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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 …
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… among us also are Inkosi Zondi and Oscar Zondi, patriots from KwaZulu-Natal who are working to ensure that the nation … his former involuntary temporary home…
EventSouth Africa allowed to compete in the Olympics again
… After being banned from the Olympic games for 21 years, the Olympics Committee …
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
… to have ever played the game and his nickname was derived from his his dribbling skills. He represented clubs such as …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 9 May 1983, Volume 61
… Transcript. Evidence from D P Conradie, of the Commission of Inquiry into the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 3 September 1982
… Evidence from Roelofse to the Commission of Inquiry into the South …
Africa in Today’s World by Max Coleman - Book Launch
… Apartheid activist Max Coleman is about the Cycle of Life: From birth, survival to development in Africa to-day against …
ArchiveNUSAS talks to the ANC
… African Students and the African National Congress held from Sunday, 31 March to Tuesday, 2 April [1986] in Harare, …
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary general from its founding in April 1959, and later as its acting …
ArchiveBolt Number 11 December 1974
… Pat Mosel. Four Poems, Katherine Leycester. A View from Without, Breyten Breytenbach translated by Jonathan …