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ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… Comments and Personal Observations written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our … and the detailed five year plans. Power resides in…
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… The 35th lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Chief Justice M M Corbett in Johannesburg on 7 May 1990, in…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… The government imposed a state of emergency in 27 townships in the Vaal Reef area and banned the carrying of all weapons. … Meetings could be banned and the…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… Fifty-three churchmen were arrested while demonstrating in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow … under the Riotous Assemblies Act and …
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… 27 April commemorates the day in 1994 when the first democratic election was held in South Africa. Today, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day … domination …
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… On 6 September 1945, Bhekisani Manyoni was born in Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with … Junior Secondary School, but returned to Rorke…
Hettie Du Preez
… to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in the trade union movement and in the leadership of a…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in eSikhawini. The political rivalry between the African … (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom…
EventThe University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein
… on 18 March 1950. The institution began as a small college in what was then the Orange River Colony, called the Grey College School in 1904. By 1907, the…
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… Reformed Church of South Africa, and was probably founded in about 1860. The 1875 census indicated that the village had … on the map, but it's virtually a…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Siamese twins have successfully been separated in the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town. The operation, which was conducted by surgeon Syd Cywes,…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… political theorist and philosopher, Friedrich Engels died in London on 05 August 1895 after a long battle with a throat … help manage his father's cotton…
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… Walter Battiss is born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most … important abstract painters…
PlaceJock of the Bushveld, Monument in Barberton
… This is a statue of Jock of the Bushveld. It is located in Barberton in front of the Town Hall. Jock of the Bushveld was born in 1885 along the Voortrekker…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… the lining of the cells and coagulating the blood in the human body.. This virus is named after the Ebola River … which was near the site of the first…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… Farm, (known locally as kwaHlathikhulu) is located in the uMzinyathi District in kwaZulu-Natal. The Farm was previously owned by the … of his people and…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… On 19 and 20 August 1981, in response to the National Party (NP) government’s attempts … into puppet state institutions, a mass meeting was called in Lenasia…
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged with … accused of criminally assaulting his six-year-old daughter in 1959. He was…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… After a 22-year civil war in which 2. 5 million southerners died, South Sudanese calls … region on or before January 1, 1956, traceable ancestry in the South…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic … South African government became the primary role players in the deliberation process…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… but lacked the courage and vision to resist reaction. In 1950, when C. R. Swart, Nationalist Minister of Justice, … with hard labour. The definition of …
Place'Aardoringspruit', Brandfort in the Free State Province
… Brandfort literally means: 'burning bean river', in Afrikaans . (This plant grows here naturally!) Brandfort is a small Town, located in the Lejweleputswa…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… Society presents a memorandum on poor housing conditions in Pageview, Johannesburg, and the need for housing schemes … was popularly known, was one of the…
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
… and Kgotoki Nhlapo-Lewis entitled "Towards a mixed economy in South African agriculture" prepared for a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe in April-May 1989…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull in the mass … Congress leaders called off the…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… its first nuclear bomb test at Reganne, Algeria , in the Sahara desert. At the time, Algeria was under French … Bleue, had a yield of 60-70 kilotons. This…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in CÁ´te d'Ivoire. He went to live and attend school in Mali before leaving for France. When CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained ……
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… Percy John ‘Jack’ Hodgson born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to … she remarried a few years later.Together with…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that she attended the … League where Albertina Sisulu was the…