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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
Six political refugees, Archie Gumede, the president of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Mewa Ramgobin, George Sewpersahd, M.J. Naidoo, Billy Nair and Paul…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
On 20 July 1998 former Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok testifies under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk…
EventWits attains full university status
The University College in Johannesburg attained full University status under the name the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. The origin of…
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria has approved a Royal Charter creating the British South Africa Company …
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
On 23 September 1983, Gerrie Coetzee, went up against American Michael Dokes in Cleveland, Ohio for the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavy weight title. It…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… Declaration by the Organization of African Unity in August 1989. This document used the Constitutional Guidelines as a …
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49 delegates, was the highest point the …
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… Market Photo Workshop, a project Goldblatt helped found in 1989. What began as a short-term training course has grown …
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… elements. It was declared a National Monument on 17 March 1989. …
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali, celebrating…
Stuart Commission Report
1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION Per its…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? Abstract This essay will firstly lay out government legislation…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective of colourAnswer: As…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
The original portion of this double-storey manor house was built by Dirk Cloete in 1877, and boasts of a number of fine neo-Gothic and Victorian architectural…
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
Newlands hosted its first test match in March 1889, only five years after test cricket was first played at Lords. Not even a Country at the time, South Africa…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William Robertson…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
The Conservatory was designed and erected by Boyd & Son, of Paisley, in Scotland, who dismantled the original building into sections and transported it to Port…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
On 25 July 1990 government security forces detained approximately forty members of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoena, better known as the "Sharpeville Six…
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in the Free State. She studied medicine at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand and became a missionary…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
Eight former apartheid policemen, including former police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Johan Coetzee, former hit-squad commander Eugene de Kock and former…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of South…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
Hansi Pauline Pollak was born in Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In…