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Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… of an era of hope and promises. The special abuses under apartheid laws which the Coloured community suffered - … Mixed Marriages in particular - are a thing…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… the Indian delegation at the United Nations. Working under difficult conditions, Mr. Choudree did a fine piece of … India, addressed huge public meetings…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… and Satisfactory Progress," Um-Afrika, 16 December 1944. Under the leadership of Mr. C. S. Ramohanoe the Transvaal … on the horizon. Congress leaders must be…
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
… Mac Pools. With a picturesque organised Picnic Site tucked under pine trees alongside the Mac Mac River. Named for the …
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… and most of the Indians refused to take out permits under the Black Act. Gandhiji found that "passive resistance" … for India. As the national movement…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… as the first Director General of the Department of health, under the Mandela Administration. [3] Dr Shisana became the …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… de Klerk ordered a stay on all scheduled executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was …
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… of periodic additions. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 31 August 1973.Ons Huisie, which …
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… dates from the 1850s. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 July 1982. …
PlaceNiewoudtville
… Five months later, on 25 November, Boer commandos under General JC Smuts returned to Nieuwoudtville where, by …
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… to the present day. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… 1901 respectively, and it was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 October 1980. The Grand Old …
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… bring to light the situations that Urban Africans lived under. She ventured more into politics when she co-founded …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… the era of outstanding literary and artistic developments under the Tudor dynasty, the house from which Elizabeth was …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… attacked the Bataung of Tolo in Winburg and the Kgolokwe under Witsie in the Harrismith District. In the battle of …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… and opponent of the apartheid regime. Fischer was arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act shortly after the …
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… too exhausted, had hurt his shoulder, and suffered a cut under his eye. Liston refused to continue the fight, leading …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… to the Transkei , a homeland proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… race should develop along its own lines. Consequently, under his leadership parliament ratified the Promotion of …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned …
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… South Africa, given the constant black media persecution under the apartheid regime. Qoboza served as a guest editor …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations mandate. In the years that …
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… a witness. The treaty was denounced by other Arab states. Under the agreement, Israel agreed to return the Sinai to …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… The South African government under leadership of Prime Minister John Vorster pledged …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… of the area has been contested, and the area has been under Dutch, British, German and South African control …
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… throughout the mining industry to mourn these deaths, under the supervision of NUM (National Union of Mineworkers). …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… four of the five ropes attached to the gallows snapped under the body weight of their prisoners. The men were still …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… out of a situation of racial exclusion and discrimination under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC aspired to unite …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister of Defence. It was under Botha's government that the Immigrants Regulation Act …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… fulfil the labour needs of mines. In 1906 a group of Zulus under leadership of Chief Bambatha refused to pay the tax. A …