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ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… meets the Guptas for the first time. Ajay Gupta serves on the International Marketing Council from its beginnings in … of the country above his personal…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… is appointed to advise the British Resident Commissioner on the codification of customary law. 1939-45 20,000 Sotho … demand independence. 1966 Basutoland…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… near Vereeniging in the province of Transvaal, on 21 March 1960 , was a turning point in the history of … forcing the government to declare a State of…
ArticleThe Big Debate
… foremost issues affecting South Africa. Season 10 began on the 10th of March 2019 with an episode on Land Without Compensation and will run till 28 April…
The Legal Veneer
… expression, assembly, residence, association and so on; or the forced relocation of millions of dispossessed … in the first half of 1990 over 170 persons…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… answered when 156 Congress leaders were arrested and put on trial for high treason. The swoop came in the early hours … - frequent meetings - the government…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned … and unbanned many people, including Nelson Mandela. On 20 and 21 December the first session of…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… in the diamonds mines in Kimberley. Black workers also go on strike in sympathy. The strike lasts a week and is … in Johannesburg formed in 1887. 1897 White…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… emancipation. Black people remain landless, they remain on the margins of economic production and outside of … not maximising the potential thereof to…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… Africans were able to cast their vote for the first time on 27 April 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and … compatriots. Today South Africa is a new…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… The Writers' Guild of Great Britain called for an embargo on the sending of films to South Africa. 26 November 1965 — … Nations General Assembly adopted a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… On 12 September 1977, the Black Consciousness leader Steve … the world to the situation in South Africa. Biko’s funeral on 25 September was attended by some…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… a Nuremberg trial. Source: pbs.org For a great website on the Nuremburg trials that includes guidance for teachers … punish the perpetrators of genocide…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… scientist Rick Turner lead the collective thinking on the establishment of the Commission. 8 June, The first … all sign an objection to the Wage Board's…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town … declared a State of Emergency . The demonstration on 3 September was not the first protest…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… of the British Empire, and set up structures that took on a life of their own. Vella Pillay , Tennyson Makiwane , … first established the germ of the Anti…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African … prisoners and the partial lifting of…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… Madame Speaker, we are privileged to have among us, as on previous occasions, our distinguished Chief Justice, Judge … he will be discharged from active…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… Madame Speaker, we are privileged to have among us, as on previous occasions, our distinguished Chief Justice, Judge … he will be discharged from active…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… this as there is no direct evidence for her claims. On the same day in Gobabis, Hereo chief Traugott Tjetjo and … at Okahandja, Leutnant Zürn, of Frau…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… what we’ve been looking at and what I’ve been focussing on in a lot of the interviews that I’ve done is the role of a … was done to destroy those…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… struggle, their own efforts; as a result of their reliance on themselves.’ 2 Tambo was making a virtue out of a … 1985. MK’s activities exercised…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… upon at multiparty talks , ushered in a legal order based on the concept of constitutional supremacy . From 27 April … limited in its legitimacy and its…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… policy and the UNO South Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in … Campaign. The South West African…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) … 500 per month, and to support these…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) … 500 per month, and to support these…
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) … 500 per month, and to support these…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… Travelling conditions on the ships transporting workers from India were deplorable. … out, ever lurking. The Suffolk departed from Madras on 17 January 1878…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… economy, and of how a seasonal cattle-grazing ground on the farm of a single family became first a railway siding … their animals down the escarpment each…
The appointment of Judges
… drawn from the legal profession and members of Parliament on the basis of proportional representation, was responsible … list of 100 to 25. The commission…