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Vigilantes, allegedly assisted by Bophuthatswana police, attack the homes of ANC supporters in Braklaagte, killing three people
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Nelson Mandela requests that his wife, Winnie, visit him at Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, to discuss arrangements for his relea
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The ANC announces it will dismantle its guerrilla camps in Angola in support of peace.
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Jacob Polokwane, ANC, is shot dead in his car in Francistown, Botswana.
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ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y
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South African security forces begin withdrawal from southern Angola.
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ANC President Oliver Tambo declares, at a gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the f
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On the 70th anniversary of the formation of the ANC, MK attacks Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town.
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SA signs agreement with Lesotho on issuing of notes and coins.
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Members of the S.A. security force murder Dr Richard Turner at his home in Durban.
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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near
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Prof. James L.B. Smith (70), who identified the coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
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500 rebels are reported executed in the Congo over the last six weeks.
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Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.
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Referendum in France approves a peace settlement with nationalist rebels in Algeria.
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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d
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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields including the first Afrikaans films, marries Gide
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The KWV (Koöperatiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika)is founded in Paarl, Western Cape.
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A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
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The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925
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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields, including the first Afrikaans films, is born in
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Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British South African statesman and administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the anne
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The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place, and part of the defending force capitulates two days later. Cape Governor Janssens and th
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
On 9 January 1973 around 2 000 workers in the Coronation Brick and Tile factory in Durban downed tools after the employers rejected their demand for a wage…
ArchiveRick Turner: His writings
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The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa by Andrew Nash
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Re-reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa by Tony Fluxman and Peter Vale
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Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
I began searching for my father's killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an investigative journalist called…
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Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
Cape Town. Christmas 1977. I was thirteen years old. That seems like a very long time ago now, in a galaxy far, far away. We were living in a period of Civil…
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
On 11 January 1963, African National Congress (ANC) member, Walter Sisulu attended a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg…