Africa got a new coat of arms. It replaced the old coat old arms which had been used since 1910. This new coat…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… life is addressed in her novel So Long a Letter (1981). A new generation of African writers is taking the world by … the best players to ever participate in…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… and open platform to any form of dance as long as it was a new contemporary work. The first edition of the festival … The grant was intended to enable them…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… City Council. It created an African neighbourhood called 'New Brighton' (Swanson, 1977: 401). 1904 Fear of the spread … was passed, updating the Native Land…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica (God Bless Africa) died at the age of thirty-two. He wrote Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica eight years before his death, at the age of twenty…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… She transferred to Drexel University, Philadelphia, at the age of nineteen in pursuit of a communications and political … for young Adichie’s feminism…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… African Defense Force was required for White men over the age of 16 starting in 1967. [iv] Gilder joined the SADF in … true that MK gave the ANC political…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… action. Presumably, it was taken for granted that the new military unit would be under the control of certain … Mandela and Slovo worked to recruit members…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… farm of the widow Scheepers was chosen as the site for the new administrative village. 1806 14 February, Captain Jacob … the settlement of British immigrants…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… walled structures, emulating a later development of Stone Age culture. The chief’s residence (Mambo) was located … out. All restorations have used…
Jason Laure
… Resides in Cape Town. Studied at Columbia University, New York City and Sorbonne, Paris. Awards: Pulitzer Prize … of 32 books. Collection: UNICEF Africa…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… are citizens of the world. The certainties that come with age tell me that among these we shall find an Afrikaner woman … charity but from the desire to…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe? The Great Zimbabwe ruins date from the Iron Age and lie between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the …
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… German and Malay were spoken, these were mixed to form a new language called Afrikaans that is unique to South Africa. … River Valley and the Klein Karoo…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… Many argue that apartheid was simply segregation under a new name, based on the ideological belief that races should … to ‘heal the divisions of the past’…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… encountered during apartheid has continued into the New South Africa. | Michael Oliver’s inspiring claim that … social model of disability, this essay hopes…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… encountered during apartheid has continued into the New South Africa. | Michael Oliver’s inspiring claim that … social model of disability, this essay hopes…
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… politically active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to … a courier for the African National…