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EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… On 27June 1976, Air France Flight 139, en route from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stopover in … to gain the admiration of the Arab states. On the…
BiographyErnest Mamashila
… Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was … coal merchant and owned a fleet of taxis…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… political stability during the past 62 years. Adv. Vorster went on to analyse the policy directions of the … your destination if you do not know where you…
BiographySheila Weinberg
… Africa. In 1929, Weinberg’s father came to South Africa from Latvia, after the First World War and the Socialist … death rested on the shoulders of 20 year…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
… stance in Central Western Jabavu to erect a shack. In 1976, her son Tsietsi led the student uprising in Soweto . … continue with his education whilst in…
BiographyMolly Blackburn
… attended collegiate high school for girls and graduated from Rhodes University in 1951.She is the mother of seven and … important investigations since the…
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
… the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the University of Cape … Island in 1964, and served a 10…
BiographyJackson Mthembu
… seven. His grandmother and uncles raised him. During the 1976 Soweto uprising, Mthembu was a student leader at … started working at Highveld Steel as a…
BiographyAnthony Holiday
… the Rand Daily Mail as a political journalist. In November 1976 he was charged in the Pretoria Supreme Court under the Terrorism Act. He was charged with…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
… Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo matriculated from Sastri College, Durban in 1972. Apartheid politics … at a very young age when in 1958 his…
BiographyFihla Christmas Tinto
… of 30 000 people of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) from Langa to Caledon Square police station, virtually on the … Conference held in Pietermaritzburg in…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… his high school education at Sekano Ntoane, Soweto, in 1976. He was part of a religious youth movement and from his experiences in the youth movement and as…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
… where he obtained his BSc degree in 1978. In 1976 he joined the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) later … allowed. He saw the benefits of working with…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
… withdrew his passport. However, this did not stop Fugard from supporting an international boycott against South … he had written, Boesman and Lena . Another…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… who became the Vice President of Nusas in 1969 led a march from Witwatersrand University to John Vorster Square to demand the release of people detained … to…
ArchiveList of Exhibits: Legal documents from State v Ndukwana and 4 others
… Legal documents from the 1976 trial of the State v Ndukwana and 4 others. … List of Exhibits: Legal documents from State v Ndukwana and 4 others …
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political … were among other things the Ecumenical Synod; interference from abroad in the Republic's…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 1976 uprising against the use of the Afrikaans in schools. … was erected in front of the museum…
BiographySibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu
… High School in Natal in 1969 where he was principal until 1976. In 1974 he studied PhD in Political Science at the … the ambassador to Germany.He received an…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… in the Senate for the Transvaal and Orange Free State from 1942 to 1948. In 1933 he became a member of the … settle in Braitain with his family. He died in…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
… 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle, … acclaimed bandleader Dave Brubeck…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
… Dutch author and Lawrence Durrell, an Anglo-Irish author. From 1963 – 1965 he became the principal member of the … novel A Dry White Season (1982), set in…
Prime Minister Vorster holds talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Kissinger, in West Germany (23-24 June).
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … Prime Minister Vorster holds talks with the…
Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller…
The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at the National Party Congress incidences on the border of Zambia and the Caprivi S
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at…
Speaking at a ceremony to mark his tenth anniversary as Prime Minister, John Vorster admits that the country has problems, inte
… to mark his tenth anniversary as Prime Minister, John Vorster admits that the country has problems, inte …
Prime Minister Vorster criticises the decision to include a Coloured cricketer, Basil d’Oliveira, in the British MCC team to to
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … Prime Minister Vorster criticises the decision…
John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na
… John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain …
John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie…
The Parliamentary caucus of the National Party unanimously elects B.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, as its new leader. He auto
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood | … caucus of the National Party unanimously…