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ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… potentially explosive matter for us. Going back a bit in time: Hillary Kuny told me she wanted to submit a memorandum … from Johannesburg to Pretoria for…
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… workers was really marvellous. They not only gave their time, but those that were able came forward with their … laid-out roads, the journey to the Buttery…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… The building was opened in 1862 and in its time was the first teaching hospital in South Africa. It was …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… note when she sees one, The Cape Town Club having had its time there, and gracefully survived a serious blaze just …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the time, was received at the City Hall after a traditional …
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… in the Victorian Gothic style, has been closed for some time, in order that vital maintenance work be done. Therefore …
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… her husband’s arrest was inevitable and the considerable time she and her two small children would endure without him …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… was responsible for the organisation of metal workers at a time when the government had increased its repressive …
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe and …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… to change from a monarchy to a republic, and at the same time to request permission to remain within the British …
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… three-year-old son, Fritz, was also in the kitchen at the time but he was not hurt. The perpetrators Craig Williamson …
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… was contrary to the official view of the White DRC at that time. However, during the 1986 synod the following viewpoint …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… Olympics the year before. There he set the world record time for the event, at 2.16.0. South Africa's isolation from …
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… Value Added Tax (VAT) would be increased and for the first time it would be added to all foods. The South African Police …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… the State of Emergency was lifted in 1990, and by the time the first democratic elections had taken place in 1994, …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… of the same year. This particular meeting was the first time de Klerk and Mandela had met since Mandela's release …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… Sports Congress. Furthermore, the tour took place at a time when South Africa was going through a period of …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… especially after the June 16 Uprisings in Soweto . At the time of his death, Qoboza was editor of the weekly newspaper …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… and he was elected as Mozambique's first president. At the time of his death, Machel had been in power for 11 years. On …
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… Speech in Durban. Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Pik Botha, had told the world to expect a radical …
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
… by the Reserve Bank. The central bank introduced at that time, a series of new R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 notes. The …
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… and Malaria. Ironically South Africa was still, at the time, lagging behind other African countries and the rest of …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Afrikaans and his prose works in English. He divides his time currently between Europe, South Africa and the USA. …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… Gandhi and General Smuts, the Colonial Secretary at the time. It was agreed that Indians would register voluntarily …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a remarkable influence on the …
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the African National Congress were required to …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… who suggested that the vaccine might be ready in two years time. The disease has caused a lot of damage in South Africa …
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… I agree with your views on honour and respect. At the same time I do not quite accept your paragraphs 2 and 3. They …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in the country were going to the polls to vote …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… first white person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. Aggett was …