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EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… On 1 June 1975, eleven African demonstrators were shot dead … 15 were left wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a rioting crowd on the outskirts of…
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… pleasing Buildings and well cared for School Grounds, on the creation of School Climate.This Article speaks about … of Beautiful School Buildings and well…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… the Alliance Programme of Action and mapped a way forward on key issues relating to transformatory matters within the … partners to discuss and arrive at…
PlaceAkkedisberg Mountain Pass
… Pass. It's an easy drive along this tarred coastal pass on the R 326 links the small Farming Town of Riviersonderend … Sir Robert Stanford, is a quaint town…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… by President Kruger in the 1860s, when he was still living on the farm Boekenhoutfontein , in the district of … in May 1883, contractor Charles Clark began…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… going. Our demands presented last Friday, were rejected on Saturday. Overtures made on Monday by the Labour Department on our suggestion were ineffectual,…
PlaceGriqualand West
… annexation of his lands to the Cape Colony . As a result, on 27 October 1871 the diamond fields were proclaimed a … with its capital at Kimberley. Building…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Death was brought about by complications following on brain injury. Biko suffered at least three brain lesions … suffered between the night of 6 September…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… Town of the Magisterial District and Division of George, on the Garden Route - 439 km from Cape Town , 1252 km from Durban and 1213 km from Johannesburg . It…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… National Congress, the warmest fraternal congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council during the last month of this eventful year and…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… Reserves. Families (and sometimes whole communities) lived on land settled by their ancestors, even though such land was now owned by white farmers or land…
PlaceNiger
… the Niger River that flows through them. The Arab legacy on the continent, with the spread of Islam , was also the … by 7 other western African countries. It…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… to creating a culture of caring This culture was based on living in a healing environment which was essential to … her political actions. She was a leader…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… African Students (NUSAS) by developing a working alliance on the Education Charter Campaign. As the number of Black … realities of the poverty datum line…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… 1943 Dr Alfred Bathini Xuma invites Kotane to serve on the Atlantic Charter Committee which draws up a document on African Claims. 1942 17 June, Kotane and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… more radical leadership when Dr. Yusuf Dadoo emerged on the scene (see SAIC section). Dr. Dadoo was elected to the … legislation in the area. The…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… On 13 September 1995, Beverley Palesa Ditsie made a statement … human rights. In her address, Ditsie argued that a focus on women’s rights should include the…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… the untimely and sudden death of Seretse Choabi in London on August 19, 1991. Seretse was born on 16 May 1936 in Bothaville, Kimberley. He attended primary ……
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… Seventies and Eighties—the heyday of apartheid—will be on display through September 19. Goldblatt, who never really … and the personal. The professional was…
EventMinnie Dlamini, the South African television personality is born
… Minenhle “Minnie” Dlamini was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 7 July 1990.[1] Minnie attended Northlands Girls’ High … All That BS, and LIVE.[3] Minnie has…
EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… On 28 September 1984, the 266th plenary meeting of the … measures in that connection." Earlier in the year, on 31 January 1984, South Africa had submitted a…
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… death of Dr Hoosen Mia Haffejee while in police detention on 2 August 1977 was symptomatic of the brutality employed by … during Apartheid. Dr Haffejee was…
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… On 1 June 1773, the Jonge Thomas, a Dutch East India ship, … ordered the ship's cannon fired to warn the people on shore that they may need help. Shortly…
EventDr. Essop Goolam Pahad, former Minister in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa is born
… President and had specific responsibility for the Office on the Rights of the Child (ORC), Office on the Status of Disabled People (OSPD), Office on the…
EventSA actress, Ashley Callie dies
… of Leonie Haines in the soap opera Isidingo, died on 15 February 2008. Callie was involved in a head on collision with another car. She suffered head…
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… Diana E.H. Russell was born in Cape Town on 6 November 1938. Her mother was British and her father … she completed her PhD at Harvard University, focusing on…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… An International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa was hosted by the United … vocal about the apartheid policy since the early 1950s. On 1 April…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… Pachai Gandhi started writing the following article on board the ship that was to take him to England. It was … even greater zeal.’ And that was precisely…
VI - The Inquest
… Steve Biko affair. Two months after his death the inquest on Steve Biko began on 14 November in the Old Synagogue, Pretoria. The Old … The police and doctors…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… Biko, who died at the hands of apartheid security police on September 12, 1977, is widely seen as the greatest martyr … - leading to his arrest four times…