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EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… large percentage of those who died in detention did so under mysterious circumstances. Source: South African History …
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… as an Afrikaans nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence …
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… Dr Treurnicht and Langley gained their respective seats under the banner of the National Party. One possible outcome …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… this was that South West Africa had been a German Colony. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany as a …
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… that the confessions were false and had been extracted under torture. Sipiwe Bholo and Sipho Gavin were sentenced to …
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… Andries Beyers of the Afrikaner Volksunie. The key issue under discussion was the way they were being treated at the …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… sought to cling to the privileges afforded to them under Apartheid. The legal framework in question, consisting …
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
… underground cell Williams and Waterwitch were part of was under surveillance and some sources speculate had already …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… The attack was executed by Heinrich Grosskopf, under the instructions of the African National Congress …
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… Sehlwana who was appointed to meet the group at the border under the pretext of being a taxi driver, stopped at the …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… of short stories. The exact date of her death is under dispute, as some sources claim it was the 26 April …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry Brigade under Major-General H.T. Lukin was ordered to clear the wood …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… C.F Beyers as chairman. The discussions were recorded under the supervision of two secretaries for the republics …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… Commandant Eloff was sent to put the town of Mafikeng under siege. Eloff instructed General Piet Cronje to lead …
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… and gunpowder. However, it was alleged that this happened under pressure from the Whites and Kausob's relative Decoie …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… The government purchased a farm, Somerset Farm, which was under the supervision of Dr MacKrill. Somerset Farm provided …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… During the proceedings, Robert Resha resumed his evidence under cross examination by Mr. J. Trengove, for the Crown. He …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… qualify for the finals, finishing third in the qualifiers. Under Coach Clive Barker, they soon proved to be quite a …
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… km South-East of Pretoria, the Country's Capital. It falls under the Umvoti Local Municipality Administration. In this …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… of attention during the Anglo Boer War. After it it fell under siege from October 1899 to March 1900. Set on the banks …
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… to intensify the struggle exactly in these areas that are under martial law. In struggle, we must make it impossible … its forces on certain areas of our…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… to intensify the struggle exactly in these areas that are under martial law. In struggle, we must make it impossible … its forces on certain areas of our…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… South African Party, aided by the Native reformists and under the cloak of hypocritical liberal phrases is to furnish … the "Labour" Party. 3. The Native…
PlaceTranskei
… Act of 1894 saw the establishment of district councils under the leadership of chiefs. The idea of using chiefs as … policy of the apartheid government,…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… settled in the country, and those who might be allowed under a general immigration law to enter the Colony, were … addition to the burden the Indians are…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Robert McBride to two years imprisonment for driving under the influence of alcohol and an effective three years … Palestine is willing and able to carry out…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… children for the lower echelons of the labour market. Under the new system, education would be transferred to the … saying: “The more I think about the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Source-based Questions
… in the First World War led to significant dissatisfaction under the Russian population. These defeats also led to a …
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… against us, and the difficult and dangerous conditions under which we worked, the results were most inspiring. I am … when thousands of our people are sent…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… uprisings. It was smuggled out of Robben Island prison under very difficult conditions and has taken over two years … They are a generation whose whole…