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… At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held … under emergency rule. Though a call was made by a few Black groups to boycott the curfew, it proved effective when … units" to examine allegations of police misconduct in the township violence. …

… From the book:  Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 6. "congress … briefly it is: The contact of the White race with the Black has resulted in the emergence of a set of conflicting … all youthful forces employed in rousing popular political consciousness and fighting oppression and reaction. It will …

… Since Bartholomew Dias managed to circumnavigate the Cape in 1488 in an attempt to find a sea route to the spice lands of East … called Indiamen, dared the demanding route to East Asia in their relatively ill-equipped vessels. They used … EWH, Dutch in South Africa , from Epic World History , [online], …

… under General Redvers Buller launched a frontal attack in the Battle of Colenso with the intention to relieve the … which began at Stormberg on December 10, brings the Black Week to an end. … SA National Museum of Military History. (1999). Anglo-Boer … The British attack in the battle of Colenso …

… Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney Hebrew Congregation, the oldest Jewish congregation in the Southern Hemisphere! Until the 17th Century the history of Jewry had been played out in the relatively confined geographical Area of the Middle …

… “If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside … the revelation that he was romantically involved with a black man which they refuted. Shepard’s family’s refusal to …

… Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a … correspondent, first for Reuters and later the Daily Mail. In 1903, Wallace, now married to Ethel Violet King, returned … Edgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood. …

… African Student Movement, and was enlarged and renamed, in 1972, as SASM. It came to national prominence when its … most notably by two strands: those aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and those aligned with the ANC. …

… The first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa, heralding a new era in aviation in South Africa. …

… (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, dies in Cape Town. …

… Alina Molebogeng Nancy Lekgetha, nurse actively involved in improving health services in rural communities, is born in Thaba ‘N …

… Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River …

… Six million people in Madagascar vote in elections that topple President Didier Ratsiraka after seventeen years in office. …

… Warring factions in Rwanda agree to form an interim government in an effort to halt bloodletting in Kigali. …

… A notice banning the carrying of weapons in public in seventy magisterial districts is published in the Government Gazette. …

… Ellen Kate Khuzwayo was born on the 29th of June 1914 in Lesotho . She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Thaba … could be attained at any teacher training college for a black person at that time and so she began a career in … months. Ellen’s activities included being president of the Black Consumers’ Union and serving on the executive committee …

… Garden is a large Public Park and Botanical Garden, set in the heart of Cape Town . This Garden features: a Rose … and ' Tuynhuys ', (the President’s official Residence when in the Mother City). Lunch hour, in Company's Garden is generally teeming with locals, who …

… In 1921, in a battle lasting less than 30 minutes between police and … who had settled at the holy village of Ntabelanga, Bulhoek in Queenstown to pray. The event coincided with Smuts’ … was turning 51 on the day. The Israelites used to gather in the area to celebrate Passover.  Towards the end of 1919 …

… The situation in the Eastern Cape in the early late 18th and early 19th century … the Cape. The British settlers, who arrived from Britain in 1820. Each group needed land for their families and their … dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century …

… John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern … other all-white enclaves, ignoring the problems of their black fellow-workers, he attacked them. At a mass rally to … in the 1950s, Gaetsewe stated that it was not only black workers who earned starvation wages, but also that many …

… John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon … fame in 1958 with his musical King Kong, which had an all-black cast. King Kong helped launch the careers of singer, … was also a founder writer for Drum, the pioneering, black-led magazine edited by Anthony Sampson, who was John's …

… Afrikaners In The New South Africa: Identity Politics in a Globalised Economy …

… All races may in future attend performances in the Breytenbach theatre. …

… Sixteen residents are killed in Katlehong in ANC-IFP related violence. …

… Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Handbook , London: Cassell. … Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in a military coup in Burkina Faso. …

… Newton Adams, first physician in Natal, is born in Bloomfield, USA. …

… A bomb explodes in a major departmental store in the centre of Johannesburg. …

… Referendum in France approves a peace settlement with nationalist rebels in Algeria. …

… Thirty residents are killed in a night attack in Tokoza, East Rand. …

… Six people are killed in a bomb explosion outside a bar in Durban. …