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Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… upon the government to convene a National Convention, before 31 May this year, of all South Africans, to draw up a … If the government failed to call the…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… Minister of the Interior laid the Cape Town Agreement before the Parliament, he declared that the agreement was not … case of discrimination in South Africa…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… the Altamira paintings, which were thought to be forgeries before his analysis of them. …
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… in Orlando East. He got a job at a clothing factory and before long, managed to buy himself a car. He operated the …
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… Coetzee himself was the first commander of the unit before he left the police force. In 1989, Coetzee exposed the …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… prisoners passed though its prison doors while others died before their release. After undergoing scrutiny by political …
EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
… has already reached all corners of the globe. Six weeks before the big race that awaited him, Abebe was taken ill …
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… 45 years. He worked as a photographer for the Daily News, before moving on to become pictures editor for the Daily News …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… became active member of the South African Communist Party before it was banned in 1951. Later in 1946 he took African …
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… a drug den party at the edge of the forest the night before she disappeared. News about Rosalind's disappearance …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… assembly and an interim government of national unity before the end of the year. They also demand the …
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… poured petrol over him and placed a tyre around his body before setting him alight. Despite the fact that the murder …
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… Minister, Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark Thatcher. The day before, on 7 March, Zimbabwean authorities seized a …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… Steve Mabona and David Mabuza, all of whom had lied before, only to retract their statements later. The matter …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… as ambassador to the United Kingdom and later Transkei before he retired in 1986. …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… extremists, while others had been moved to Israel before the 1994 general election. President Nelson Mandela …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… of thirty-two. He wrote Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica eight years before his death, at the age of twenty four. There were …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… Republic Peace Commission to either accept or reject it before 31 May midnight. After the peace proposal was …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence. Appearing before the TRC, he admitted to knowing about police …
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… She lived in the US and in several African countries before she returned to South Africa in 1990. She has won …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… who had committed offences with a political motive on or before 8 October 1990 shall be carried out in stages. …
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… He died in John Vorster Square police station just 12 days before the release of former president Nelson Mandela . At …
PlaceRhodes
… returned to Rhodes and remained in occupation for two days before moving on. …
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… in Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried by Court Martial immediately after the close of hostilities. 5. …
ArchiveFederation
… in Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried by Court Martial immediately after the close of hostilities. 5. …
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court 8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India 9. …
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… on 30 July 1813 work began on a prison, and houses for the court messenger and the police constable. The new village …
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… to light coincided with legal inquiries instituted – by court order – into the fate of photographic heritage … – many of the images in question never shown…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… border. Undoubtedly many disabilities were placed upon us before the war. We often found our position unbearable, but … Justice of the Orange Free State…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… border. Undoubtedly many disabilities were placed upon us before the war. We often found our position unbearable, but … Justice of the Orange Free State…