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EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… attempt in October. The attempt was blamed on a new anti-Nkrumah organisation, the Kumasi Command, as a …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… On 5 June 1981, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia … January 2000…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… Jean van der Poel, The Jameson Raid (Cape Town : New York Oxford University Press, 1951). Jean van der Poel, … E.J. Verwey (ed). New dictionary of South…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… day church building in Simondium. Simon also published a new verse translation of the Psalms into French in 1703, …
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… of command and the efficacy of detachments. Training new recruits also absorbs already scarce resources. According … , [online], available at: www.sahistory…
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… Ellen Khuzwayo. Source: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: …
Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 11 April 1936
… of mixed descent, so that this effort will open up a whole new field of propaganda for Marxism and the Fourth …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… to the exclusion of Black people from power in the new Union of South Africa. Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, … Politics to 1912|Giliomee, H. and Mbenga, B. …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… establishing the farm was to serve as training ground for new members of the passive resistance movement, prisoners and …
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… the ship and her cargo. He would fire the cannon every New Year's Eve. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… meeting between ANC and Afrikaans opinion makers 1989 5 July, Mandela meets Botha at Tuynhuys 1989 21 August, … freeing of Mandela and other political…
EventThe Pretoria Supreme Court orders for an inquiry into the doctors' treatment of Steve Biko at the time of his death
… inquiry. However, this was rejected on the grounds that no new evidence had come to light. Biko’s death on 12 September …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
… The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party …
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… itself from the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1964, The New York Times reported that the South African Press …
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
… The elections resulted in the establishment of the new Government of National Unity (GNU) led by the African …
Directive concerning the nature of the forthcoming ANC consultative conference in Morogoro by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1969
… consider the measures which required to be taken to give a new impetus to organisational work in pursuance of the … this conference was to review our…
Directive Concerning the Nature of the Forthcoming ANC Consultative Conference in Morogoro by O. R. Tambo, March 1969
… consider the measures which required to be taken to give a new impetus to organisational work in pursuance of the … this conference was to review our…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… engagements intended to spread the word about alarming new segregation laws being passed back home. Just how he … shared the stage with Garvey at a sold-out…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… making process,” said Mr Hardres-Williams. “I hope the new Tenant will take up the Garden Project. It’s been a great … is for the Children, who will have to…
PlaceObservatory
… Obs by yourself and you simply know you will leave with a new friend, philosophy or self-produced poem. Observatory is … that pushed the boundaries of…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… Church (DRC) in Swellendam resolved to establish a new congregation to serve the spiritual needs of residents in … Upholsterers and Professional Transport…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… against Discriminatory Legislation To protest against the new proposed colour bar legislation a mass meeting was held … were the speakers, who all emphasised…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… by Bishop Delalle in February 1911, he recommended that a new church building be erected. The present structure was … and helped in some way to Build the…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 1 - 8
… don't reoccupy the old camp sites. We don't want to make new fires exactly where the old fires have been. To build new fires on the old sites might invite…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… expenditure from one department to another - introduce new expenditure items - increase total expenditure - alter … race privilege. Therefore one of the key…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
… process, the Cape School Board finally approved the new high school with Cressy as its first school principal and … Trafalgarians', which is why we…
PlaceVersfeld Pass
… The focus is on the existing Pass! The gradients of the new pass are up to good engineering standards; the road … went to the local divisional counsel and…
ArchiveObituary for Andrew Verster
… or carpet making or wood carving as I have done for the new Constitutional Court – rather that I collaborate with … saw the positive side of things and…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… with which, it could be waged. The uprisings had created new possibilities, which the ANC recognised. First, the South … relationship with South Africa had…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… maZulu. But their rise seems to have been connected with a new development that was taking place at this time in the … and pasturage, but they had not yet…