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O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… in Zimbabwe? TAMBO : South African involvement in Zimbabwe dates back to the early days of Ian Smith's regime and the …
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… back in time, Windybrow started as a large family Home. It dates from the late Victorian Years, first Occupied in the …
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… In its report to the Annual Conference of December 17-18, 1955, the ANC National Executive Committee remarked that … than 100,000 signatures at the Prime…
PlaceLichtenburg, North West
… discovered a diamond on his Family Farm and within 12 months there were 108,000 fortune seekers on the scene. …
EventDeath in detention of Ahmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born on the 3rd November 1941 in Breyten in current-day Mpumalanga. He grew up in Roodepoort and trained as a teacher. In 1964 he attended the…
Event5 bodies found: Kempton park killings
… was found near Rhodesfield in Kempton Park On September 12, the body of a 38-year-old woman was found in Rhodesfield, …
Apartheid power in crisis
… unbanned. The anniversary meeting was banned and on Friday 18 August, Mohammed Valli Moosa, the acting general secretary … There were no incidents reported…
PlaceBeau Constantia, a Cape Town- Wine Estate
… farm manager, Japie Bronn, they planted vineyards over 11.47 hectares of the farm. Until May 2016 the wine bar at …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon's previous 'Jesus' comments
… Dickie Loader (9; Sea of Heartbreak), Des Lindberg (11; Die Gezoem van die Bye), A-Cads (17; Hungry for Love), …
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' …
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… settlement was reached in 1911. But in the letter of 12 September 1913 reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman … invalid. Source: Collected Works of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1652 - 1699 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… and Carepane], two slave girls [Mu'minah and Na'imah], 12 children, 12 imams [religious leaders] and several friends with their …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… of the crimes. Rosa Parks dies at the age of 92. 2006: Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader … on who could vote in elections. Literacy…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… and to re-detain them after this period had expired. 11 Through the use of these powers, the entire leadership of … as the only effective political…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… decisions by a sixty-six and two-thirds percent majority. 11. In South African regional differences have been fostered … list, both on the basis of…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
The Alliance Political Council, comprising of the National Officials of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… February 1970. Volume 5. No. 1 The Leader. 1 April 1944. 12 December 1969, 30 January 1970 The Graphic. 15 July 1966, …
PlaceZambia
… by 35% of the population), Nyanja or Chewa (20%), Tonga (12%) and Lozi (6%). An urban variety of Nyanja (Chewa) is the …
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of … the fact that his impoverished family could have…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… struggle for freedom. Her child was Hector Pieterson. As a 12-year-old victim of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Hector …
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 December 1975. Diagonally opposite - in West Street, …
PlaceOld Presidency
… asked to simplify their design, it still amounted to £12, 200. With some reluctance, this was accepted. The …
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
Extract: 'Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the…
PlaceGriqualand West
… a Bill of Annexation , although it was only implemented on 18 October 1880. A census taken in Griqualand West in 1877 … that the Province had a total of 44…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
The reserve features the "Big Five" animals that is so popular with tourists: lions, hippos, rhino, elephants and buffalo.Among Southern Africa’s fascinating…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… holiday – “Reconciliation Day”. Wolfram Kistner [1923-2006] gives a historical account * : The annual … its privileges in a separate building or…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… Bill Parry ( https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/oct/13/guardianobituaries.obituaries ). Parry left the …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… government figures, the number of Mau Mau killed was 11,503, but there is little doubt that the true number was … in Kenya’ Transafrican Journal of History…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… permission had been granted. It was repealed by section 11 of the Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, Act No 95 of … the target of the Defiance Campaign…