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EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… eventually kidnapped during a truce meeting, tortured and on 9 September he was executed by his kidnapers. His execution was recorded on video. Charles…
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… On 10 April 1972, The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and … of any weapons which would enable a country to embark on biological…
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) on 17 January 1996, deposited its Instrument of Ratification on 8 March 1996. AFCAC was established on 15…
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… President of South Africa and was officially inaugurated on 20 September. De Klerk had been Acting State President … 1989, following the resignation of…
ArchiveB S M 1982
… lattice work in bottom right hand corner. Black block on left hand side with white circle with fist in the middle and cross on bottom on circle with word…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… Luderitz is a quaint harbour town on the Atlantic Coast in Namibia . It boasts German history, … of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia is isolated on a…
PlaceCape St Francis, Eastern Cape Peninsula
… Cape St Francis (Afrikaans: Kaap St Francis) is a village on a headland on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa, in the Kouga Local … East India Company…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… us to the established of a ‘democratic South Africa’. On the basis of this commitment many would have been led to … in the path of realising this goal. 2…
PlaceDiep River
… in the colony, he inherited a halfway-house near Wynberg, on the Cape Town-Simonstown road. Rathfelder's Inn, as it … for a post office. Consequently when…
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… Evictions View Larger Map The labour tenants who lived on Gannahoek farm had to work on another commercial farm owned by the McFie family. In … which was…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the … The first church building (1857-1882) was…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " … there are t w o central institutions…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… memorial [to Sir John Herschel] is the Herschel obelisk. On 28 November 1838 the Cape Governor, Sir George Napier, … permanent monument to the Herschels. The…
Event18 political prisoners are released from Bophuthatswana
… On 17 October 1991, 18 political prisoners were released from … prisoners but it was later stated that political prisoners on hunger strike would not be set…
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… On 19 and 20 January the British forces under Lord … during the second week of January, established their camp on the slopes of a hill called Isandlwana. The…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… fortifications, first at the foot of Hangklip, and later on the eastern side below Chapman's Peak. Initial … the newly independent American colonies and…
PlaceUnion Tavern and Stables, Simonstown
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 March 1979. The Union, was a Tavern occupying a plot 80 by 60 feet on Smith Street, bought…
Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
… Africa What does King Goodwill Zwelithini’s new claim on the land of KwaZulu-Natal portend for land reform in South … and undemocratic system of governance…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… in 1913 with the epic march of 5,000 workers indentured on the coal mines of Natal. That march evoked a massive … women who in turn, provoked the Indian…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
… who was banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appeared before the Pretoria Supreme Court on charges including treason and being a…
EventFirst mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg
… mining activities started successively in various places on the Witwatersrand (meaning Ridge of White Waters), the first gold from the Main Reef on the…
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of … a Mahatma. But, unfortunately, there is not a single book on the…
IX - The Doctors
… the doctors who saw Biko between 7 September and his death on 12 September why no effective medical treatment was given. … that at the request of Col. Goosen…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… This interview forms the basis of a report as well on AFRA’s findings on the history of evictions at Boschhoek Farm. The Kunene … next to the Umsundusi River…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Huguenot Memorial Building, 48 Queen … Huguenot settlers in 1688. Its foundation…
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… verandah and the brick and ochre plaster mouldings on the façade are of special interest. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… triangular lateen sail. This vessel grounded in 1554, on the rocks of the little island where the Msikaba River … 900 ton Portuguese carrack; 'Sao Bento',…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security … (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly appeared on Rhodesian (now known as Zimbabwe)…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee was found on this date at the Natal North Coast. Giving testimony … that her husband was abducted from his…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… In the 1990s South Africa began to revise its policy on the use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a…