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EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… their families joined them. Moolla was later based in New Delhi as the Asian representative of the African National …
EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
… an award for visual arts from the Woza Afrika Foundation, New York, USA. …
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… on the side of the British/Allies, were South Africa, New Zealand, Senegal and Australia. …
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… legislative issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the Republic of South Africa, in which …
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… the armed forces in a policing capacity was however not a new approach by the Apartheid government, as most of the …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… banished and exiled to for more than 300 years, the new maximum-security prison was established in the early …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… to save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was along side him. In the …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… and The Vedic prayer. Sources: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2. …
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Maclear, at the Cape of Good Hope. In October 1875, a new mission, "Livingstonia", was set up by a group of members …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… as the de Villiers/Pama system, after it was refined in a new edition in 1966 by Dr. Cornelius Pama, one of the …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… He went on to hold a number of important positions in the new South Africa, including general secretary of the Congress …
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… The Reverend was supported by an Indian delegation and the New York-based International League for the Rights of Man …
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
… hit Durban, and the rate at which they spread revealed a new force which many employers had not been prepared. Wide … at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 06…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… pressures and liberate apartheid South Africa. The New York Accords which had propelled her into action, have … to the conflict in South Africa. There is,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… levels of the social ladder, all owe allegiance to this new state. They all seek to achieve the central objective of … change, to co-operate. We are…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… White children were also entitled to allowances up to the age of eighteen for males and 21 for females, while the age … that they could not find employment…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… South Africa, during this period of hegemonic despotism, a new form of unionism emerged that challenged the despotism of … Turner asked this question during…
PlaceMapungubwe Interpretation Centre
… is approached through a valley from where the outcrop of new buildings merges naturally into the veld! As you enter … Building of the Year Award, out…
PlaceSol Plaatje University
… (SPU) opened in 2014 (AS SEEN IN PHOTO) , the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South … and purpose-built structures. The…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… on a SADF victory at Cuito Cuanavale and claiming that the new front opened-up by the Cubans in the west was akin to … economic independence in a difficult…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… they started raping our womenfolk they keep talking of a new life for us they say this thing is also elsewhere they … fact, it was in keeping with the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… National Congress, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, when he spoke at New York's Columbia University 96 years ago, in 1906. He … Africa... Yes, the regeneration of…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… as the Orange Free State, Natal and Transvaal. Many new churches have arisen and the need for ministers has … to unite these churches of the church family…
Appeal by Oliver Tambo to the people of the world on the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987
… people of our country as a whole an opportunity to adopt new initiatives aimed at making further advances toward the … minority colonial domination and its…
PlaceThe AVA Gallery
… to sell the building. The AVA committee then sought a new sponsor who would hold the AVA mandate in high regard … art workshops, framing, studio rentals,…
PlacePondoland
… in return for an annual royalty of 250 pounds in 1874. The new Paramount Chief, Mqikela, refused this offer and in … Commissioner for Pondoland, this was…
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… used the powerful tool- 'Google Earth '- to identify new Cave Sites, in the Cradle of Humankind. Berger noted, … and the Wild Olive. He was then able to…