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EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… via Lesotho and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven times under the apartheid government's publication laws and …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… visit the prison on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… children. During this time, an action committee was set up under auspices of the South African Student Movement (SASM), …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… Timol became the seventeenth person to die in detention under security laws. He was a member of the banned South …
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to the …
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… legal fiction of "separate but equal" public facilities. Under F.W. De Klerk, the National party dismantled the entire …
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… drive to expand their membership to areas formally not under their control. However, the position of the IFP was …
EventPiet Retief, Voortrekker leader, is born
… on the vineyard, Welvanpas, in what became the Cape Colony under British rule. At the age of 27 he left for …
EventWorld Aids Day
… The first World Aids Day was observed on 1 December 1988 under the theme 'Join the Worldwide Effort'. In South Africa, …
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… her. As result of the report, a presidential commission under chairmanship of Judge Hefer was instituted to establish …
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… in France the following year. The South African team was under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed soccer coach …
EventThe Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
… remained secret. In 1993, the Afrikaner Broederbond, under its new name,Afrikanerbond made a resolution to end the …
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… of the Imperial White Horse warned the king that, under martial law, he was obliged to follow orders or face …
EventBritain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty
… Zululand was divided into thirteen separate chiefdoms under a chief elected by the British who was complaint to …
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… of Inquiry into the mass media, appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tabled its …
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… to the changing political circumstances in South Africa. Under the leadership of AWB leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche, the …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… of Pretoria he was selected to play for the South African under-20 rugby team. At the age of 22 he played his first …
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart under siege The child raises his fists against his father …
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
… Dinizulu’s relatives from the Zulu Royal House put him under the protection of their Boer allies in the border …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… Congress (PAC) and other liberation movements were banned under Unlawful Organisations Act in April 1960. The South …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… housing in the township. She was detained for five months under the Prevention of Terrorism Act following these …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… comments in Cornish. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 December 1983. The original …
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… features in 1902, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 3 August 1984. …
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… Horse Stone thereon. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 October 1982. DO NOT WALK ON …
9. In search of better employment
… me (thy humble servant) if any vacancy should occur under your honour's superintendence. I enclose my certificate …
PlaceTunisia
… a succession of Islamic dynasties and empires until coming under French colonial rule in the late 19th Century. After … social agenda and sought to modernize…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… in 1984, was taken into detention and held for five months under section 10 of the Internal Security Act in Modderbee … Movement, and was arrested in August…
Chapter 13
… they constitute a body of migrant labourers recruited under contract for the mines. They are herded in the mine … the African people as a whole to boycott…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… by the advocate for the defence. He then gave evidence under oath in mitigation of the sentences of this group of … of Africa, not even the off-shore islands…
Apartheid power in crisis
… of the masses of South Africa after 4 years of oppression under Emergency rule. The success of the hunger strike … of 1989 • Days of Defiance (September…