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EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… mental institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his actions on a tapeworm in his stomach. This led to him … challenging the…
BiographyRay E. Phillips
… He wrote two major books. The Bantu Are Coming (1930), his Yale University doctoral dissertation, and The Bantu in …
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
… Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a …
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… Swift as an air-slicing pestle, he was not re-captured but his land had already slipped into Dutch hands. Robbed of … her husband, the respected Posthouder…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… leaders, but still the mass action raged. By 9 April the death toll had risen to 83 non-White civilians and three … any misgivings regarding government…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… activities, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head, near to Community centre in Moletsane township, … Mr Lengane was murdered after being kidnapped…
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… as provincial superior for the Jesuits, before he began his work in southern Africa. He first arrived at Sofala … and proceeded to Otongwe near Cape…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the recently formed United … a self admitted 'warlord' terrorising the…
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… the notorious former police officer Gideon Nieuwoudt, for his role in the death of Steve Biko in 1977. In a seven page decision of the … had failed to…
BiographyTerry Bell
… Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara, in 1966 and together they have two … Kenneth Kaunda appealed for asylum…
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… of former president Nelson Mandela . At the time of his arrest, Sithole was in a relationship with Zindzi … her son, who was less than a year old at the time…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… believed that the surviving security police, who detained his brother in 1971, now had a second chance to tell the truth about his mysterious death. "We will…
BiographyMpiyeza Mlaba
… Mlaba supported Mzwangedwa Mlaba’s campaign to be chief of his community, in the Camperdown District, Natal [now …
BiographyCharlie Mlaba
… supported Mzwangedwa Mlaba’s campaign to be the chief of his community, in the Camperdown District, Natal [now …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… he renounced the armed struggle and agreed to return to his hometown of Qunu. Mandela responded by rejecting the offer for his conditional release in a…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed acts of arson, but claimed that he had acted at all times on the…
The appointment of Judges
… , raised the question of the constitutionality of the death penalty For three days the judges heard arguments. The … of the case, in which Makwanyane had…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… South Africans to have had unique access to Mandela during his incarceration on Robben Island . It has been said of Jana …
BiographyRica Hodgson
… at home. Hodgson volunteered and joined her son, Spencer, his wife Claudia and their daughter, Tanya, in the …
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… Prophet Muhammad migrated from Makkah to Madinah, one of his first acts was to locate a suitable site for a mosque. … in August 1887 at the age of 35 while…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… president, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, was assassinated by his own presidential guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, … the international airport. He was…
BiographyMangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa
… was placed under house arrest, from 6pm to 6am, at his Mabopane East, Pretoria home. He was detained under the …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… its parent organisation to more radical positions. Due to his meteoric rise in the African National Congress (ANC) … frustrated the efforts of the secret…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… but in most cases, this meant an employee going along with his employer. On the Boer side, Black people assisted at … and spare rifles and even load up the…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… on an anti-pass campaign on Monday the 21st. According to his "Testimony about the Launch of the Campaign," Sobukwe … to us. And we have sworn that we are…
BiographyProfessor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
… settled in South Africa, where he was popularly known for his role in commercials for a cellphone company in the …
BiographyFoko Mbata
… the chief to resign so that Foko Mbata could take up his place, since they had conquered the area, and that no …
BiographyFoko Mbata
… the chief to resign so that Foko Mbata could take up his place, since they had conquered the area, and that no …
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… the name of Algoa Bay to Port Elizabeth in memory of his deceased wife, Lady Elizabeth Donkin, who had died at Murat, in Upper Hindustan, on 21 August 1818,…
XI - The Verdict
… in which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death of Biko: Van Lieres: The real inquiry at this inquest … neither doctors nor police could have…