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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…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
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…
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…
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
Three days after the 1976 Students' Revolt the Government banned 123 people for their involvement and put a nation wide ban on public meetings. The protest was…
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…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
Thirty years after the first Treason trial in 1956, 16 members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were accused of treason in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme…
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
Boesak and his colleagues were addressing a protest meeting on the night of 27 February 1985. The meeting was attended by more than 5000 people at the Durban…
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
Idi Amin Dada Oumee fled Uganda on 29 March 1979* first to Libya and eventually to Saudi Arabia. Amin began his career as a cook in the King's African Rifles…
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
Once part of a vital communications link between Europe and Southern Africa, the RMS Windsor Castle was the last of the Union Castle Line's, "Cape Mail Express…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, the National President of the Black People's Convention (BPC),…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
On 25 July 1990 government security forces detained approximately forty members of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP)…