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Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… when the Bill was announced), but could no longer purchase new properties. They had to lease land from Whites on …
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… by the Information Scandal. P. W. Botha was elected the new Prime Minister and immediately appointed the Erasmus … Major political events in South Africa, …
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… Mandela Unhurt as Driver is Slain. 22 November 1993. The New York Times. [online] Available at: nytimes.com [Accessed …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… and lost her life in the turmoil of our transition as the new South Africa struggled to be born in the dying moments of …
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… Prosecuting Authority, Bulelani Ngcuka, decided not bring new charges against them. …
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… Democratic South Africa (Codesa), a body set to discuss a new constitution for South Africa. They felt that the African …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… time, committed himself to this eventuality as soon as a new constitution was drafted. This process culminated in the …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Park, Harare and Gaborone, Botswana. Such raids were not new, the first one having taken place in 1981, on an alleged …
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… said to have sparked so much jubilation in London that a new word was coined in English, (to "maffick" came to mean …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… the Orange Free State Republics. In the encyclopaedia the 'New History of South Africa' (2007) the authors claim that … ,[Online],Available at: www.sahistory…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… 1783-1803. With his father he cast, ground and polished a new 460 mm speculum mirror with a focal length of some 6 m …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… annual competitions with national teams from Australia and New Zealand. This competition, known as the Tri Nations, is …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Operation 'Agreement', raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, Barce, and Benghazi was planned …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… were the rural crop and stock farmers who did not like the new measures relating to overgrazing, soil erosion, and stock …
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… the Industry is continually expanding capacity with new developments that will increase the Annual tonnage from … approximately 100,000 tons to 200,000 tons…
EventCPSA is founded
… and announced the establishment, aims and character of the new Party. The conference formally established the Communist …
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… the apartheid regime, has not hesitated to approve of the new measures of repression that its friends in Pretoria have … make it impossible for our enemy to…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… the apartheid regime, has not hesitated to approve of the new measures of repression that its friends in Pretoria have … make it impossible for our enemy to…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… debate provides us the possibility to indicate what the new century and millennium should represent. The picture we … that we transform what may seem to be a…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… obvious inefficiencies of the apartheid era and created new opportunities for some of our personnel. But, if we are … the context of globalisation,…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… over to the Africans. (1) The duality of the old and the new, traditional and technological, western and African, were … received by the weavers workshop was…
PlaceRichards Bay
… Richards Bay Harbour and the Game Reserve, known also as New Mouth . This Area of Richards Bay covers: 'Sandbanks; Mud … of rarities such as the Cuckoo Hawk…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). … was disrupted and/or missed as a result of…
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
… and responsible political efforts seeking to establish new constitutional machinery in his state. …
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… in himself the force of the humble with the dream of the new; the importance of the complex with the power of the … philosophy – as his boss, Mandela, Gerwel…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… applied to draw it fresh from the flames. Breaking new ground The Huddleston band, plus time as sideman and in … for a young musician. But then Masekela…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… applied to draw it fresh from the flames. Breaking new ground The Huddleston band, plus time as sideman and in … for a young musician. But then Masekela…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… as chairman, spoke on the lines of the introduction to the new Party Programme (see page 3 and 6) and hailed the coming … black militancy to white reaction…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… say that some Coloured people have not yet entered the new South Africa and are prone to using racist language … "group areas". De-racialising South African…