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EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… went into exile. The prison break came roughly two months before the infamous Rivonia Trial was due to begin in …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… government warned that those who did not return to school before the deadline of 25 April would be expelled. This …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… The record of the hearing on the death of Griffiths Mxenge before the Amnesty Committee of the TRC contains the …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… one specific project, namely the funding of The Citizen, before he came into power in September 1978. Source: Kalley, …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… supporting an interim government leading to independence. Before the apparent impasse arose over the Waldheim plan for …
EventEgyptian and Israeli forces in fierce fights
… raced south, intent on cutting off the Egyptian third Army before it could retreat west back into Egypt. The war also …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… critical of his nine months of administration preparation before elections could be held. The Democratic Party (DP), …
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… that it dismantle its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, before a full transitional government was in place …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… After various submissions by victims of the attack before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… on the matter humiliated the Lesotho government before the international community. Furthermore, the …
EventKhotso House is bombed
… Order Adriaan Vlok to bomb the house. Vlok, who appeared before the TRC two years later, testified that he had …
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… 22 former members of the former security police appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to apply …
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… Although there were already some Muslims at the Cape before the arrival of Yusuf, he is regarded as the founder of …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… up by a group of members of the Free Church of Scotland. Before the missionaries arrived, the area was controlled by …
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… between the Government and the Press had been sour long before the appointment of the Commission of Inquiry. …
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… together with 14 other former security policeman appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Amnesty …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… had flown over South Africa since 31 May 1928 until just before midnight on 26 April 1994.The national flag first flew …
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
… during these months, and not be carried away like chaff before the wind, Nor hold a candle to our shame and sorrow, … the legitimate enjoyment of political…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… With Truth 22 . I had read this book many times before, but inside the prison walls the words came to have a … I was sent to Pietermaritzburg gaol. Thirty…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… during these months, and not be carried away like chaff before the wind, Nor hold a candle to our shame and sorrow, … the legitimate enjoyment of political…
"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South Afri­can Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… during these months, and not be carried away like chaff before the wind, Nor hold a candle to our shame and sorrow, … the legitimate enjoyment of political…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… It was agreed that the constitution needed work done before it was formally adopted. • Louise Williams was … Town to cover the launch of the UDF. Jimi…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… a post-apartheid federal system was explored. Coming just before the political manoeuvres in the late 1980s and the … , ANC stalwart, Zulu, Christian, family…
PlaceBaviaanskloof Region and Pass, Eastern Cape
… at the start of the Gorge. The last stop, so to speak, before entering the wilderness of the Baviaanskloof. A single … Bossies and Fynbos . "The best time to…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thenjiwe Mswane
… you hadn’t died that day, or the days after, or the days before. I wish you’d have stayed to whisper words of wisdom … basendulo? I am a tired black womxn,…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… first half of the 19th century and all of them died long before St. Peter's Church (Anglican) was built in 1879-80 in the Village of Formosa. All but two in…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… of an Oppressive System. Kruger died nearly half a Century before Apartheid was implemented, though people of colour … Commemorating South Africa's past have…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… you have helped bring our people together as never before. I also want to pay tribute to Orlando Pirates … in support of the African Cup of Nations…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… the Independent Labour Party joined. (The I.L.P. blew up before achieving an organ or even a constitution.) As a … the opinion of some of the comrades it was…
Document 15 - “Ruth First , “Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle”, The Guardian , 23 December 1948
… the Convention delegation placed a "unity resolution" before the session. 'In view of the political crisis facing … not be achieved overnight. Congress…