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EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
Fifty-three churchmen were arrested while demonstrating in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe who would become a leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
On 16 July 1901, the Ladies commission was appointed. The members who were considered impartial were, Mrs. Millicent G. Fawcett, Emily Hobhouse and Dr. Jane…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
Douglas Portway was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He studied fine art at the Witwatersran Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
On 5 February 1956, 11 Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences escaped from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
In an attempt to organise a broad-based and inter-racial women's organisation, the Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) was launched on 17 April…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount a…
PlaceAndriesburg, Eastern Cape
A Mountain, 2 106 m high about 30 km North-West of Queenstown and 20 km South-East of Sterkstroom. It is known by the Xhosa name of 'KwaHelisi', derived from…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
EventFormer South African Football Association president Solomon 'Sticks' Morewa died
Former South African Football Association president Solomon "Sticks" Morewa died at the age of 61. Mr Morewa played an instrumental role in South Africa's…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
The delegation of the African National Congress, and I particularly, feel specially honoured by the invitation addressed to our organisation by the PAFMECA to…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been focussed on those…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had received its initial spark…
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial…
PlaceMauritania
Mauritania, Country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Culturally it forms a transitional zone between the Arab-Amazigh (Berber) populations of North Africa and…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
Sir Winston Churchill escaped from this Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War. Single-storied red brick…
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 December 1970. The Breakwater Prison was constructed in 1860 to house British convicts…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, would not be allowed to use his…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
On 12 June 1909, Natal voted in favour of the formation of the Union of South Africa. During the following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the South African government. This after a raid by…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
The South African prime minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, announced in a statement before the Supreme Court in Cape Town, that Dr. Kenneth Abrahams would be returned…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
Geraldine Fraser was born on 24 August 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a teacher and factory worker. She became politically active at…
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
On 18 February 1960, South African Police (SAP) detectives continue to give evidence at the Treason trial against the accused. The 156 accused in the trial…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
Chief Albert John Luthuli, President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
On 6 March 1957, the first South African Non-White sporting team participated at the World Table Tennis Board Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. They were…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
The adoption of a Programme of Action by the African National Congress (ANC) at the December conference marked one of the most important turning points in the…
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
During the second part of the first session of the United Nations General Assembly, the General Committee decided not to support the request of the Union of…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
On 10 November 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2), Proclamation 276 of Government Gazette 2699 was published. This proclamation…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port Elizabeth attended by several provincial and other motoring clubs, in order to…