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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…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… The Cradle of Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It is about 50 km North West of … Africanus (nicknamed “ Mrs. Ples ”), found in…
PlaceWindermere
… Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured residents and all other residents, the majority … upon the land which they called home…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… then too, against the background that the text was adopted by an overwhelming majority.' To the credit of the Court, the approach adopted in the directions…
The international situation
… Typescript of speech prepared by I B Tabata and Jane Gool and delivered by Jane Gool at the conference of the All-African Convention …
ArchiveWhen the people share in the republic : They will share in the festival
… Drawing of an ox wagon being pulled backwards by people. Issued by UCT anti republic day ad hoc committee. …
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured … in the North, 1901 1 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen It is by no…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… of apartheid, namely, that South Africa is populated by people and non-people. In the following discussion the … domination and economic exploitation of the…
ArchiveProhibition of Political Interference Act, Act No 51 of 1968
… The Act was to prohibit intereference by one population group in the politics of any other population group and the receipt by political parties of financial…
ArchiveNuclear South Africa
… of map of South Africa with major cities represented by large circles. Map surrounded by image of sea. List of questions. …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… The ensuing debate and deliberations culminated, by a unanimous decision, in the epoch-making formation of the … seven decades of uninterrupted and…