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EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… prime minister, was assassinated in parliament following his announcement that Egypt was declaring war on the Axis …
EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… and sentenced to six months' forced labour on each. His appeal against the sentence, which he argued himself, was …
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… De Klerk, was born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. Both his parents were members of the National Party in the …
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… party. Dr Manuel held the position until 1991, when his party suffered defeat in the first democratic election. …
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… twelve and a half years later, Dr Chris Barnard, who with his team operated on her, conceded that she had died of …
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… University of Cape Town. Senator Kennedy visited him at his apartment on the way in from the airport. References: …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… in bombing activities. He was MK's first bomber and his diverse achievements include becoming a self-supporting …
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… scheduled for around 11am with the arrival of Mbeki and his visiting Indian counterpart Abdul Kalam. R7, 3 million …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… South African President Thabo Mbeki, who delivered his five minute speech on 7 September. …
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… reduced to ten-men after midfielder Eric Tinkler was shown his second yellow card for a trip on Kwame Ayew, three …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming …
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… Ghali, whose term of office had expired. He assumed his duties on 1 January 1997. After accepting office, Annan, …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which …
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… Mokhehle appeals for South African intervention, but his request is turned down. Despite South Africa's refusal of …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Mugabe’s policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to form his own party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The …
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… by Nelson Mandela in March 1968 to organize a protest when his name was due to be struck off the roll of attorneys. As …
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… On 5 October, 1977 Sir de Villiers Graaff announced his retirement from politics, having been leader of the … 14 February 2013]|SAHO, ‘Sir de Villiers Graaff…
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… Germen colony. It was called German South West Africa. In his book, “Troubled Waters” Joseph Diescho refers to Namibia …
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… and was interested in alleviating their economic plight. His advocacy for the Khoi Khoi to have equal opportunities …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… with General Holomisa as Chairperson. Holomisa and his accomplices later applied for amnesty to the Truth and …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… and Coloured people in the struggle for liberation. His family arrived in South Africa in the 1890s, three …
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… and the Council on African Affairs he headed - and of his associates, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Dr. Alphaeus Hunton … was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… from the time when they were adumbrated by the General in his famous Smithfield speech in 1925 until they reached the … the African regarding legislative…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted with death, she asserted the beauty of life. In the dark days when … she wrote that: "The child is not…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… Van Graan almost immediately remembered what one of his lecturers, Professor Leo Fouche, had taught him about the … Phalaborwa District. In addition to…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… road and is named after Sir Clermont, a farmer who sold his land. It was the only place in Durban where black people … the mission station of…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Science at Columbia University, New York. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 and specialises in … violence in Darfur; the post-9/11 era; and…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK. His new subjects include Adellah Snape, a woman from … life on both sides of the racial divide, and the loss…