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EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… was removed. [i] First constitutional change The 1980s was the time in which brutal levels of repression of … was however criticisms which were made and one…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… necessity to the survival of his people. At the end of the 1980s the ideals of Afrikaner nationalism were severely …
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… along with other prison hunger strikers. In the 1980s he helped steer AZAPO and its ally the National Council …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… that the disease only affected gay men. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of …
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… abuses to an end. When apartheid crumbled in the late 1980s the task of reconstructing a society in which human …
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… carry out destabilisation activities in Zimbabwe. In the 1980s Zimbabwe became an important area of operation for the …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the case …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… movers of the United Democratic Front (UDF). By the mid 1980s the UDF umbrella housed over 700 organizations opposing …
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… in connection with violations of arms sanctions during the 1980s, the embargo on arms sales by the United States was …
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the … Ruben (1952 - 1985) Nativity relief The sculpture of the 1980s can be compared to an…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… they caught many by surprise. Consequently, one of the main narratives about the rebellion has been that it was a … 20,000 residents marched along the Soweto…
PlaceDiep River
… with effortless gardens and homes. Closer to the Main Road and the Railway Line lies the Industrial area, give … than many other suburbs, and, it has Martins…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… the system are the Buffalo River from the West -with its main tributary the Touws River, together forming the Groot River, which joins the main stream 85 km…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… The 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of … shops make for some interesting shopping - these are the…
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
… South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the relaxation of pass laws allowed rural … South Africa. The Settlement was established…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… them into bloody strikes, violence and rebellion. Their main enemy was the Chamber of Mines, a body of men who owned … in the world, while their black…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Boulevard, was a major development started in the late 1980s with the aim of converting a section of Voortrekker …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… Nationalist Party (NP) government throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Another development in the second half of the 1970s …
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was known. It was first described as …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions would …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… continued throughout Apartheid and intensified during the 1980s when the system began to crumble. At the advent of … L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… brazen cross-border raids conducted by the SADF during the 1980s. Read Phyllis Naidoo's book on the massacre here …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… elections held in the Union of South Africa in 1924. Their main opposition was the South African Party (SAP) , led by … freedom, including a prohibition on…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Party turned a blind eye. Instead, one of the party’s main concerns was to avoid discord between English and … in destructive behaviour. A wooden ticket…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… they considered to be their own territory. "Hy was die main ou of the outfit." Don Mattera was die main ou of the outfit, the bozza - the leader of the gang …
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… Taylor: To tell you a bit more about the project… the main aim of the project is to look at a range of … to non-violence, and so it looks at - particularly…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… offers an excellent place to relax after a long Hike. The main attraction at Ai-Ais is the Spa Complex. The thermal … outdoor Pool. Visitors at Ai-Ais can…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… the term 'Bantu' was slowly replaced by 'black'. In the 1980s, South African universities changed their ‘Bantu …