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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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EventThe UN Special Committee on Apartheid reports on SA
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
EventThe 4th Pan-African Congress is held in New York City, USA
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
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