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EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed his royal throne in 1995. The car he was travelling in rolled … Britain in 1966. He was king of…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… day thirty years ago while in Security Police custody. His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in Deaths in Detention gives…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… editor of The World newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died on his fiftieth birthday in Johannesburg after having a heart … after the June 16 Uprisings in Soweto . At…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth varies substantially in various sources, from 1939 to 1942, Prince Mbusi Dube…
BiographyAnthony Holiday
… as a senior reporter on the Cape Times newspaper prior to his arrest, and had also been employed by the Rand Daily Mail …
BiographyWilliam Mtsologane
… West Province) on 6 June 1956. There is no evidence of his order of 6 June 1956 being revoked. …
BiographyMfoloe Ramokgadi
… District on 6 June 1956. There is no evidence of his order of 6 June 1956 being revoked. …
BiographyCoopoosamy Naidoo
… . He was sentenced to three months with hard labour. After his release, he was one of the pioneer settlers at Tolstoy …
BiographyAbel Mabe
… Vryburg District on 6 June 1956. There is no evidence that his order was 6 June 1956 revoked. …
BiographyJacob Mpemba
… exile in Basutoland [Lesotho] where they sought asylum. His order was withdrawn on 21 September 1967. …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
… out to take control over the Punjab region in India. From his base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Babur took control of the … [6] Babur military success is…
Islam
… in Arabic and a Muslim is a person who submits his life to the way and authority of Allah. This means that … a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca at least…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… hoping for the maximum sentence for the accused i.e. the death penalty. From the outset, the defence team informed … and had a photographic memory. He…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… At one of the events Chief Albert Luthuli publicly burns his pass. Oliver Tambo leaves South Africa illegally on the … to Tanganyika. August, Bram Fischer…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… camps. The abhorrent conditions in these camps caused the death of 4 177 women, 22 074 children under sixteen and 1 676 … Alfred Milner leaves Cape Town for…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… bush. Initially it was reported that she was attacked to death in the bush by a lion, but further details emerged that … with Jeevan Vasagar from the…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… Sunday the 02nd of October 2011. We at Bush Radio mourn his death. Professor McClain was originally from a small town in Indiana in the United States, and…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… tortured and murdered at the behest of Nieuwoudt. During his amnesty hearing in 1997, Nieuwoudt confessed his role in the 1985 murder of three anti-Apartheid…
BiographyHalton Cheadle
… 1972, when Hemson moved to Johannesburg, Cheadle took over his position as an organiser of the A-TWIU and TWIU. On 26 … in a two-semester ‘sabbatical’ at…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… 21 year-old Barend Strydom went on a killing spree with his pistol and attempted to shoot every Black person he … was a figment of Strydom’s imagination. He…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… apartheid government. Under the ban, he was restricted to his hometown King William’s Town and could not speak to the … and families. On 18 August 1977, he…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… were arrested in the 1960s and given long sentences or death severely crippling MK. The organisation’s early … MK operative Solomon Mahlangu is hanged in…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Congress (ANC) leaders in the Treason Trial of 1956 as his main motivation for joining the ANCYL and taking an … English, Xhosa, Latin, History, Mathematics…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of his people, a communist of world prominence; a dedicated and … Congress cannot…
BiographySelf Mampuru
… to 1939. He was unsuccessful in organising cooperatives on his return to South Africa. In 1943, critical of the inaction …
BiographyJulius C. Malie
… He began his education in Basutoland, he later studied at Lovedale and …
BiographyTom Lebekoe
… Vryburg District on 6 June 1956. There is no evidence of his order of 6 June 1956 being revoked. …
BiographyDarius Segatle
… Province] until the end of 1960, when he was dismissed for his purported anti-state activities. He was accused of …
Political executions
… for execution) Boesman, Mangena Jeffrey, 35 1989/09/29 Death of informer school teacher in Sterkstroom, Eastern Cape … 40 1989/04/20 Addo Youth Congress (…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… and minister of the AMEC. He arrived in Cape Town with his American wife, Sarah, and established a church and … a leading figure in the church. He educated…