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EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… have been incorporated into the Northern Cape Province. Before 1994 a pro ANC faction in the homeland, led by …
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
… authority which I am sending you, so you show that letter before you get your passage ticket. When you land in Natal we …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… with the government. It was to be several years before the dissatisfaction in Pondoland died down. Source: 1. …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… marched and chanted slogans towards the magistrates court where their comrades were being tried. When the police attempted to keep them off the steps of the…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… falsehoods and distortions by the press, immediately before and during the strike, the freedom loving people of … that if the government did not call a…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… become a member of the banned Communist Party some time before being imprisoned. I do not think we knew, at that … orders until recently, was the keynote…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… mountain. William had no practical engineering experience before tackling construction of the 228-m tunnel through the … it was repaired. On each occasion it…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
… task. My best guess is that it will be three to four weeks before any firm request will be put to the South African … you are able. I continue to believe, as…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… that we use one he took in 1957 of a makeshift, “Bantu Court” in Mathubathuba. If ever there was a photograph which …
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… my right to speak”. An extract from Cesar van Madagascar's court testimony. The underlined words say "mijn recht van …
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… the mediation of information disclosure disputes. The High court will hear appeals regarding the interpretation of the …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… law the noble vision that had issued from here 41 years before, in 1955. Determined to ensure that all our people … pleas. Olive Schreiner was born in 1855,…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… of their birth. Today our people are suffering as never before under this Nationalist Government of Dr. Malan with … April 6! MAKE SOUTH AFRICA FREE!…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… time has come for apartheid to go? Have we not heard this before? P.W. Botha promised "power-sharing", and now he is … out having orchestrated…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… time has come for apartheid to go? Have we not heard this before? P.W. Botha promised "power-sharing", and now he is … out having orchestrated…
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… This Act confirms the position that was believed to obtain before the Searle judgment. Prior to that judgment, we had … such appointments since these…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… company of his lawyer. He was detained and later brought before the magistrate at Durban on three occasions on a … questions on an incident which had…
PlaceFouriesburg
… was President Steyn and some of his government. The appeal court and some of the personnel, as well as the wife of the …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… to Pollsmoor prison and then Victor Verster prison before he was released in 1990. Mandela was elected president …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… As he was on the point of going to London to plead a case before the Privy Council, he requested permission and was …
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… The position of Indians in South Africa was brought before the General Assembly of the United Nations, both by …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) before he was expelled from the organisation during the …
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… a Saturday night and was completed the next morning just before 6 a.m. when the new heart in the chest of Louis …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… stations reacted by requesting the ISU to report to them before it carried out its operations and after it had …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… Bay" was visited occasionally by sealers and whalers before being established as a commercial port. In 1506, the …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… of smoke and gas until they found the eighteenth man just before dawn, fatally injured. Another corpse was found later, …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… Congress, of whose armed wing Mr Mdluli was the commander before joining the NIA, as well as Mdluli’s own family, …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… hut and dog taxes. After the Second Anglo-Boer War and before the unification of South Africa mining companies …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… guns. Lobengula fled after the defeat at Bembesi but not before deciding to burn his capital Bulawayo to the ground …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… crises situations were usually able to defuse tensions before they escalated. The Langa township at Uitenhage is not …