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Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers, on their way … After a letter of complaint by the…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… a day which should give comfort and hope to everybody in South Africa who calls himself or herself a Democrat. It is … has defended and will continue to…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… command and control of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service be implemented so that the … Special Operations (Scorpions) be located…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… that manner meant he would never be allowed to return to South Africa. Nakasa was part of a group of journalists, many … 06 July 2011] Sonderling, N.E. (ed.)…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… UCT graduate who had worked as a correspondent for the South African News Agency. The banning order set him under … 1973 31/3/1978 Cape TownFormer NUSAS…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… notice of the apartheid system and he hated it. “I saw South Africa as my country, my home. I did not want to live in a … of the documents thus far, there is…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… a plot, he decided to release the documents to inform the world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's … The documents were disclosed in TRC…
Challenges of Leadership in the Current Phase, 1 July 1997
… The central objective of the ANC is the transformation of South Africa into a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and … , from the NDR stand-point, of…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… Manor settlement developed steadily, particularly during World War II which broke out in 1939. During the war years there … own staff, if married, and few…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… Nationalists. One result of this was the new tricameral South African Constitution of 1983, which continued to exclude all South African Blacks (72% of the…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… Goldblatt, famed particularly for his portrayal of South Africa during the apartheid era, decided after he became a … was to focus on people who had been…
The start of mass campaigns
… very hard to say the ANC did this, or the Federation [of South African Women did this or the trade union did this, …
PlaceSada
… “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was first established in 1964 as a … who were driven off the farms. The Land…
PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
… are still in the making. The Cango Caves is one of the World's Great Natural Wonders , sculptured by nature through … report from the 1980s. They were…
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… public was outraged at the harsh methods employed by the South African government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters. Therefore, South African General…
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that it had … [Accessed: 13 March 2014]| Keesing's Record of…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… society’ – including their ideas about a ‘new future South Africa’. Moreover during 1973-85 (a useful cutoff point, the … crushed; the 1973 Pinochet coup in…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request of the South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) to televise …
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution, and the … seems to have regarded the rule…
Mission Stations - I-L
… (p 242), who recorded the following: "Itemba is on the south side of the Kabousi, among Umhala's Caffers. The … made some acquaintance with the house-builder…
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… The past three years have been eventful in South Africa – the aftermath of the Marikana massacre, the … back to bite the party. ANC members, just like all…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress was formed in…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… in Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the … Mesthries, U.S., (1984), …
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Unity on 30 June 1996 following an announcement by South African Deputy President F.W. de Klerk on 10 May 1996. … at www.nelsonmandela.org (Accessed: 06 July…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… of 1976 to look at industrial relations system in South Africa. Two years later the commission made recommendations … the political rights and political…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… Museum not only tells the story of Fine Wool breeding in South Africa in general, but also the History of the van Aardt …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… vehicle in close vicinity of the building which housed the South African Air Force (SAAF) headquarters. Their intention …
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… it was presumed that he would become the Prime Minister of South Africa following B.J. Vorster's term of office. In 1977, …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged with his name … man to die tomorrow’ [Available at the National Library of South…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… Residential Suburbs; Agricultural Holdings; Mining in the South of Roodepoort. There is some Commercial activity in the … Hall and they use the Lake for…