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Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… (William Lloyd Garrison, " The Liberator," 1st January, 1831.) South Africans are an emotional and passionate people; …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… 29% 6% 3% 1993 50% 26% 8% 3% 1996 57% 22% 9% 3% 1997 55% 21% 6% 4% 2001 62% 29% 11% 4% Following is a brief review of …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… working committee and begin a feasibility study. 1985 20-21 March, The IRB meets in Paris. A vote takes place as to …
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… to a local river in Pretoria, the Apies River. [viii] On 21 May 2005 thousands of protesters, who were predominantly …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
2009 marked 100 years since Yusuf Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many activists of the South African socialist…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… German army lost 134 000 soldiers, the Belgian army lost 21 500 soldiers, while the BEF lost 7 900 men, 29 000 wounded …
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, on 21 December 1879. His father was a shoemaker and his mother …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… This incident becomes known as the Silverton Siege . 21 February, South Africa warns Mozambique it will not … from the International Organisation of…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… of a total male African labour force of 88 000 in 1938, 21 000, or one-quarter, worked as domestic servants and lived …
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
… the eve of the opening ceremony, Ganga called a boycott of 21 other African countries, joined by Iraq and Guyana …
EventKaren Muir
… swimming legend, http://swimhistory.org/articles/item/21-karen-muir ↵ [ii] “Tepid Torpedo” Karen Muir remembered, … swimming legend, https://swimhistory.org…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 and the bombing of a French plane over Niger …
EventJan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, is born
… van Riebeeck , was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands on 21 April 1619. An administrator for the Dutch East India …
EventBrett Kebble is shot dead
… Kebble was ambushed in Melrose, Johannesburg, at around 21:00 on his way to a dinner engagement. Andile Nkuhlu, …
EventEgyptian and US Archaeologists discover a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile
… On 20 December 1991 (21 December according to other sources) Egyptian and American …
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), which began on 21 December 1991 at the World Trade Centre, Johannesburg. …
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… This year COSATU celebrates 26 years as a trade union and 21 years in the Tripartite Alliance with the African National …
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… as part of the world wide struggle for Socialism. 5.08.08 …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… government to be administered by a Lieutenant-Governor. 21 August, Boundaries of Natal were defined by Proclamation. … 1850 5 February, First post office was…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… unless they had special permission from the state. 1960 21 March, The PAC campaign against pass laws, in which people … also reported from Cape Town,…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… of an undeclared civil war. The Massacre On 21 January 1987 several men armed with AK47 assault rifles … that the attack had been aimed at Victor Ntuli, the…
EventKoeberg becomes operational
… station in Africa, became operational on this date. On 21 August 1984, the French contractor turned Koeberg-1 over …
EventMakhaya Ntini is found guilty of rape
… bowler of the SA cricket team, was accused of raping a 21-year old student at the Buffalo Park Cricket Ground in …
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
… years in rented accommodation, but on Human Rights Day, on 21 March 2004, the new complex was opened by President Thabo …
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… areas with heavy rains. The heavy rains, which started on 21 February 2000, continued for months, flooding large …
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
… ended. The battle ended six days after it broke out on 21 August when the Boers retreated. The climax of this battle …
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 August 1969. Wynberg Military Base is, with the exception of the Castle, the oldest…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… of Racial Discrimination is commemorated annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed … Day for the Elimination of Racial…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… one of the 156 leading figures, 104 Africans, 23 Whites, 21 Indians and 8 Coloureds, of the South African Congress of …
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… by four sons, Mandla, from his first marriage, and Ndaba, 21, Mbuso, 13, and Andile, 11, from his marriage to Zondi. …