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EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… singer Pauline Malefane, accepted the award in Xhosa before bursting into song at request of the film's director, …
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… from the Active Citizen Force of the Defence Force before joining General Beyers in protest against the …
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… was seriously ill with cancer, was released a few weeks before his death on 8 May 1975. Founded in 1951, Drum …
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… Africa's threat of a blockade against that country. A year before they were deported, Lesotho refused to sign a non …
EventSA actress, Ashley Callie dies
… Film and Television Award (SAFTA) for best actress shortly before she died. She was posthumously awarded the Mzansi Star …
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before settling in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He is one of five …
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… died. Born in Pretoria in 1911, Ngoyi worked as a nurse before she became an activist. She joined the African …
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… her index fingers around each other and leaning sideways before every jump. After the 2004 Olympics, Cloete retired …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… by the European colonial powers that had started two years before. He pointed out the contrast between the empires … trial, which started in 1956, dragged on…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… the next session would begin in March 1992. Two months before CODESA 2, the five working groups began their … Rights and a legal system that guarantees…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… First the battalion needed medical attention and rest. Before sending men home for a period of recuperative leave … fresh training in gunnery, signalling,…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… were also treated unequal to a Dutch settler in the court of law based on a racial hierarchy which promoted the …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… of taking the time-consuming path of having them tried in court, it was thought to be much more convenient and …
Message by Albert Luthuli to the Seventh Provincial Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, 5 February 1954, Durban
… fight against forces of oppression in our land. The way before us may be long and dusty, but ultimate success must be … National Congress leadership is…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… professional career as a bench warmer at Mamelodi Sundowns before he found his scoring boots with the then mighty … Oom Hansie didn’t last long. He was a…
PlaceGardens, Cape Town
… Kloof Nek has been an important pass for centuries. Long before roads were built, it was used by Khoi herders, farmers … Walking them today is to follow the…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… was granted a further 36 morgen in 1812. In 1837, not long before he died, the entire property was sold to Mezst van der Spuy Meyburgh, who probably built…
PlaceThe Gallows Museum Exhibition
… prisoners were told that they had seven days left to live before they would be hung. The executions were usually on a Friday, at 6:00 in the morning. But…
Chapter X - Final word
… the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the bans were due to expire I was invited to open a … of the Freedom Charter and to live by…
Comrade Keith Khoza`s father being buried on Saturday, 3 February 2011
… with a short service at the Khoza family home in Nquthu before burial. Issued by: Jackson Mthembu National …
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… recollection of the Coloured community of the area before the Group Areas Act was put into place in the 1950’s. …
EventThe battle of Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) marks the continuation of the South African War
… at Lindley. The war continued for another two years before a treaty was signed in Vereeniging in 1902, paving the …
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… involvement in the murky world of arms dealing began long before the UN arms and oil embargo on South Africa. According …
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… achievement. Kristiansens's record stood for 15 years before Budd broke it. The event took place without any …
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Mxenge. In 1996, Coetzee had to appear again, this time before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. …
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
… Park. Witnesses saw the four men lock the bucks in a camp before beating them to death with sticks and pipes after …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… time in jail to write. He later went to exile in England before returning to his father’s native country Cuba, where …
EventStephen Appiah, retired Ghanaian footballer is born
… Brescia Calcio and Juventus. The last team he played for before retiring was Serbian team Vojvodina. …
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… PAC. Mandela spent seven months at Pretoria Central Prison before he was transferred to Robben Island. …
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… was dynamited by its crew under Lieutenant H Du Toit before falling into British hands at Bergplaas, 46 kilometres …