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EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… against the Union of South Africa in protest against apartheid. …
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… was a liberal newspaper that operated at the height of apartheid. It was the first newspaper to address the issues …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… used it to mobilise international solidarity against the apartheid regime. With the unbanning of political …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… the Indian community lived under during segregation and apartheid. Educated in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… tensions, Zimbabwe was always a strong opponent of apartheid and as a UN member, supported sanctions to bring …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… constantly worked towards social desegregation. The Apartheid Government appointed a commission of inquiry headed …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took its stand on constitutional …
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… as hopelessly inadequate and alleging that it reflected apartheid priorities in addressing the issues of unemployment …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… the talks after police shot and killed several anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sebokeng, a township in the …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Congress (ANC) and other political formations and the Apartheid regime. A further reason was that the UDF was …
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through their camera lenses. The four …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… forced removals were part of the government's countrywide apartheid plan to turn the residential and business areas of …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… helicopters to South Africa. Protests were led by the Anti-Apartheid Movement . …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed his royal throne in 1995. The car he was travelling in rolled … Britain in 1966. He was king of…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 8.50pm on December 5 2013. He is now … can diminish our sense of a profound and…
Chronology
… president-general 1941 Factories, Machinery and Building Work Act June , Supporters of Malan draft constitution for a … victory of Malan’s National Party…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… Botswana. He was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Botswana. His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, (also known as Khama the Good) of the Bangwato people…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… their policies? "To put it briefly," recorded Lutuli in his autobiography, "the Chamber of Commerce appeared willing … of their low wages," complained that, …
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… was Kabaka of the kingdom of Bungada after the death of his father, Muteesa I in 1884. Upon ascending to the throne, … mwanga expelled all Christian…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… This is especially true in the wake of segregationsit Apartheid policies which attempted to divide and conquer the … elsewhere. This is primarily due to the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… could not be broken by the pain and suffering which the apartheid government imposed on them. She was a woman of rare … the world and the nation revered…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… Heritage of both its much hated ‘Colonial’ Heritage and ‘Apartheid’ Heritage, with something more ‘Universally … Roberts as a form of control of the families…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing National …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… is a significant and gifted female Afrikaans writer, whose work has been translated into several other languages. Wilma …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… where members of one specific race alone could live and work. Group areas were created for the exclusive ownership …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… equality of opportunity in employment; equal pay for equal work; equal rights in relation to property, marriage and … South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid,…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… King around the age of nine or ten after the death of his father Akhenaten. DNA analysis of Tutankhamen’s mummy … It is believed that he is the son of…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… the ANC political discussion journal Umrabulo dedicated to his life and memory. The special edition contains tributes … by a train at a lonely railway…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… Free Blacks at the Cape 1658-1700", gives some details of his life, although it tells us nothing of his farming activities in Stellenbosch. The parts she…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Abe Bailey was born in Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1864. His father, a wagon maker and wool merchant, later moved with his family to Queenstown. When Bailey was…