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PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… Street, Orlando West ( Soweto ). The museum is named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those …
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… can take. Apart from mass meetings and processions, one means of making the government and the white people see …
EventThe Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra
… ethnic diversity. It has never truly integrated as one country. It served the British to have the country in …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… purposes only, with the provision of additional energy as one of its chief aims. A secret project was begun by the …
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 66 - Letter from …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… countries to be used as launching pads for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the ANC from their …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… Port Elizabeth township. The play was about two brothers, one (Fugard) light-skinned and a second brother (Mokae) was …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… following day police report that 15 Black protesters and one policeman were killed in the violence, while 31 people …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack. One source states the year as 1979, but gives no specific …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… be proved that members of his Cabinet had been aware of one specific project, namely the funding of The Citizen, …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… South African sponsored forthcoming elections in December. One of the parties, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, was a …
EventCruel murder of Dora Bloch
… Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages of hijacked Flight 139 …
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… Initial reactions to the Apartheid education policy was one of displeasure and rejectment. Students as well as …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… the thirty year old teacher at the Roodepoort School and one of nineteen Indians in detention, died after he had …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… police failed to direct that the marchers should travel on one route after the rally. Instead, IFP marchers were allowed … Profile Transvaal. 1960 - 1975:…
EventHarms releases his report
… The one-man Harms commission released its report on its …
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… other suspects. Though several were released on bail after one year, the Big Three were kept in Pretoria Central Prison. …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… people. Not more than 10 000 out of an expected crowd of one million people came to see and listen to the Pope's …
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… the basement of COSATU House in Johannesburg. Although no one was killed the badly damaged building was declared a …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… in Pietersburg, gave a different version from the one given by the police. Maurice testified "he was told by a …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… Africa. He received the award in spite of the fact that one of his biggest achievements still had to come - the …
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… included a number of writers, actors and singers, but only one painter, J.H. Pierneef at 99. Athol Fugard came in as the …
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… in total, two were flown into the World Trade Centre, one into the Pentagon and the fourth crashed into a field in …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the …
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… related to the Anglo-Boer War. The town is home to one of the largest concentration camp sites from the war, as …
EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… in South Africa. In 2001, LIASA initiated a drive to have one week recognised by the South African Government as …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… refined in a new edition in 1966 by Dr. Cornelius Pama, one of the founding members of the Genealogical Society of …
EventLiberia is established
… of its bond with the United States (US). The country was one of only two countries in sub-Saharan Africa, along with …
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… 12 year international rugby career. Botha is regarded as one of the best South African rugby players of all time. He …