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ArchivePaul Simon’s Graceland and the Anti-Apartheid Cultural Boycott by Kaitlin Bedard
… This article forms part of the SAHO and Bridgewater State University Partnership …
EventKing Williams Town schools are closed in commemoration of Victoria Mxenge
… four men in her driveway in Durban. At that time she was one of fifteen United Democratic Movement team members facing …
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… Crisis Committee (NECC) gathered to issue a call for a one day work stay-away on June 16. The call was issued to all …
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… would still be maintained but not a diplomatic one the Taiwanese government was not impressed and cancelled …
ArchiveTerrorist Weapons 2
… weapons used by terrorist groups. Each group usually has one or a combination of the above weapons depending on the …
Mayibuye
… for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside …
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… as having all the elements of a multi-racial society, with one difference, and that Christianity is seen as the …
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… out Foreman in the eighth round. The event is regarded as one of the greatest sporting events of the 20th century. A …
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least populous in Africa. France, which had … on 20 June 2012]|African History Djibouti…
EventLucas Seage is born
… and studied under the veteran artist Sydney Kumalo. He was one of the resistance artists, who saw art as a weapon …
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… him from attending the temple's 50th anniversary. No one was injured, however, and Viljoen attended the …
EventSmugglers of military recruits in court
… Twelve people (eleven men and one woman) appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court after …
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… the anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… but were given prison sentences ranging from seven to one year's imprisonment for being members of the illegal …
EventSA signs Nuclear Treaty
… Nuclear rollback occurs when a nation voluntarily achieves one or more of the following: eliminates its nuclear weapons, …
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in Mooketsi, …
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… World Without Leprosy' is a realistic and achievable goal. One of the congress attendants, Executive Director of the …
EventBafana Bafana lose to Egypt in the African Cup of Nations final
… in this continental competition after winning the previous one on their home soil in 1996. Despite suffering a defeat, …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most progressive in the world. It was approved by …
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called for a one-day general strike on 30 April 1996 to demonstrate …
EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
… support came from listener's licenses like the first one issued to Dr J. van Rensburg. …
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… born in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg district. Nakene became one of the first Black student to graduate with a Bachelor of …
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age of eighty-one. He was elected as president by the Volksraad in 1857 and …
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
… only 134 casualties among armed defenders and twenty-one civilians, but some 1 500 people, mostly Coloureds and …
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… days it was shelling the Boer lines. Labram was one of the defendants when Kimberley was under siege by the …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… in South Africa. He is the father of Alex La Guma, one of the 156 Treason Trial plaintiffs in 1956. …
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… number of attacks on White civilians, with the recent one being an ambush on a motorist at Eikenhof, near …
EventPolitical activist Mvulane Zacharia Bheki dies in detention
… on by the police until he lost consciousness. He was just one of the many detainees who mysteriously lost their lives …
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… Ghadir in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the …
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… There is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the …