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EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… guilty of murder and was sentenced to death by hanging. On 11 November 1995, Saro Wiwa was executed, as were the other …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Malan and his co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October 1996. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1995). Keesing's …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act which enforced registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting held in…
EventThe SA department of foreign affairs announces that the bodies of two South Africans have been found in Thailand
… It is estimated that 11 South Africans lost their lives during the devastating … & Guardian , [online], Available at mg.co.za [Accessed: 18 December 2014] …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… Town on 9 July, and the sides met again in Johannesburg on 11 July to close the series. Around this period the team … of the Decade,' in Kick Off 1994-2004,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Lindsay, Sir Kurma Reddi and G.S. Bajpai (Secretary). 12 January, The Second Round-table Conference between the … and its emphasis on the Scheme of Assisted…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda
… the signing of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in 2006. In this regard, we wish to pledge solidarity with your …
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… . Anant Singh Durban 11 February 2020 …
PlaceElandsfontein Private Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Discover Elandsfontein and their rich fossil heritage on a guided Quad Bike Fossil Safari or 4WD Nature Drive. The dunes on Elandsfontein are the final…
PlaceRobberg Nature Reserve
Robberg Nature Reserve, situated 8 km south of Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route, is not only a nature reserve, but also a National Monument. Rocks from this…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… Da Gama to return to India as viceroy. He reached Goa on 11 September 1524, but died at Cochin three months later. His …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… honorary doctorate by the University of South Africa. 1946 11 February, John Dube dies in Umhlanga, Natal. 1950 …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… assist them through their first year of administration. On 11 March 1854, Clark, together with staff and troops, left … rest of South Africa. The first…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded worldwide and …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… the UN denounced the Bantustan (homeland system). On 12 November 1974, the United Nations General Assembly …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S Open championships. For 12 years, Ashe was ranked among the world's top ten tennis …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Botha at Tuynhuys 1989 21 August, Harare Declaration 1989 12 September, First official meeting between exiled ANC …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand. Boksburg was an…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… of some diseases (2) 1977 1978 Cholera 0 4,967 Trachoma 12 1,109 Typhoid 2,624 3,913 Tuberculosis 45,298 51,828 … hospital beds in urban areas are…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… to the meeting. In view of the announcement on April 18 1985 by the racist regime in South Africa of the … and dedication to the cause of Namibia's…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter who had abandoned their first…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… as “an undesirable and outlandish element in South Africa”.12 They said this despite the fact that 95% of the Indian … if he was fired or if for some reason,…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… South African Government imposed banning orders, including 12-hour-a-day house arrest, on Mr. George Singh of the … African journalist wrote in the…
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… account. The Constitutional Assembly reconvened and on 11 October 1996 adopted an amended constitutional text (the … of KZN and the Constitutional Assembly…
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
1. Bill of Rights A. Right to Strike The right to strike should specifically include the right to defend and promote social and economic interests of workers…
PlaceElands Bay, Western Cape Province
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bobbejaan Mountain lies this hotspot for surfers around the world. Elands Bay is 95 km northwest of Piketberg and…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… to 1914. Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 12, pp. 508-18. The poem by Dayaram (1777-1853) at the end of the article … a theft. The police had…