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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…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela, (Cape Town) New Word City Editors, (2010), Nelson Mandela's Leadership Lessons, (New York) Stengel, R., (2010),…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… attainable goals - and deliver the same! In this day and age we cannot afford the luxury of waiting for things to … the structures and methodology of our…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… time a proclamation was issued banning the publication of New Age and Torch. Delegates will know the attitude of the Government to New Age, which is the…
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 …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on essentially those liberal …
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…
Defining Black Consciousness
… from the normal which is white. It is a manifestation of a new realization that by seeking to run away from themselves … black. It seeks to infuse the black…
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. …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 at King Edward VII Hospital. She suffered a stroke … Sister of Queen Elizabeth Had a…
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… of corruption. Matanzima died in 2003 in Queenstown at the age of 88. …
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…
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…
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…