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ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… was detained under section 28 of the internal security act from the 28 August to September and also detained on 23 April …
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
… held in Botswana that brought together over 600 articles from across the arts' poets, musicians, photographers, visual …
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… and Coloureds. This resulted in a many forced removals from areas like District Six and Sophiatown, uprooting …
EventSibusiso Ndebele, The premier of Kwa-Zulu Natal province and a National Executive Committee member of the ANC, is born
… Ndebele became premier after the ANC wrested power away from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the 2004 national …
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… commonly known as 'Terror' Lekota, a nickname he received from the soccer field. Lekota joined anti-apartheid movements …
EventWole Soyinka is born
… first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature from the Nobel Prize Committee in 1986. Click here to read …
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… was to eliminate criminal elements and intimidating forces from the townships. … Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to…
EventNew Group Areas Amendment Bill excludes sports
… amenities for different races, but excluded sports venues from its provisions. It is assumed that this step was taken … Political History: a chronology of…
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the 378 people on board, only six …
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… settlement to the interior. Prior to their departure from Cape Town he wrote a manifesto to the Grahamstown …
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State. … Remembered.co.za," James Sebe Moroka…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
… ,Welcome Ncita, who had failed to retain the same title from McKinney. Click here to view Bungu's career record. … Boxrec, " Vuyani Bhungu ", from BoxRec …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium denies accusations of brutality in the Congo Free State
… undertaken by the Leopold II to mine rubber and ivory from his personal colony, exploiting his slaves. Leopold II … A.,( 2011), ‘This Day in African History:…
PlaceOnverwacht
… of the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from Bloemfontein. The place was composed of about seven … & 168| ‘Botshabelo’ Free State attractions…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… to do together to build a South Africa radically different from the one that emerged a century ago. At the same time, … Except for Ethiopia and Liberia,…
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
… experiences in Dar es Salaam and on information obtained from other comrades from time to time. . . . WHAT IS WRONG? . . . No one in the … work of the…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… perforce take precedence over everything else. We who come from Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the hotbeds of war … the ECA, fellow builders of a future…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… From: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents … : A Brief account of the Passive Resistance Struggle from 13 June to 13 November 1946 We are…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… 1989. Normal Opening times are between Monday and Friday from 9am to 4pm, Saturdays from 9am to 3pm. …
PlaceMontagu Pass
… scenic narrow, gravel road driving, ascending from the tiny hamlet of Herold, on the northern side of the … by Henry Fancourt White, a qualified surveyor…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto … political groupings of the 1950s and early…
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… a National Monument, after major restoration in 1982. From the outset, the guiding ethic of the Beau Soleil Music … past 28 years. The number of pupils…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… saw things differently. For them, Bethelsdorp was a refuge from a harsh colonial system that thrived on their labour but … Van der Kemp married a 17-year-old…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… not prepared to allow the torch of freedom to be wrested from their hands and stamped out under the jackboot of … expression of their united opinion by…
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… effort to build our economies as partners, benefiting from each other's endowments. It symbolises an important step … to the cost of this structure and will…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… Parliament', still excluded Black South African citizens from voting. The exclusion of the Black South African … the population of the country, namely the…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was from his involvement in this organization that his ideas on … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 March 1820. From the Cape colony, the settlers were sent to Algoa Bay, … Leaders of the Natal settlers requested…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR) departed from Wellington aboard the SS WAIWERA ship bound for South … South African War. This contingent was…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… buildings stands in Strand Street , across the road from the Koopmans De Wet House , and was originally designed … Reformed faith. However, following a…