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ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… Africa to record the war on film. The use of film, as a new medium for propaganda, was discovered and exploited … 1940. 1940 was a decade when Afrikaans…
EventRay Simons dies
… unionist born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in the formation of the …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… was one of the crucial developments in the emergence of a new social documentary photography movement in South Africa and in 1986, when the exhibition opened…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… but was privately tutored at home and matriculated at the age of 14. Two years after her matriculation she enrolled at … Gutsche died of emphysema on 5…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… area which is rich in symbolism and tradition, and the age-old Zulu culture remains today, as visitors are invited … north of the u Thukela River in KwaZulu…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… some 400 Years. Since its discovery in 1932, this Iron Age site has been excavated by the University of Pretoria . … wooden core. The Rhino, featured in one…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… such as the Osscwa Brandwag, the Greyshirts and the Pirow New Order Group; condemned mass police raids on African … of the glorious Soviet Revolution: 'we…
Independent Electoral Commission
… and at the provincial level for legislatures for all nine new provinces. Elections were held on 26-29 April 1994 under … mandate to sit as a Constitutional…
EventSA musician Todd Matshikiza dies
… composer and writer, Todd Tozama Matshikiza, died at the age of 47 in Lusaka, Zambia after a sudden illness. He … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of…
SAHO Milestones
… African City After Apartheid: Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1 Edited by Abebe Zegeye (publication) After Apartheid: Social Identities in the…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… Massachusetts in 1990; Hobart & William Smith Colleges, New York in 1994; the University of Norway in 1997; Yale …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… as a young man he took up transport riding to and from the new diamond fields around Kimberley. He married Jacoba …
EventMac Maharaj announces his retirement
… first democratic administration, he retired at the age of 80 years old in April 2015. …
EventKing Hassan II of Morocco dies
… ruled Morocco for 38 years, died of heart failure at the age of 70 at the Avicenne hospital in Rabat. Hassan's death … Dies at 70; A Monarch Oriented to the…
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… and the AU development and reconstruction programme, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). These … out of an historic process to translate…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… or bar-keepers. Source: John Pampallis, Foundations of the New South Africa. Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991, … his parents.” Source: John Pampallis,…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
… a family of five boys, his politisation began at an early age he was living in Sharpville at the time of the Sharpville …
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the age of 78 of an acute asthma attack in his hotel room in the …
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… mother abandoned him. He was forced to work from a young age in order to help support the family. He began selling …
EventIdi Amin dies
… he had lived in exile for many years. Amin died at the age of 78 as a result of multiple organ failure. His … Amin, Brutal Ruler of Uganda in the 70s, dies "…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… lead in further constitutional reforms”. Furthermore, the new transitional executive would be subject to the control of … started on 2 February 1990 and…
The Bill of Rights
… ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, … i. are inappropriate for a person of…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was affected, but it was … and birds. The reserve also contains relics of iron…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… her Masters and Ph.D. in literature at the University of New Brunswick, in the US. [6] Mugo returned back home and … departed with two small daughters, both…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… deprivation of the Malay (Bumiputra) ethnic majority. The New Economic Policy which was the basis for positive … make it in the developing economy. The…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… “to show the white man that he was equal to him.” By age 19, he had not only published a collection of poetry, A … witnessed the conditions of black South…
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
… Makiwane. Makiwane entered Fort Hare in 1955, when he was age 34. His family lacked the means to send him earlier, and …
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on July 13 at the age of 90. …
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… Jeppe passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, died in Stellenbosch at the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a few members of …