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ArchiveCiskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Sheena Davis, Advice Office Director and Joyce Harris, President of Black Sash regarding the Transkei Independence
… Transcript of an interview with Sheena Davis, Advice Office Director and Joyce Harris, President of Black Sash regarding the independence of the Transkei and…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… situation, having failed to establish itself as the means of coordinating and federating all revolutionary activity, it … Poqo from their positions as being…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present…
Summary notes of a meeting between a South African and United States delegation on the question of South West Africa/Namibia: Geneva, 13 February 1986
… Report of a meeting between a South African and a United States … Dr Savimbi's visit to the United States, Cuban withdrawal of troops, refugees and the…
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost … the magistrate, J.G. Hay Halkett with the assistance of three assessors…
PlaceCape Flats Nature Reserve, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
… 25 August 1978 The Cape Flats has the world’s highest rate of plant extinction, is highly fragmented and isolated by … The Cape Flats Nature Reserve,…
ArchiveThe politics of the South African Communist Party 1962 - 1990
… A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Studies, … The politics of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Wednesday, … a nonsense going on over the Tupperware. It was a result of that party I…
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… On this date, The British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The Act outlawed all slave trade … to the British slave trade. If slave…
BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
… and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 … Cape when his father was appointed…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South … "15 October marks 22 years…
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… The Cape Town Civic centre is a Building in the centre of Cape Town , which is just under Signal Hill . This building houses the Municipality of the City of…
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…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… ADOPTED AT THE FOUNDATION CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS, ON 5 MARCH 1955, AND INCLUDED AS A PREAMBLE … Forced to Leave Meeting.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…