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EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… be presumed guilty and would have the burden of proving his or her innocence. It also effectively prevented an editor … which was organised in protest…
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… a meeting of African leaders held in Lusaka, Zambia when his plane crashed. The fact that it chrashed over South … about the possibilities of the involvement…
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… the summit hours later, and is thought to have died on his descent. Until the end of apartheid, South Africans had not been able to get a permit …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… the most widely respected South African historians, whose work is widely published, both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that the … images. The museum also specialises in…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him to survive the … during which he engaged in full-time underground…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him to survive the … during which he engaged in full-time underground…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Islam at the Cape was observed by George Foster in 1770 in his book, A Voyage Round the World , [London, 1977]: he … Tuan Sa‘id served a prison sentence of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… in 1902 in Durban. It was established through the work of an English couple, the Ancketills, who had settled in … women in parliament, on condition that they…
PlaceAngola
… the King asked to be baptised and in the process changed his name to João I [xxxi] . The Christianisation of Kongo … and through violence and intimidation…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… raising for milk, meat and skins, and the agricultural work. The Songhai kingdom was the last major one in the … African kingdoms had relied on slaves to…
Restrictions on the media
… had not been hospitalised until he began coughing blood in his cell. But when Nelson Mandela contracted tuberculosis in … from those individuals he felt did…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… 11 February, Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker makes his maiden speech at the City Hall. He takes a forceful … Durban. He made a statement that became…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… of the masses of the people in active struggle against the apartheid tyranny. What do we mean by the masses of the … do not see eye to eye on all issues, but…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… all the opportunities that the university puts at his disposal, the student must become a specialist. Using the … in the outside world once he has…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… me at 5am one morning that the patient had to externalise his/ her trauma. Until some of us could be sent out of … and all my affairs with Robin Gibson a…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… from the navy and went to Natal to begin Missionary work amongst the Zulus. Although the Zulus as a whole were singularly disinterested in both his and most…
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
… owned by a subsidiary of the large mining company Anglo American, who have restored the farmhouse to its original …
PlaceOprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls, Meyerton, Johannesburg
… Founded in 2007 by the American Media Executive, Oprah Winfrey . This is a boarding … Founded in 2007 by the American Media Executive, Oprah Winfrey. This is…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… in the rural areas to move into the urban centres to seek work. The government was thus forced to relax its influx … reformist policies he adopted. One of…
Chapter II - More of the same
… for my freedom. I even sang to myself when I drive to work, to the tune of "Around the World in Eighty Days" but … African police bought the house next door…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… the building. This was finished in about 1792, much of the work having been undertaken by Anton Anreith , who designed … since that time. When Martin Melck…
3. Charge of assault against an estate manager
… 20/1877, Natal Archives. I am an indentured Coolie and work for Mr. Thomas Brown, Umgeni Sugar Estate. On Friday ... … on, at the same time struck me with a…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… over the company, asking them to help him get slaves for his settlement . From the beginning of the settlement there … way to deal with this issue, but the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Guguletu attempts were made to stop workers leaving for work and. riot squad cars that arrived to stop this action … flag, went in to negotiate the release…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… been a political army. MK was established to fight against apartheid, at a time when all other forms of resistance had … created, and the bulk of these…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… period, over twelve thousand members readily offered to work overtime to do so. Many employers agreed to place their … on strike in due course and, feeling…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… uprising as the pivotal moment that bolstered the anti-apartheid movement’s divestment campaign and turned world opinion against apartheid in South Africa,…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … People's Organisation (AZAPO) was…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… people, including Koranna and Tswana people, began to work on large maize and cattle farms around the 1880s. The … of the location had been using residents…