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ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1989 Parties Votes % +/- Seats +/- National Party 1 039 704 48.2% -4.1% 103 -21 Conservative Party 680 131 31.5% +4.9% 41 … Party 431 444 20.0% +6.0%* 34 …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… Public submission amounted to a staggering number of 1,753,424 were made to the Constitutional Assembly during its … against pass laws in Sharpeville ,…
June 17
The second day... was marked by uncontrollable fury and burning hostility...Police also assumed another attitude. They shot at random, and at anyone who would…
The Mountain Committee
A vast popular movement of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and although meetings were illegal, they were held just the same and attended by…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Robben Island. 18 April, Zimbabwe gains its independence. 2 August, Petitions calling for the release of Nelson Mandela … for membership and furthering the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… 1910 - 1919 1910 January 1, Indian Opinion reduced in size for financial reasons. … Bombay 4,253- 3-4 From Rangoon 750- 0-0 From London 135- 8-2 From…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
South Africa announced that it had completed destroying its stock pile of anti-personnel mines. A total of 261 423 were destroyed, while 18 000 were retained…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… the largest pipe bomb in American history- which killed 2 people and injured 111. The motive for the attack, …
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
In January 1912, Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang and George Montsio called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… targets were all slightly met, reporting figures of 2.2%, 5.4% and 18% respectively by the end of 2000,, bringing …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
The sinking of the SS Mendi on 21 February 1917 became one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans,…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… Gandhi forms an ambulance corps to tend the wounded. May 2, Kasturba’s eldest son, Harilal Gandhi, is married to Gulab … Gandhi are informed of the union…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… government declares a State of Emergency and arrests over 2 000 people. At lunchtime, an estimated group of between 30 … Conference is held in…
PlaceGallery 101
In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, France) and his mother Mrs F.M.L. Haenggi founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art…
PlaceMarket Theatre
The Market Theatre was founded in 1976 in Johannesburg by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now based in the center of the Newtwon Cultural Precinct, The Market…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… from "Recovering from Apartheid", in The New Yorker. 1998, 1 January: Desmond Tutu establishes the Desmond Tutu Peace … in South Africa'. 2012: Desmond Tutu…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on student activists and organisations alike. On 19 October 1977 the Black Consciousness…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… for rural and urban landless people on a national scale. [1] The movement’s demands were for land redistribution, … transferring ownership to those living…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
“Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities built around fossil fuel industries,…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
On 25 January 1981, Laingsburg in the Western Cape was devastated by a severe flood. The hard rains immersed the whole town in water, only the roofs of the…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
Delegates from twenty groups (SA government, 'homeland' governments, political parties, political organisations and non-governmental organisations) agreed,…
Dance For All (DFA)
Established in 1991, Dance For All (DFA) is a non-profit dance organisation, originally known as Ballet for All. DFA was an education development programme…
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… December 2017 Goldfish and Hot Water 31 December 2017 – 1 January 2018 Freshlyground 1 January 2018 Prime Circle 7 January 2018 The Parlotones 14 … January…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of … The Regime declares a State of Emergency and arrests over 2 000 people. At lunchtime, 30 000…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Council (CBIC) which holds a conference, in Cape Town on 2 January 1919. 4 June 1923 The South African Indian Congress … that ‘Indian penetration’ was…
ArticleBrazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa (BRICS)
… out-government/brics-brazil-russia-india-china-south-africa-1 …
Event5 murdered Kempton Park bodies found: Kempton park killings
On the 15th of September 2026, Police confirm that the death toll in the investigation into the bodies of women found in Gauteng has risen to seven. The…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… You only win once, and that’s at the end. - Joe Slovo 1 Introduction THE ANC’S PROSPECTS as a national liberation … black-ruled independent states adjoining…
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
The first Huguenots arrived as early as 1671, when the first Huguenot refugee, Francois Villion (later Viljoen), arrived at the Cape. By 1692, a total of 201…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… way to a remote military camp near a town called Sekhodia. 1 January, The Weights and Measures Bill providing for the … concepts and Afrikaans as the only…