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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 …
EventHelen Joseph dies
… rights activist, Helen Beatrice May Joseph , died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg , South Africa. She came to SA in … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… to promote this suggestion. In Verwoerd’s view the new division should be only between those that gave their … 'race'. He soon abandoned attempts to co…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… of the Second World War could never happen again. This new, post-war world would be one of justice, dignity and peace. The cornerstone of this new vision was…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… regime to the people as a whole. This will usher in a new era characterised by the complete eradication of the … for all our people. The basic principle…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… single they released might as well have been recorded in New York or Detroit,” historian John Mason concludes. “The … with Duke Ellington as “not a question…
EventAmanda Coetzer, SA’s highest ranked tennis star, is born in Hoopstad, OFS
… born on 22 October 1971 and began playing tennis at the age of six. Coetzer began her professional tennis career in …
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… for controlling local matters. All citizens over the age of sixteen, including foreigners who had been naturalised …
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… a significant growth in the number of members under the age of 35. The 7th Congress was also significant in the sense … of "glasnost", reviewed the 1962…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… Anton Mziwakhe Lembede passed away at the a very early age of 33, leaving a leadership gap that the organisation … Hadebe instructed Mbeki to disband SASA…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… old at the time, displayed leadership skills from a young age. He was already the chairman of the Natal Indian … of another hut close by. No sooner had she…
PlaceFlagstaff
… falls therefore falls onto the shoulders of the 15-64 age groups. The high number of young people suggests that … in terms of the gender distribution between…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… then became an official language and the country got a new flag. The Pact Government (1924-1938) After the Pact … Government's 1924 election victory, South…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… and chair of the ANC Youth League and local agent for the New Age recruits Hani to the ANCYL. 1958 Hani matriculatess at … of the SACP due to illness Hani is…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… of Unity” of this conference click here . 16 December, The new ANC constitution is adopted at the Congress’s annual … President Anton Lembede died…
EventMinister of Public Works Stella Sigcau dies
… Sigcau died at Durban's St Augustine Hospital at the age of 69. Sigcau died of a recurring heart problem. In 1994 …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… Island. Babenia passed away on 1 January 1999 at the age of 75. …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on essentially those liberal …
Address of the president of the republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to the summit meeting of the OAU heads of state and government Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 8 1998
… this occasion, this old man, on foreseeing the birth of a new century, borrows words from a departed freedom fighter … of positions which those who come…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… you have ben alerted to my achievement in reaching the age of eighty years! As another year draws to a close, … government's term, and on the eve of a…
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… commonly known as dagga. It is alarming to note that the age of first experimentation with substances has dropped from … has its own unique challenge. In…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… supported by the African National Congress (ANC) marked a new stage of political trade unionism. These demands greatly … ANC in hiding, a still repressed…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… democratic parliament. I wish all of you a productive New Year in the service of the people. As government, we are … few of them, particularly, difficulties…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… democratic parliament. I wish all of you a productive New Year in the service of the people. As government, we are … few of them, particularly, difficulties…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… , 1990 - 1994. The mission of the GNUwas to oversee a new South African Constitution , as well asto radically … politics in August 1996, and that the NP had…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… to demand higher wages. In the following years, numerous new workers’ organisations sprang up, especially in the main … with left-wing students and academics…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… to demand higher wages. In the following years, numerous new workers’ organisations sprang up, especially in the main … with left-wing students and academics…
PlaceGold Reef City
… into life in Johannesburg long before the technological age. In the centre of Gold Reef City stands Shaft No 14 which …
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
… Protea player to score a first class century at the age of 16. Cullinan retired from international cricket in …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the age of 80. …