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EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… Representative Council began shutting down the university by blockading entrances, on Wednesday the 14th of October. … challenge to access and sustain their…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… subjugation and oppression that is rooted in South Africa. By taking human excrement from Khayelitsha, his action sought … and an appraisal of the lack of…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… Representative Council began shutting down the university by blockading entrances, on Wednesday the 14th of October. … challenge to access and sustain their…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… the fishing industry in the early 1950s. Drawn to politics by a strong social conscience and a dislike for both the … who had the vote in the Cape Province…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that … - is on display. The collector's gallery…
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… The cottage formerly used by Cecil John Rhodes, stands on the main road to Simonstown, … St James. Formerly known as Barkly Cottage , it was bought by Rhodes…
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… was presented. Discussion of the Bill was deferred by two days. Subsequently, Gandhi submitted a petition signed by 500 Indians to the Legislative Assembly,…
EventSpringboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
… The All Blacks, New Zealand’s Rugby Team, was neutralised by solid tackling from the South African side. Though both … other's defence to score a try. The…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… a national flag for the Union of South Africa in 1925 by D.F. Malan. The introduction of the bill came 15 years … was still recovering fresh wounds from the…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… A 38 year old South African man, Lance Dyer, was arrested by French police on 09 October 2005 after he walked through … Eurotunnel believed that Dyer might…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… The South African parliament, which was dominated by the Afrikaner nationalist majority, embarked on a series … voting rights. However, the move was not well…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… areas where Black and White South Africans lived side by side. On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed … land under Black ownership that was…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… of Ethiopia. This thrust was eventually supported by the German Africa Corps in the hope that the whole of North Africa would be occupied by the Axis forces,…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… A stay-away by Black workers in the industrial areas of the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle is called by Black unions and civic groups in protest over…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for Black students. … 1976. However, these rumblings were…
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… (now Johannesburg Central Police). His death was confirmed by police officers Brigadier P. Kruger and Sergeant … of Timol's death was the subject of a…
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… bomb. After he escaped this bomb trap he was arrested by police at his home in the presence of his wife Gertrude. … Pietersburg, gave a different version…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… was an attempt to prevent mass protest demonstration by pupils. However, Black pupils were boycotting schools in … Attempts to re-open schools in Western…
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… Political violence by the youth began after the funeral of assassinated Victoria … Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress…
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw the preparations for the … the decree powers to overrule electoral…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… been imposed on the region and the Zulu people were armed by the British. There is controversy about the date of 28 … states that a Zulu force of 6,000 men…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… work was published posthumously, prepared for the press by G. McCall Theal, and sponsored by the Cape Government from 1893 to 1895. The system of … system,…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… his father’s authority and assumed control of the kingdom. By the time Mpande died, he was only King by name as Cetshwayo had long taken over the decision…
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… a general council of journalists should be established by law to regulate entry into the profession and sit in … were widely criticised. In a Press statement…
Dawn
… Communist Party in order to strengthen the struggle by using armed forces (guerilla warfare). Dawn, published as a monthly journal by the Umkhonto we Sizwe,…
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
… to Zululand. Cetshwayo had been exiled to the Cape Colony by the British and was released in 1882 after a campaign run by the Anglican Bishop of Natal, John…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… Dr Moroko reminded South Africans of injustices inflicted by the government and advocated a civil disobedience campaign … passive resistance campaigns since…
EventNine members of the ANC are officially banned in Dakawa, Tanzania
… followed the announcement made during meetings held by Chris Hani and Stanley Mabizela at Mazimbu and Dakawa on … (NEC) decision on the three groups of…
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… Klip. The stones were laid during the South African War by members of the Wiltshire Regiment who were then Stationed … and is Constructed from rocks painted…
Draft constitution of the ANC
… of this, no further armed actions and related activities by the ANC and its military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe will take … questions arising out of this…