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SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT Johannesburg, 14 February 1995
… NELSON MANDELA AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT Johannesburg, 14 February 1995 …
The trial of the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh begins in the Pretoria Supreme Court.
… Aubie ffrench-Beytagh begins in the Pretoria Supreme Court. …
Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei judiciary from South Africa, commences.
… Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei …
The Rhodesian Supreme Court rejects Queen Elizabeth’s ‘reprieve’ of two Rhodesian Black men sentenced to death.
… The Rhodesian Supreme Court rejects Queen Elizabeth’s ‘reprieve’ of two Rhodesian …
Natal Supreme Court judge Justice J. Didcott attacks the government for usurping the powers of the judiciary.
… Natal Supreme Court judge Justice J. Didcott attacks the government for …
Dr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt by the Pretoria Supreme Court.
… discharged on charges of contempt by the Pretoria Supreme Court. …
An Islamic appeals court in Nigeria frees Amina Lawal after she is acquitted on adultery charges.
… An Islamic appeals court in Nigeria frees Amina Lawal after she is acquitted on …
Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei judiciary from South Africa, commences.
… Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei …
Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei judiciary from South Africa, commences.
… Supreme Court Act No 2, providing for the separation of the Ciskei …
Following a spate of court actions involving alleged assaults, tortures in detention and other irregularities, the KwaNdebele L
… Following a spate of court actions involving alleged assaults, tortures in …
Convicted robber and “people’s poet”, appears in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court for allegedly assaulting his wife
… “people’s poet”, appears in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court for allegedly assaulting his wife …
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… in 1960. Langa then found employment as a messenger of court and interpreter for the Department of Justice. Langa … of that year was admitted as an Advocate…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… Alan Keith Brooks was born on 18 May 1940 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His father was a doctor by … people's uprising of 1976, which was entitled Whirlwind…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… General and left Xolobe for Johannesburg in January 1940. Career South Africa in the 1940s was defined by … had never been exposed to racism and racial…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
… an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress …
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… was appointed an acting judge in the South African High Court, and in the same year was elected by the United Nations … first ever panel of judges of the…
BiographyEudy Simelane
… despite there being over 30 reported cases in the decade before Simelane’s murder. Upon leaving the court, Mvubu—who was sentenced to life imprisonment…
BiographyKate O’Regan
… appointed as a judge to the newly formed Constitutional Court. She has served as a judge of the Court since. Her term of office on the Court will end in…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
… Scheepers as one of the chief witnesses for the union in court. This led to a better settlement for the union. From … the GWU. Scheepers was one of the…
ArchiveMagistrates' courts - blasts, apartheid and art, by Lucille Davie, The Heritage Portal, 6 April 2020
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… Cape Bar and in his latter years Judge at the Cape Supreme Court. They set up home in the late 1950s in Newlands , Cape Town and lived there for over forty…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… Statement In Court By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged … of the 1st August, 1913. It is our submission to the Court that the said Minute…
Angolan government forces take the oil-producing town of Soyo from the rebel group Unita, which captured it the year before.
… from the rebel group Unita, which captured it the year before. …
Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol
… Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to …
A hijacker holds an Algerian jetliner for five hours at an airport in western Algeria before he is overpowered. All 232 people
… jetliner for five hours at an airport in western Algeria before he is overpowered. All 232 people …
Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de
… Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de …
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
… The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres …
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
… The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres …
Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de
… Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de …
Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found dead in his house on the Sand River smallholdings between Mak
… Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found …