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EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… to report frequently to the SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a … he was challenged to denounce the ANC or be…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… formed government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 … until the country achieved…
EventChris Hani is born
… to enter priesthood, but because of the disapproval of his father he was moved to study in Matanzima Secondary … in Cala, Eastern Cape. Hani’s political…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the … later tourism and Coloured affairs as…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… no other Whites had ever been. Many people, as well as his relatives, assert that it was on one of these trips that … Falls. During the civil war in the…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … He attended school in Germiston…
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… Vorster confirms that there was no prior consultation with his government over Rhodesia's closure of its border with Zambia, but that his government will…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his father. In 1983, he became one of the founding members of … secretary. In 1985, Manuel was…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… he changed its name from Villa Marina to Villa Zain, after his little girl. For her, the spirits of her family still … concedes that the pressure of being…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… related to Indigenous peoples around the world and focuses his studies and professional experience on learning about … prison of Robben Island has had an…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 10 February, Gandhi is violently assaulted by a Pathan on his way to the registration office. 10 Feb – 9 May: Voluntary … the passive resistance campaign…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Cape Dutch Reformed clergy were not happy when he baptised his converts. After seven years, he had to end his work and leave the country, in 1745. The…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… a British naturalist, is the person most remembered for his contribution to how the process of evolution works. He … of Species , which was very…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… object for which we are striving to raise the status of His Majesty's subjects [Indian] and that this desirable and … SAIC was opened by J.X. Merriman on 26…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… of a group of objectors rejecting their call-up. Seated on his left is Cameron Dugmore, later Western Cape education … student, was helping another objector,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Da Gama gives the following description of them in his diary: 'The inhabitants of this country are … in the fire, is attached...' Further east Da Gama and…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… and those that did not. He declared that in this period his main priority was white security. He called on all whites … one in 1957 limiting him to a radius…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… served to confirm that the person had agreed to serve his/her employer to whom they were to be allotted to by the … punishment on the immigrants. The…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter won his first South African powerboat racing title, as well as … from Formula One powerboat racing 18…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his wife Mary Bauermeister visited Soweto. They were … We can however imagine and extemporize. Together…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing … that operated between Kimberley and Pretoria. With…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… suicide here on the 29th of March 1936, and a cairn in his memory has been erected on the farm, at the site of his suicide. The house enjoys a beautiful…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… were now trying to finance elections. Wolton came out with his attack on the party, very poisonous & diseased, but in … reply he was induced to stop till…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… of the House of Assembly in Parliament, Cape Town. In his biography of the man Verwoerd: Architect of Apartheid … had a “dominating personality, and those…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… agreements with the government”; De Klerk refined his strategy for a power-sharing constitution instead of … September 1991. However, since February 1990, De…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… we left the office. Nelson Mandela drove in from Soweto to his law office at the other end of town for a couple of … work and would meet us along the…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… apparently took an interest in local developments besides his political labour problems, and as these developments have … as we found out soon afterwards. He…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… conflicts. There are the conflicts he experiences within his own ethnic group; those he experiences within his racial group, and those he experiences as a…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… own slaves. Canadian professor Wallace Mills noted this in his course on the Great Trek & the Encyclopedia Britannica … Piet Retief only mentioned the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… privileged to honour today. As we approached the day of his assumption of office, I requested the then Chief … State Protocol, the Director General in the…