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EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… and common law prisoners in the 1960s. Over the course of time, several hundred political prisoners passed though its …
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… independence from Britain on 9 December 1961. At the time Nyerere was a Prime Minister after winning the August …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… the party. Like other prominent political leaders of the time Kotane was harassed by the Apartheid government agencies …
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… sentenced to death, an equivalent of death penalty at the time, the organisation was totally opposed to the death …
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… Union of Mineworkers (NUM), led by Cyril Ramaphosa. At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… an eleven week rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the South African Police threw teargas at the crowd. …
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… international start. Habana was voted for the second time Player of the Year at the annual SA Rugby Awards Banquet …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… polls on 27 April 1994. His announcement came at the time when the party experiencing difficulty due to infighting …
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… gorilla, with whom he was sharing a special moment at the time. He grabbed the man, who shot him three times. The …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… with the National Party (NP) participating for the first time. The main point at issue was whether South Africa should …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… clothe and shelter women and children. Due to limited time and resources, she did not visit the camps for Blacks, …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… a book titled: “We were there”, a documentation of his time in South Africa’s war on the Namibian/Angola border. …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… into the South African Sports Hall of Fame. At the time of his death in 2009, he had published 14 books. He is …
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a full-time artist. He travelled to London where met former British …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… a feminist whose world views were very advanced for her time. Her books though written over a century ago, seem to …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… raid by police searching for illicit liquor. This was at a time when the policemen would attempt to forcefully remove …
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ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… ideas about race as developed by social scientists at that time. They would take some of these natives, sometimes … inferiors, while it treated whites as…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… he is interviewed for television for the first, and last time for nearly thirty years, and he announced that the ANC … his first visit to prison and saw his…
Liberation organisations
… size and sophistication over a relatively short period of time. Employment practices and wider political trends were … granted some freedom to organise…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… in the return to power of the National Party for the sixth time since 1948, but with a reduced majority. There is an … the government’s apartheid policy. 13…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… England, he returned to South Africa in 1918, during the time of the devastating influenza epidemic and opened his … Convention. His key contribution to the…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an investigative journalist … of Almond Nofomela and Dirk Coetzee and for…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… is possible to be all of these and much more. At the same time being a person of a particular race or class also … important exchange of human values over a…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… wages earned by men in the manufacturing industry at the time. Despite these "high" earnings, brewing beer was a … flood of conscience swept over me. They…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… be detained only for the shortest appropriate period of time, and has the right to be - kept separately from detained … meet the right. The programme in…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… bootstrings. He is alienated”¦He is made to live all the time concerned with matters of existence, concerned with … and incapable of intellectual production…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… CWP and Head of State, Marien N'Gouabi. This is the first time that the South African Communist Party has been invited … leader that the Indian community has…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… the Middle East in 1917 for a few weeks' leave, the first time he had been home for over three years. Then he was off … to France and Belgium until the end…