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EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… 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 for training…
”The Future of the Bill”. Editorial in August 15, 1894
… and, usually, he exercises that power on the advice of his Ministers. The way the Native Bill has been passed … in mind that under Letters Patent…
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… The first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic , Patrice Lumumba , was assassinated a … Congo gained formal independence from Belgium. The…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… Ian Smith became prime minister of the self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. In keeping with the postwar trend toward … to permit Rhodesian…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December 1920. Under the rules of the mandate the…
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… Former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and General Constand Viljoen, former commander of the South African Defence Force (SADF), denied accusations … about…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… that the People's Publishing House has considered it of sufficient importance to come out with an Indian edition of Comrade Lerumo's book - History of the…
ArchiveNUSAS and the future - critical appraisal of structure and direction
… Paper presented at the 55th National Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1977. Paper refers to…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… The colony of Sierra Leone was conceived by British philanthropists and … African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… The former Prime Minister of Transkei Chief George Mzivubu Mathanzima dies at Frontier … George Matanzima was appointed initially as the Minister of…
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki resigned as president of the Republic South Africa on Sunday 21 September 2008. … motion notifying the National Assembly on the…
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… Fietas, a western suburb of Johannesburg, was officially re-named Pageview in honour of Mr. J.J. Page, the Mayor of Johannesburg at the time. Up until this…
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
… British again clashed in what became known as the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal). The battle lasted six days, ending on the 27th of August when the Boers…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd was premier of South Rhodesia from 1953 till 1958. As a leader of a White minority regime during the period, he was considered…
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
… Formerly known as the Belgian Congo, the Republic of Congo was established in 1960. The fight for independence was initially led by Patrice Lumumba of the…
ArchiveDraft reply to commission of enquiry request for oral evidence
… Explanation of the Constitutional nature of the National Union of South African Students, National Student Assembly, the … Draft reply to commission of…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… Present-day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… this date a poem by Nontsizi Mgqwetho lamenting the death of her mother was published. Mgqwetho was the first woman … 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… The leaders of the four 'independent' homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, … the South African State President P. W. Botha . At the end of the meeting a joint…
ArchiveThe politics of nonracialism: White opposition to apartheid, 1945-1960
… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This thesis is concerned with the … The…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a … seats in the new Assembly, all in his tribal homeland of…
EventParliament opens with the debate of no confidence on Government
… South African Parliament opened with the debate of 'no confidence' in government, which was introduced by the Leader of the political opposition, the United…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… hit squads to destabilise South Africa before the end of apartheid. They were also charged with the 1987 massacre of thirteen people in KwaZulu-Natal's…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met in Pretoria to discuss majority … Prime Minister B.J. Vorster joined the…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… National Congress (ANC), is attended by a large number of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, … to discuss the conditions caused by the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke
… Movement where it came from Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defendre of the Hottentots” Chapter IV - Divide and Rule…
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… Sir Harry Smith was the Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852. He ruled during the time of the Frontier Wars and was remowned for…
EventSoweto students begin protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans
… and damaging three other vehicles. The first indication of African unrest at Soweto schools was noticed by government … authorities on 4 June, who reported…
EventEnd of the road for the Union Jack in Africa
… in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia was declared independent and renamed Zimbabwe. The lowering of the Union Jack and the…
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
… The last conventional battle of the South African War (1899-1902), the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal) ended. The battle ended six days … out on 21 August…