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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
The register
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
EventSt James Church massacre
EventReservation of Separate Amenities Act No 49 commences
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
ArticleState of the Nation Addresses
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
EventHelen Suzman is born
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
EventDeath in detention of Ahmed Timol
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela, is born
EventNatal Indian Congress is formed
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
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