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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
EventJosiah Thugwane wins gold at Olympics
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
ArchiveManifesto of the Communist Party of South Africa by SACP, 30 July 1921, Cape Town
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
EventWorld War I begins
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
EventJohn Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
EventSenior UDF leaders released from detention for being part of the Mandela Birthday celebrations committee
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
EventLegendary artist Johnny Clegg dies
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
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