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PlaceComoros
… For International Women’s Day tomorrow, wear Purple, Green or White in solidarity with our women in all of the Virgin …
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… developments have taken place. No doubt you are more or less conversant with the outstanding events which you …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… The activists were all officers of either the SASO or the Black People's Convention (BPC), organisations known …
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… having his death reported as resulting from his wounds, or facing trial by the People's Court. He chose suicide, …
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… whether the doctors involved were guilty of disgraceful or unprofessional conduct. It did, however, made some …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… troupe and their FNLA allies were no match in material or training to the Soviet and Cuban soldiers and they were … [Accessed 21 June 2010]| ' Mercenaries:…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… in South Africa and labelled as terrorists, communists or perceived by the apartheid government as a threat to …
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… attacks by ANC supporters on anyone with any Zulu or IFP connections led to the decision to plan a counter …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… rituals and that their bodies had been burnt with acid, or that they had been taken to the Middle East. He has also …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… Swaziland. The Commission found that Dweba was killed by, or on orders of, unknown security forces members, and that …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… Christmas in 1497, and thus named the area Terra do Natal, or Christmas Country in Portuguese. It was not until 1824, …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… interior. They could move North beyond the Orange River or North-East towards Natal. Louis Trichardt led a group of …
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… lives of at least 14 people and leaving hundreds injured or homeless. The first reported tornado struck without …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… mines are mine explosives designed to injure personnel or people rather than equipment. In the 1990s South Africa … Phillip), pp.136-137| Anon," Convention…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
Jack Penn, a well known plastic and reconstructive surgeon, was born on 14 August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to Johannesburg, where he…
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… the inn became known as "Tunbridge's", The Sundays River or Nukakamma (Afrikaans: Sondagsrivier) is a river in the …
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… entirely changed from what it was doing a few years ago, or it must be ignorant of what its Magistrates are doing. We …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… people were imprisoned for political offences at one time or another during his rule. By 1992, Banda's grip had begun …
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… is a decorative carving of Crossed Swords, and a Ribbon or Drapery is Carved above the other. The inscriptions on the …
PlacePampierstad
… Pampierstad (now Thuso a Sotho or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in …
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… windows, and then watch the sea life under a microscope, or visit the Touch Pool to get up close and personal with …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… civil rights. You can have civil rights in this country, or in the United States, because the constitution caters for … to perpetuate itself through the…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… civil rights. You can have civil rights in this country, or in the United States, because the constitution caters for … to perpetuate itself through the…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… subjects had either recently been to the United States or had had sexual contact with other homosexuals who had … being said that we now have the highest…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… but the overwhelming majority of all South Africans, black or white or whatever their color might be, want the country to … brought people to accuse me…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… are present: - A disillusionment with constitutional or semi-constitutional forms of struggle and a conviction … of 30 based on our present resources whether…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
… Development is not about helping a few people get rich or creating a handful of pointless protected industries that … is not about bringing in Prada and…
Restrictions on the media
… as follows: An electronic media (radio and TV) owned or controlled through licensing by the government. A … was either conservative (the Afrikaans-language…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… say whether all the existing licences are to be respected or not. The Transvaal Colonial Secretary's attempt to amend … is the one strong man in South Africa…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… but could do it more effectively without scissors or hatpins. On another occasion I received an urgent 'phone … They had every right to display the Union…