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EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… school, the Todd Matshikiza School of Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. …
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
… is often referred to as the 'timeless' test, and the only one of its kind in history. Since then, the South African …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… the Johannesburg magistrate, Pieter Kotze, found that no one was to blame for his death. The verdict, which completely …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… a republic and named it Malawi. He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The …
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The region has become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Southern …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… work. A creative writer, he has written in many genres. One his books, Trekking to Teema, became the first internet …
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… Freshford House Museum is one of the few houses of the upper middle class of the …
EventAnna Tempo is born
… She was born in the late 1870s and grew up in Worcester. One day in 1884, a Christian lady by the name of Miss …
Post-detention weapons
… inhabitants of the Republic of South Africa on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the … in the Government Gazette. If all efforts were…
EventFormer Bafana Bafana Legend John Moeti dies
… and Orlando Pirates legend who was known as "Dungi" was part of the Pirates team in 1995 that won the CAF Champions …
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… It led to the devastation of the Simon's Town community. One of the Simon's Town Museum's most important undertakings … the history of Simon’s Town’s…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… opposite of Truth. The lead investigator for the state, one Major-General Stoffel Buys, would proffer his opinion to … told the newspaper. “There were…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… the police’s witness protection programme instead of the one run by the National Prosecuting Authority, after being … according to a source, by a sangoma…
V - The Funeral
… barred from funeral when permits were refused for buses. One of the speakers. Dr. Nthato Motlana, who flew from … on the remaining opponents of apartheid…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… continues to be a severely neglected field of study [v] . One can only speculate that the immigrants acted in response …
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… disagreement between two major ANC groupings.” [2] One of the reasons for this split, as outlined by Jan-Jan …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… how Port Elizabeth developed into a politicised area, one has to examine the labour history. …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Malema had championed an ANC Youth League of the past, one that had ideologically and politically been at the …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… with limited powers. The Cape Colony is considered “one of the great paradoxes of South African history for …
List of deaths in detention
… imprisoning those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the government used to quell …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… Resister, Ram Sundar Pundit is arrested and sentenced to one month's imprisonment November 30, By the closing date of …
The War
… and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the war was one of the set-piece battles, but from July 1900 onwards the …
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… entry requirements to University, and studied law at Wits One of his fellow students was Madiba Joe was an exceptional … He was also of course heavily…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… Thus in May 1957 Lutuli wrote to Prime Minister Strijdom: "One of the tragic aspects of the political situation in our … or when they will come." (Our…
2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018
… on which we, as South Africans, will remember the life of one of the most remarkable leaders this country and this … who live in it. For though we are a…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… intellectuals and others to a belated realisation that one of the bastions of freedom and democracy was being … accepted pattern and are valued by all people…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… action in the teeth of opposition from our people. We have one answer, and that is resistance," he added Evictions in … action in the teeth of opposition…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… and trade union movement in South Africa. The initial part of the proposed article traces the expanse of trade … (Economy, education, income, status). The…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… of Pietersburg and Five Reconnaissance Regiment (5RR), part of the SA Special Forces, together with members of … Party (IFP) supporters who applied for…
PlaceVissershok Farm
… entry was allowed, and the boundary walls now form part of the Western Cape's Heritage . Today, the farm … setbacks, Vissershok remains a working farm,…