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EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… Correctional Services and Housing and Works Minister, General Magnus Malan, a former Minister of Defence who was …
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… Ali Shermarke was assassinated in a military Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took control of the country's …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… increases by the town council. The rent boycott was also a general protest against corrupt councillors and the unjust …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… including former police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Johan Coetzee, former hit-squad commander Eugene de …
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He stated that although …
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… pressure increased, and in October 1966 the General Assembly of the UN terminated the mandate and decided …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… protesters finally forced South African government under General Jan Christiaan Smuts to negotiate a compromise with …
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… designed by Charles Davidson Bell, who was the Surveyor General of the Cape Colony at the time. The stamps depicted …
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… highest attention by President Nelson Mandela who ordered General George Meiring to look into their grievances. …
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… area. Our archives are open to learners, academics and the general public for research purposes. It was declared a …
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… strongly opposed to the Native Representation Bill of General Hertzog , the joint session of Parliament and the … Bill which, as is boasted, is the better…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… of South Africa are attended to." A.B. XUMA President-General of the African National Congress Secretary-Organiser … of Africans no less than other peoples,…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… of South Africa are attended to." A. B. XUMA, President-General of the African National Congress Secretary - … of Africans no less than other peoples, the…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… when she took a position as a midwife at Johannesburg General Hospital. Her caring nature was not just put to use …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… In addition the NEA sought to promote “social morality and general welfare of the natives.” The association made …
English Settlement in South Africa
… a British fleet under Admiral Keith Elphinstone and Major General James Craig sailed into False Bay on 11 June 1775, …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… of socialism in a future South Africa. At its annual General Council conference held at Wilgespruit in 1981, the …
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… dividing Africa. The outcome of the conference was the General Act of the Berlin Conference. Prior to the …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… openly hostile to apartheid and white supremacist rule in general. SASO took its political message to High Schools. …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… them, as well as to promote and protect human rights in general. On 16 August 2012, democratic South Africa witnessed …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… to Cape Town from Johannesburg. Kotane is also voted in as General Secretary of the party. 1940 22 June 22, Kotane and …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… the founding conference and pledged their support for the general campaigns of the Congress Alliance. Among the African …
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… administered its West African colonies through a governor general at Dakar, Senegal, and governors in the individual … : He was succeeded by his Chief of…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… the command of Rear Admiral G.K. Elphinstone and Major-General James Craig, when they first occupied the Cape in 1795 . On 22 November of that year General…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… the final years of Dutch rule, was appointed Receiver-General and Treasurer, by the incoming British in 1795. In … to the Dutch, and Abraham de Mist was…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… New Year message expresses the spirit of the conference in general. This document therefore is not intended to give a … the Suppression of Communism Act as…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… South Africa. Apartheid in concrete form is not possible. General Smuts with his sharp political eye saw the new … course lay in keeping our organisation…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… 36 (17%) in urban areas. In 1964 Volkskas, together with General Mining and Finance Corporation Ltd, went into sugar … production in the Eastern Transvaal…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and structures of governance were set in place, laws or general rules regulating ‘native’ land ownership were … for exceptions, which had to be approval of…