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Chapter 14
… - the All African National Congress. It was to be the political party which every African would be expected to … abolishing both the federal body, the…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… hope of our avoiding the gallows, yet our defence was a political one, to show why we were prepared to act against … aristocracy but broke with his people to…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… the notions of dormancy, quiescence, silence and political vacuum, some general observations need to be made … popular association with the ANC was more than…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… Plessis, who bore him seven daughters and nine sons. As a political figure Paul Kruger was elected as the State …
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… targets of attacks by anti -apartheid militants in the political struggle. The killers of 150 South African police …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979)
… politics and race: South Africa; South Africa a historical political overview; Early developments of white and non-white …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979
… politics and race: South Africa; South Africa a historical political overview; Early developments of white and non-white …
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… regarding parliament as new rules dealing with release of political prisoner suggest that Nelson Mandela could be freed …
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… Council. Nasser is seen as one of the most significant political figures in Egyptian history. He was well-known for …
PlaceMandela House
… once the home of Nelson Mandela , the World's most famous political prisoner and South Africa's former president . … once the home of Nelson Mandela , the…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… from South Africa became part of a wider, global political campaign that the US and UK heeded the call for a …
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… varied than those in his first work and included socio-political as well as personal (specifically love) poems. …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… in Nelspruit. Phosa was an African National Congress (ANC) political campaigner and lawyer. He left South Africa in 1985 …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… their challenges was the unification of the main African political organisations into the All African National …
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… unbanning of liberation organisations and the release of political prisoners. Click here to read Tutu Nobel Peace …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… of National Unity by drawing its members from all major political parties of the fifteen-year conflict. Nkomo was …
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
… within the Mass Democratic Movement. The killing was a political assassination. …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… movements and government led to the release of all political prisoners. Sources: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: …
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… State of Emergency be lifted throughout the country, all political prisoners be released, and the South African …
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, taking on political trials. He joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… Governor of the Cape Province in 1897. His efforts to gain political rights for the "Uitlanders" (foreigners who flocked …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… six months of the Emergency, 575 people were killed in political violence – more than half killed by the police. …
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… at Pretoria Central Prison where he met his old friend and political opponent Robert Sobukwe, the leader of the …
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… to the ‘overthrow of the state, irrespective of their political ideology’. In 1974, Alexander was released from …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… on 31 December 1986. The country was at the height of political conflict and violence that made it hard for most …
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… the end of the year almost 150 people had been killed in political violence, which increased to 600 by September 1985 …
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… from all members of South African society about political crimes, violence and human rights abuses that had …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… the banning orders Luthuli decisively continued with his political activities until his latter days. Additionally … Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (Eds) (1999)…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Act in April 1960, were forced to conduct their political activities underground. …