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PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… the munificence of the early Patrons of the Gallery. The Main Building, designed by Clelland & Mullins (Public Works … Wragg, Alan Davie and Ronald Kitaj…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… country and disrupt the negotiations. References: UNHCR, ‘Chronology for Europeans in South Africa’, [online], …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… in international action Click here, to read SAHO's Chronology on United Nations and Apartheid. …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… established the Matsieng Development Trust, a body whose main purpose was to encourage and promote rural development … L.E. eds (1999) Southern African…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… also continued his service to the community and the main highlight was the Ponnusamy family’s commitment to the …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… organise African unions on an industry-wide basis. In the 1980s, TUCSA unions, to which the majority of Indian workers … the Natal garment union, battled to…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… War-priest or war-doctor Second to chief in times of war Main adviser to chief Doctors the army for protection … to rebel. [76] Makhanda lived 1.5km away…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… 1. Pieter G. Cloete (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: A chronology. ABC Press, Cape Town, p.331. Benneyworth, …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… of communism and his untimely demise during the 1980s when Apartheid had it reached its zenith. …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyKobera Manual
… gets into your blood. Though it is very quiet with its one main street and has little in the way of entertainment, with …
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… (UDF), an umbrella organisation that swiftly became the main anti-apartheid group in South Africa. Following Boesak's …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… confinement – his living quarters were separate from the main prison and he had no contact with any other prisoners. …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… rural reservations, and strikes and riots occurred in the main industrial areas. Verwoerd's answers to these were bans, …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… (now known as Bertha Mkhize Street) Bridge – this was the main Durban – Johannesburg railway line. His cell was …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… racial divisions of South African society, Abdurahman's main efforts were of necessity directed at the advancement of …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… the imagination of South African youth organisations. The 1980s was also a period of serious student protests and … the national profile of student politics…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventScientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah’s disappearance 100 years later
… steamer remains unsolved. Related: Liu, P.C. (2007) "A chronology of freaque [sic] wave encounters". Published in …
BiographyBheki Cele
… uMbumbulu, a rural area in KZN [6] . This was during the 1980s, at the height of the township struggles, and although …
PlaceLebowa
… Transvaal . Seshego and Lebowakgomo, the capital, were the main growth points. The Chief Minister during most of the 1980s was Dr C N M Phatudi. In 1994, it…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar 1996). She grew up learning both … and prestigious French École Normale…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… as July 1913, which is in conflict with the date in SAHO's chronology, but seems to fit in if we assume that the protest …
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
… where she played Ma. Surtie-Richards performed on the main stages across the country, as well as in London, United …
BiographyFanele Mbali
… was more appealing and adopted it instead. Mbali was the main stem of the Mkhonto family tree line. He spent the first …
BiographySimon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a lot of money; his…