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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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EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
EventKing Moshoeshoe dies
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo win a Grammy
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
EventEdenburg is founded
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
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