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EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… 20 January 1989, but could not attend the meeting due to his ailing condition. Acting president, Christiaan Heunis, attended the meeting in his place. Some…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… and abuse. In their efforts to fulfil their baaskap apartheid policy the Nationalist Party, supported by …
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group Areas …
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela: The President of South Africa and anti-apartheid ... Newsfolo-18 minutes ago Remembering Madiba in …
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… Republic of South Africa in 1971. However at the end of apartheid, the Verwoed name was officially changed to Gariep …
Africa South
… Ronald M. Segal claimed to be a socialist, and was an anti-apartheid activist who crossed the South African border into …
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… The city's history also includes the impact of apartheid and forced removals, as well as the eventual …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… the march culminated in the death of Hector Peterson. The Apartheid Government had, in 1953, enacted The Bantu …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… and sculptor himself, he was keenly aware of the damage Apartheid inflicted on local art. To combat this Ainslie …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime relied heavily on imported components for …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… Pretoria talks, which discussed the removal of repressive apartheid measures, and the creation of a free political … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… allegedly involved in hit-squad operations against anti-apartheid activists. De Klerk said in March 1990 that he had …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… country. Only now that the stark reality has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… a press statement; “At last we have been vindicated. The apartheid regime, at its highest levels, ordered the bombing …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… which, at first, supported the nationalist cause and apartheid, and was the mouthpiece of the National Party of …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… The ANC saw it as a power struggle as the demise of apartheid was finalised. The IFP is based on a Zulu cultural …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… One of the most infamous of all security laws during the apartheid era, it severely limited what the media could …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… first state of emergency and the banning of a host of anti-apartheid organisations, including the African National …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… - if I remember, I believe he was a warrant officer, but his name was Vivires (?) - asked me a question on the way to … the police were looking for him. They…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… (1930-) is a prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and … traditional African society. Achebe's knack…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… the Katberg Pass. There is also a bronze plaque in his honour on the Summit of Bain's Kloof Pass, 7 km North of Wellington. His son Thomas also went on too…
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
… is more than a matter for comment. The admitted assaults his dignity under the direction of Colonel Goosen are evidence of a callous disregard for his legal…
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he completed his Senior Certificate. After his release from Robben Island he was restricted under a … by…
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… art training for fear that it would spoil and corrupt his 'natural' gift. As a Christian, he was a virtual outcast in terms of his own culture, but at the…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… 20 February 1971. Van Der Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played … for the most capped springbok of…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… born to Mpande, who was King Shaka’s half brother in 1826. His father declared him his successor very early on in life, which was unusual for a … King to do…
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… African under-20 rugby team. At the age of 22 he played his first international rugby match against South America, marking the start of his 12 year…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… The child is not dead the child raises his fists against his mother who screams Africa screams the smell of freedom … the locations of the heart under siege …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… Chris Thembisile Hani also known to many as Tshonyane (his clan name), was shot and killed in the driveway of his Boksburg home. Soon after, Janus Walus, a…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… Scotland on 5 January 1789. Pringle sustained an injury to his hip as a result of being accidentally dropped by his nanny when he was three months old…