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EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… wounded and sick armed forces on land and sea, the third Convention provides rules for the treatment of prisoners of war who are captured during wartime…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… the Main Building. all situated at Defence Headquarters, Pretoria. Stables and they were Erected in the 1890 by the … its Commando System. Shortly after…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… be averted only by the calling of a sovereign national convention representative of all South Africans, to draw up a new non-racial and democratic…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… recharged. They are placed in solitary confinement at the Pretoria Central Prison under Section Six of the Terrorism … 25 August, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… (who enjoyed the appellation, ‘Brother Leader’) during a convention of African Liberation Movements outside of …
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… On 10 April 1972, The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production … London and Washington. South Africa formed part of this convention, and…
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… Natal. The conference called for a national convention of elected representatives of all adult men and … If the Government ignored the demand for a national…
Chapter 8
… December Conference- 1943 When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th … Now concurrently with the sessions of the All…
Chapter 7
… Call to Unity "From the people comes the call to the Convention, a call for a lead. The Executive Committee of the All African Convention at its meeting on…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Society of Carpenters and Joiners was formed in 1881 and other trade unions were established later. For … two South Africans, Hull and Lewis, were executed…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… (MNSD, National Movement for a Developing Society) and the Convention Démocratique et Sociale (CDS, Democratic and Social Convention). In July 2004, Niger…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 78.) 1779 - 1881 The AmaXhosa drive large herds of their cattle across ……
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… Freedom in South Africa' at a meeting of the All-African Convention in December 1935 by Dr. A.B. Xuma, later to be the … Maxeke Child Care Centre.' Click…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… the permanent grip of the defectors over the All-African Convention. As a whole National organisation of intellectuals … a free decision of genuine…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… 31 May 1961 of a multi-racial and sovereign National Convention to draw up a new non-racial and democratic … letter indicated that if your Government did not…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… Following the National Convention held by four British colonies, namely, Transvaal, … predominantly Afrikaner state, favoured a federation. The Convention,…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… as an independent territory under the Bloemfontein Convention in 1854. The convention guaranteed the independence of the territory … [Accessed: 2 April 2014]…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… Organisations banned on 19 October 1977: Black People's Convention (BPC) South African Students' Organisation (SASO) …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… taking place in Kempton Park under the rubric of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa). In the tricameral …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… This would result in the launch of the Black People’s Convention (BPC) in July 1972. July, Saso passes a resolution … towards the homeland leaders, calling…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… British and some of the Boers got together. They held a convention or great meeting in Bloemfontein in 1854. At the Bloemfontein Convention, the British…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… Africa, the remnants of the old APO and the All Africa Convention. The NEUM was radical in its approach. It had … The situation inclined these leaders to…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… was obtained for a Republic. THE CALL FOR A NATIONAL CONVENTION Immediately after the announcement of the … whose programme provides for the convening of a…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… in the eastern Transvaal. 1852 17 January: The Sand River Convention takes place between the British and the Boers, … River or the Transvaal. 1854 February:…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Tribes NBC : Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention (USA) NFEH : Norway’s Free Evangelical Mission to …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… Transvaal Boers independence in terms of the Sand River Convention. Formation of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek 1858 … investigate and finalise the siting of…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… These political forces resulted in the 1908 National Convention, which met for the first time on 12 October 1908. … and adopt the South Africa Act, as…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… Smith to reconsider, calling for negotiations. The Geneva Convention was an attempt to forge a settlement. The convention failed when Smith rejected ZANU’s…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… in Cape Town. Professor A van Selms of the University of Pretoria described "Al-Qawl alÂMatin as the oldest book in … year importation of slaves from…
PlaceNigel, an East Rand Mining Town
… that have been designated under the criteria of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands for protecting rare or unique Wetland … types or for conserving biological…