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ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… my post came up for renewal in 1968, I was informed by a new Head of Department that my reappointment would not be … checking with me, Varsity stood by its…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… It was a period of development and of regrouping under new conditions; a period in which newly created political … previous half century, the prospect of…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… for all the settlers at the Kakamas Dam, regardless of age. The goal was to enable these poor whites to become …
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… Building collapsed in 1821, due to severe floods, and a new Church was built in 1837, and secondly when 70% of the …
Introduction
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country …
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… a railway line was opened, in 1937 electrification and a new cement road to Oudtshoorn was completed. The Swartberg … New Dictionary of South African Names…
Staffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Road Apollo, Gavin du Plessis; Exile I: Confusion in New York, Mario Pissarra; The Emergency Series, Garth …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… were raided throughout the country, only ceased with the new democratic dispensation in 1994. The most profound result … Women of Africa: Their Role and…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… when the Bill was announced), but could no longer purchase new properties. They had to lease land from Whites on …
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… by the Information Scandal. P. W. Botha was elected the new Prime Minister and immediately appointed the Erasmus … Major political events in South Africa, …
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… Mandela Unhurt as Driver is Slain. 22 November 1993. The New York Times. [online] Available at: nytimes.com [Accessed …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… and lost her life in the turmoil of our transition as the new South Africa struggled to be born in the dying moments of …
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… Prosecuting Authority, Bulelani Ngcuka, decided not bring new charges against them. …
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… Democratic South Africa (Codesa), a body set to discuss a new constitution for South Africa. They felt that the African …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… time, committed himself to this eventuality as soon as a new constitution was drafted. This process culminated in the …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Park, Harare and Gaborone, Botswana. Such raids were not new, the first one having taken place in 1981, on an alleged …
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… said to have sparked so much jubilation in London that a new word was coined in English, (to "maffick" came to mean …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… the Orange Free State Republics. In the encyclopaedia the 'New History of South Africa' (2007) the authors claim that …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… 1783-1803. With his father he cast, ground and polished a new 460 mm speculum mirror with a focal length of some 6 m …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… annual competitions with national teams from Australia and New Zealand. This competition, known as the Tri Nations, is …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Operation 'Agreement', raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, Barce, and Benghazi was planned …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… were the rural crop and stock farmers who did not like the new measures relating to overgrazing, soil erosion, and stock …
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… the Industry is continually expanding capacity with new developments that will increase the Annual tonnage from … New Dictionary of South African Place Names…
EventCPSA is founded
… and announced the establishment, aims and character of the new Party. The conference formally established the Communist …
PlaceRwanda
… family killed [lxvii] . The German army then helped the new King pacify the any opposition in the country, especially … . His half-brother Jean-Baptiste…
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… The State President, P.W. Botha responded by issuing a new Proclamation, under a different law, once again placing …
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's advice is criticised
… disparaged in the medical and media fraternity alike. A new study published this month by Aids, one of the world's …
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… near Johannesburg, rose in protest against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium …
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… the apartheid regime, has not hesitated to approve of the new measures of repression that its friends in Pretoria have … make it impossible for our enemy to…