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… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive … also decided to send a delegation to New York to assist in the preparation of the Indian case before the United … of the PRC's of Natal and Transvaal, had already arrived in New York to enlist support of the American people. …

… A 17 year-old Indian flower seller was fined R24 or 60 days in prison for breaking the municipal by-laws. The young man … moving after every 20 minutes, failing to keep his goods in a vehicle and for trading in a restricted area in … Too many wayward laws were passed in South Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality …

… Born in Port Elizabeth, Stanley Mabizela joined the liberation … A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did his primary education in Port Elizabeth where he also became politicised. After … who had been imprisoned by ANC. After the collapse of apartheid and first democratic elections which brought the …

… Announcement of a meeting in London on Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa on 7th July 1978. Speaker to be I B Tabata. … Meeting: Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa …

… Fifteen coffins were carried in a mass procession of over 30 000 people to the graveyard in the Springs township of KwaThema on July 23. … 30 000 in KwaThema funeral march …

… graduation ceremony of the Federal Theological Seminary in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg in 1977. … Christian ministry in a times of crisis …

… Article by the United Democratic Front in which the Front looks at the crisis facing the ruling party as a result of contradictions in South African capitalism. … The struggle in perspective: some ideas …

… Following a change of policy in the United States of America (USA), US Secretary of State … met African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo in Washington, D.C. … Tambo meets US representative in Washington …

… Black and white War on Want poster. Photograph of women in Zimbabwe working in the fields and small photograph of Angolan refugees. … War on Want in Southern Africa …

… Red, orange, black and grey poster. Words "Fight for us in your land for we in ours shall go on fighting for you and all people". Old … Fight for us in your land …

… For the first time in the history of the pulp and paper industrial council, … to refer the wage negotiations back to factory level in an attempt to break their deadlock with the unions. … Factory wage talks in paper industry …

… the seat of the South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir Herbert Baker in 1908 and the building process began in 1909. On 26 … as a location for political protests, particularly during apartheid. One of the most well-known marches on the Union …

… the seat of the South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir Herbert Baker in 1908 and the building process began in 1909. On 26 … as a location for political protests, particularly during apartheid. One of the most well-known marches on the Union …

… An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p …

… Veteran French war journalist Jean Helene is shot dead in cold blood in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast by a police officer. …

… Bheki Myeni, SA artist portraying his interest in insects in his sculpture, is born in Hlabisa, Natal. He is currently (1988) l …

… Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t …

… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres …

… Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia …

… The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 263. … Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action. …

… In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U …

… businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950. …

… Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t …

… physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight …

… African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France. …

… Stanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist who built an art gallery in Katlehong in 1982, is born in Newcastle, Natal. (Johannesburg Art …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid | https://www.sahistory.org.za/ … One-day general strike takes place in Port Elizabeth to protest police attacks in Kimberley and East London which resulted in t …

… Gerard Sekoto, SA artist is born in Botshabelo, Middelburg, Transvaal. He left SA for Paris in 1947. He died in 1993. …

… An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 1982 …