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PlaceWestoe, Westoe Road, Mowbray
… Restoration in 1967. The Historical Outbuildings date from the 19th Century. It was declared a National Monument …
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… which they considered as an attempt to steer them away from cooperation with their fellow Blacks. …
The South African government has released details of a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Southern Angola.
… and destroyed, including rations originally obtained from the UN High Commission for Refugees. …
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… life imprisonment. Click here to read Fischer's statement from the dock. … SAHO, General South African History Timeline , from South African History Online ,…
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… Minister, in 1963, following that country’s independence from Britain. In 1964 he became the first President of the …
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei, not far from Nelson Mandela's birthplace. Forty Africans were later … uitg . Goodwood, Cape Town: NASOU, p…
EventThe last general election of the Union of South Africa takes place
… under the new leadership of Adv. J.G.N. Strauss, decreased from 57 to 53. … M., A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa , from Nelson Mandela Centre for…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… urged the Blacks not to allow themselves to be removed from the Western areas. This came after a series of … Joburg, (2012), Sisulu Legacy Marked , from City…
EventGamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt
… the Suez Canal and blocked British and French ships from using the canal. This caused the Suez Crisis in which …
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… banning orders. A storm of protest erupted, even from the strongly pro-government Afrikaans press. … Encyclopedia Brittanica, banning , from Encyclopedia…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… Butshingi was President of the South African Cricket Board from 1956-1970, and a community leader in various capacities. …
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: London, p. 389. …
EventReggie Hadebe ANC Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, is gunned down
… Cele and Mr John Jeffries, a lawyer. They were returning from an aborted peace meeting, which was scheduled to take …
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… but the peaceful removal of President F W De Klerk from power; the immediate transfer of political power to the …
EventChris Hani is elected SACP Secretary
… decades after its unbanning in February 1990. He took over from Joe Slovo, who resigned as result of ill health. Hani …
EventNelson Mandela continues his international tour
… law firm, Oliver Tambo, who at that time was recuperating from a stroke. …
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… not as result of a political attack or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the …
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… Mbeki. He also received the Newsmaker of the Year award from the Pretoria Press Club. References: …
EventChairman of the IEC resigns
… Commission (IEC), Judge Johann Kriegler, resigned from his position two years after the Commission's … THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL…
EventThree IFP leaders resign
… leader in the Gauteng provincial legislature, resigned from the party. All three were accused of being moderates who … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
… by its military forces and Matanzima was forced to flee from the Transkei after a bloodless coup led by Defence Force …
EventThe Anglo Boer War
… the resilience of the Boers to defend their autonomy from being usurped by the British government. Instead of …
EventFirst Black-owned newspaper is published
… the Second South African war (or Second Anglo-Boer War) from August 1901 until 1902. Imvo was discontinued in 1998. …
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
… press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to … MDDA, Celebrating World Press Freedom Day ,…
EventGhana is admitted to the United Nations
… on 8 March 1957, two days after it achieved independence from Britain. The country which had previously been known as … About African History, A Brief…
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town from 28 November to 3 December 1981. …
ArchiveFinal Schlebusch report on NUSAS
… General circular from the president of the National Union of South African …
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1979
… of of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town from 13 to 15 March 1979, discussing: Headquarter's report, …
ArchiveCrisis News
… in our country", particularly in the Western Cape and from a theological point of departure. Accounts of human …