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EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… mental institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his actions on a tapeworm in his stomach. This led to him … sentenced to spend…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was marked by a call for his release by China. This was publicized in the Communist … was made public by the United Nations Centre…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… seriously ill with cancer, was released a few weeks before his death on 8 May 1975. Founded in 1951, Drum Magazine was instrumental in the struggle against…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… before a vote was to be taken, Arthur Chaskalson put up his hand. He said that we were posing the wrong question. … die for the fulfilment of democracy. The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Fishes' for whom the chairman of the Labour Party pleaded his detestation as a round for soliciting votes, whereas … the dangers were mentioned of party…
Judaism
… about 4 000 years ago, God makes a promise to Abraham and his descendants and says, " I will be your God and you will … was called David and he made the…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… then to Egypt and to Palestine. He wrote vivid letters to his two children, enclosing pressed flowers for me from … from the Hills and the novels of one B.M…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… of the executive committee of the S.A.I.C., who declared his intention to vote; the other by Dr. Essop Jassat, … we can advance better arguments as to why we…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… who authored the M-Plan with the realisation that the apartheid regime was becoming more vicious with time. He argued that we needed to change the method of…
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… Department of Foreign Affairs immediately after completing his law studies. He also served as South Africa's permanent … Nations (UN). Read more about Botha…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… the documents, which were handed over by the TRC for his involvement of the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by his…
EventBotha found Guilty
… for investigating human rights abuses committed during the apartheid era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a … rights abuses perpetrated by…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. … Botha (later Prime Minister and then…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in Irene, near Pretoria. His ashes were scattered on Smuts Koppie near the farm. As ……
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior attempt on his life since becoming Prime…
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds Dirk Coetzee, Apartheid policeman and Vlakplaas assassination squad … activist Griffiths Mxenge. Mxenge was murdered in 1981 and…
UCT Summer School 2020
… century sociocultural landscape of South Africa. Today his descendants, a hybrid community of some 300 individuals … War II Prof Howard Phillips 2. …
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… attention to what appears to us to be the one fault in his otherwise unexceptionable summary of the year's work in restricting immigration into the Colony…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave … and Stoughton publishers in 1921. The…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the Black Consciousness (BC) movement were banned by the apartheid government. COSAS organized students at secondary … the transfer of Mathew Goniwe , a…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in South Africa was a turning point in his career and changed…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… victory of the National Party(NP), with its platform of apartheid, during the 1948 elections. Though it did not … wartime Premier and a famous international…
EventBram Fischer born today
… Abraham (Bram) Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 … African (CPSA), openly participating in…
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
… Total Strategy. Speaker made personal reference to his own banning orders which had prevented him from continuing his association with the National Union…
EventChris Ntuli is stabbed to death
… incident, believed to be a political murder, happened on his return from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restriction orders…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… offices were in the city, you know. CDV And, what kind of work were you doing, at this time? SS I was working in a … from South Africa, and then he went to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… review the ANC still viewed (non-violent) political work as subject to military imperatives. But traces of … these new forces might jeopardise the struggle…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… the US. Macala’s chosen technique was pastel on paper, and his work has come to be recognized by this medium. He has used other media from time to time. His…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… was at its height, Terence Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85, told the left-wing … build up." In early 1968 - soon after the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
… is to look after the children while their parents are at work. All the earlier methods of education had one thing in … discourages the development of self…