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EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… Pretoria Conservatoire for Music from 1959 to 1961. After 1963 she became increasingly involved in the opera …
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… Africa, in particular the General Law Amendment Act of 1963. The legislation became part of the Apartheid State's …
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… years. After his release Mothopeng was arrested again in 1963 and sentenced in May 1964 for furthering the aims of a …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… to the University of Natal where she graduated with BA in 1963 and with an LLB in 1965. It was at the University that …
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… 1936, finally brought Herbert Baker's design to life. In 1963, the Lady Chapel and South Aisle were completed, and in …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… its three main leaders there was no chance of revival. In 1963 the Congress of Democrats (COD) was banned which was … a march to the Union Buildings in…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… became a member of the band that same day. [9] In late 1963, it became clear that the Blue Notes would have to leave … were not allowed to perform together…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… of all cultural, educational and sporting exchanges. In 1963 the Security Council called upon states to stop the sale … UN revolved around assisting the…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… resolved that it would have no leader. Between 1962 and 1963 the NCL focused predominantly on recruiting people from … a pylon as a result of faulty timers…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… supporting Chief Kaizer Matanzima. Subsequent to that, in 1963 a group of twenty Poqo men living in Langa township were … assist in patrolling the…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… regime had been able to supress organized resistance in 1963-64, with the imprisonment and torture of thousands of … structures which had been smashed by the…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History (1963). Abrahams drew for his inspiration in his early poetry …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Pretoria and Johannesburg. Between December 1961 and June 1963 more than 200 installations were attacked with a …
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… socialwelfarehistory.com/eras/march-on-washington-august-28-1963/ [Accessed 25 February 2015] Video: …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… football from 1961 to 1992 (with a one-year reprieve in 1963), South Africa maintained tenuous links with the major …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… in 1962 and then charged in the "Rivonia Trial" in October 1963. But he was a popular leader in South Africa. He was … the Umkhonto high command were…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
Afrikaner newspapers were essential supports for Afrikaner nationalism, and from the 1870s onwards they were used to mobilise Afrikaners, and after 1914 to…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… which was built in 1840. Its machinery ceased operation in 1963 and it was decided to renovate and reconstruct the mill …
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… a move towards independence had already developed and in 1963 the colony was granted self-governance leading to full …
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… important works on race. By the time of his death in 1963 he had written 17 books and edited four journals, and …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… between 1960 and 1994, including the Rivonia Trial in 1963/1964 at which Mr. Nelson Mandela and other leaders of …
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… National Botanical Garden dates back to 1965. During the 1963 Kirstenbosch Jubilee Year Tour it was decided that the …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… organizational problems and the arrest of its leaders in 1963. Despite this, its formation was commemorated every year …
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker On 19 September 1937 a violent collision rocked Vereeniging's Top…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 and 1963 after short periods in the underground. The ANC has a … was captured in August 1962 and Walter…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 and 1963 after short periods in the underground. The ANC has a … was captured in August 1962 and Walter…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… History Society. On the attainment of independence in 1963, it was re-named NMK. Since the 1960's, NMK has expanded …
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… disease which left him disabled. Mothopeng was arrested in 1963 and sentenced in May 1964 to 3 years in prison for …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… to her funeral because her passport had been revoked. In 1963 Makeba testified before the United Nations (UN) of how …