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EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… of Casper Kruger, was born in Whittlesea, Eastern Cape on his grandfather's farm. In 1842 he married Maria du Plessis … as well as the Krugerrand coin was…
EventUN Secretary General is killed in a plane crash
… Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjold was on his way to meet with President Moise Tshombe of Katanga … from a landing, apparently on Mr Hammarskjold's…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe refuses to end the Katanga secession
… the independence of Congo in June 1960 from Belgium. In his announcement on Katanga's secession from Congo Tshombe … and Tshombe was taken to Algeria where…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… the Rev. Desmond Tutu announces that he is giving up his current post to become Secretary-General of the South … African is issued with a certificate of…
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… Cultural Activities Tributes to Lembede After His Death Note Bibliography …
Madiba The African Opera
… be a great conduit for the story he wanted to tell about his family. It was Mtirara’s Great Grandfather, King … of raising the 9 year old Nelson Mandela…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… Lungi came to South Africa and settled in Soweto with his grandmothers, Greta Ncapayi and Albertina Sisulu. As a result of political activism in his family,…
Chapter III - The world outside
… on individuals, black and white, leading to injuries and death, sometimes in a kind of mindless violence. In 1963, the … detention, Babla, so often bubbling…
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels, where his dramatic appearance stole the show from other Congolese … from Belgium in June 1960, a series of…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… gunshot. According to reports Kabila was shot by one of his bodyguards in front of army generals, following a dispute … not a coup attempt, but an argument…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled …
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. …
EventKing Hassan II of Morocco dies
… the age of 70 at the Avicenne hospital in Rabat. Hassan's death was announced by his son and successor Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed on national …
VI - The Inquest
… be instituted in the Steve Biko affair. Two months after his death the inquest on Steve Biko began on 14 November in the … Act and the decision in the case…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… General Jan Christian Smuts started his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… for organising a general strike. He was already serving his sentence in Robben Island prison , yet here he was with … was certainly pleased to meet them…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… General Secretary of the Communist Party in Israel on his birthday, a letter sent to the Saudi Arabian authorities regarding the death penalty and SACP…
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in Moscow. The date of his death varies in different sources. It is given as 17 January …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… with 'racial purity' and used the word 'Aryan' to describe his idea of a 'pure German race' or Herrenvolk. The 'Aryan … Jews. Hitler gave the following…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bakoteli lineage, forms his own clan. 1822 Basutoland founded by King Moshoeshoe I, … the Butha-Buthe Mountain, and…
BiographyManasseh Tebatso Moerane
… joined the African National Congress (ANC), of which his father had also been a member. Several years later, he …
BiographyHargreaves Nkosana Mbodla
… Cape [now North West Province]. Documentation related to his banishment described Mbodla as an Evangelist at the …
BiographyPhikinkani Zulu
… were issued on 11 December 1959 for Phikinkani Zulu and his cousin Nelson Zulu. Documentation related to their …
BiographyRebecca Bunting
… but a minority report was sent by Douglas Wolton and his wife, their idea supported by James La Guma – in favour …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in … when he was murdered. The escalating…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… Zuma is released from Robben Island after serving his sentence. Zuma marries Sizakele Khumalo. 1974 Zuma … in Johannesburg and at Inkandla, including offices…
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… was 14 when he was killed. Doctor Asvat was shot dead in his Soweto clinic. The SCA earlier dismissed Winnie … She challenged Madiba’s decision to leave the…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… the Netherlands, to Willem Johannes Verwoerd and his wife, Anje Strik. Driven by a strong sympathy for the … and prime minister on 2 September 1958,…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… in the making of a film for overseas about it. These were his crimes. They were enough for him to be placed under house … and banned for five years. On the…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… This state unfortunately did not last very long as his own party rejected him as leader. Many people, both Black … truly good-hearted person trying to serve…