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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 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
EventWole Soyinka is born
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
Event