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Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… Areas. Chief Lutuli sent this message to the people from his sick-bed.] There are no guns or bullets or clubs which …
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… peoples in the Soutpansberg under the ZAR. The ruins of his Residence, on the Western Bank of the Phabenspruit are 16 …
Secret Ballot
… who takes Genocide (The People’s Hope) under his wing. “Secret Ballot” is an exploration of how Political …
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… then as president from independence in December 1961 until his retirement in 1985, except for a brief period shortly …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… demanded the immediate removal of Belgian forces in his country. He threatened to ask the Soviet Union for help …
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… for the rights of all South Africans to the end of his life and remains entrenched in our history as an eminent …
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… resisting moving after every 20 minutes, failing to keep his goods in a vehicle and for trading in a restricted area …
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… . When Louw's attorney asked for suspended sentence for his client, he was told by the magistrate that the case was …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Tshombe . However, Dag Hammerskjöld did not arrive at his destination. The plane he was boarding with fifteen other …
EventSA joins World War II
… Hertzog was left with no option but to resign from his position. The minister of justice, Gen. J.C. Smuts, took …
EventGang leader Andre Stander is shot dead in the United States of America
… resulted in him being shot. He died on the wet driveway to his apartment block while waiting for an ambulance. Stander …
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… a member of the anti-election Freedom Alliance. His stance caused widespread demonstrations in which 40 …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… resisted efforts to integrate into the new South Africa. His attempt to prolong the sham authority of the homeland was …
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the S.A. ambassador in Bophuthatswana not to interfere. His request was not granted as the S.A. Defence Force moved …
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… off course by a decoy beacon as was alleged. Machel was on his way back from an international meeting in Malawi in the …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… Transvaal (now Limpopo). Johannes Frederick van Eck, his wife, son and daughter were spending the December …
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… SA finance minister Trevor Manuel, upon his arrival in Davos, Switzerland, predicted economic growth …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… then sent a message to Sikobobo daring him to take back his cattle. The chief then set about doing this, and a …
EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… an award for outstanding performance by a lead actor for his role in Tsotsi at the Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles …
EventThe second Matabele war breaks out
… of the country. However, when Mlimo was assassinated after his hiding place was found by the British, through an …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… the resignation of President P.W. Botha on 14 August. His announcement on 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Hepple was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… 1972, following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was employed at the …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… under the Terrorism Act. Seathlolo was given 15 years and his companion, Mary was given 10 years. The two were …
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Republic (CAR). He spent seven years in France writing his memoirs. In 1986, he returned to CAR and was arrested as …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… in 2003 in Saudi Arabia. The Ugandan government refused his family permission to allow Amin to die in Uganda. …
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… It was suspected that he may have been pestering her with his father’s inheritance since he was approaching the age of …
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… for the Mashonaland Club and for Vainona High School in his home country. He then moved to Texas, USA, where he …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Therefore, segregation would protect the Whites. His collaborator, D. F. Malan , suggested segregation would … Apartheid oppression started before birth and…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
… in my first year at Michaelis School of Fine Art and he, his fourth year in architecture at UCT. We warmed to each other from the start. I was fascinated by…