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Omar Badsha - Awards, Publications and Exhibitions Timeline
Article
Apr 06, 2023

Omar Badsha - Awards, Publications and Exhibitions Timeline

Timeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Article
Mar 17, 2023

Timeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022

Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching q...

African National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
Article
Mar 16, 2022

African National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) Presi...

COVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
Article
May 11, 2020

COVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020

DECEMBER 2019 31 December – Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China, informs its regional World Health Organization (WH...

Sudan’s Revolution
Article
Apr 16, 2020

Sudan’s Revolution

In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president...

COVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
Article
Apr 16, 2020

COVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus

COVID-19 versus the Corona virus:  What is COVID-19 Exactly? COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease th...

Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
Article
Apr 02, 2020

Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s

1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police ...

Article
Mar 03, 2020

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889

1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from Indi...

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
Article
Mar 03, 2020

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939

1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal.  The ...

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
Article
Mar 03, 2020

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929

1920 January, Gandhi wrote to the press on the South African Appellate Court's judgment in the case of the Krugersdorp ...

Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
Article
Jan 15, 2020

Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground

The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Unde...

The Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Article
Dec 19, 2019

The Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline

Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South...

Legacy: ­A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
Article
Dec 04, 2019

Legacy: ­A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta

1908 Scientists suggest that yet unnamed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first transmitted, from one chimpanzee ...

Timeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Article
Oct 07, 2019

Timeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003

Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of th...

South Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
Article
Aug 07, 2019

South Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis

South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of dem...

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