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EventA police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
… riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… and were forcibly removed from GM premises by the South African Defence Force and riot police. Reference: Niekerk, P. …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… car detonated the landmine. The day after this attack, the African National Congress (ANC) announced from Lusaka that it …
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… in black townships where large contingents of South African Defence Force troops had been deployed to enforce …
EventSoweto High School under siege
… South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of …
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… Adele Lorenzo, South African TV producer, was reported killed in a plane crash in …
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… University in the United States, assisted locally by South African geologist Nicolas Beukes, found evidence of life on …
EventSecond biggest archaeological discovery of the century at Sterkfontein
… of the 20th century was documented in the South African Journal of Science on this date. Dr Ron Clark of the …
EventSA military integration is disputed
… The transition in the South African Defence Force (later SANDF) was not achieved without …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… about the realisation of a fully integrated South African society and it was he that coined the term 'Rainbow …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… that the British had armed Black people during the South African War, though in many cases they had done the same. …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… Verwoerd is born Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, former South African prime minister and chief architect of apartheid was …
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… protests from the international community and several African states, France continued its nuclear tests for years. …
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor himself was …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… Carneson, a listed communist, member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New … SAHO, ‘Fred Carneson’ , from South…
EventBlack, Coloured and Indian churches issues a statement on Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act
… the most controversial legislative enactments that South African government had ever passed. Immorality Act … (Accessed: 08 February 2013)|South African…
ArchiveYouth and the building of the nation
… The paper further questions the effect of the South African state of affairs has on the youth and therein stems …
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… of sexual violence against women and children in South African townships. Simelela provides medical care and …
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… In May 1900, at the height of the South African War (1899-1902), Field Marshall Lord Roberts and his … Boddy-Evans, A., ‘This Day in African History: 27 May…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… family before they gave it to the government. South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement …
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police services opened fire and killed thirty- four … [Accessed: 19 August 2014]|World…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… The Bantu Women's League was adopted and relaunched by the African National Congress as its Women's League structure in …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… occasion of the 95th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress, our movement salutes the people of … we will celebrate the centenary of…
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… Mathematics and Science Study and the Southern and East African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality show that the performance of South African…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… boys to school at Matsieng in Lesotho. They held South African passports and visited family from time to time or … at Maseru bridge or elsewhere in Lesotho…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… in the political, economic, and cultural spheres of South African life. Socialism cannot tolerate the imposition of the … of bondage is the most urgent task…
Part 2: Ahmed Kathy Kathrada Addresses Gandhi Satyagraha Tour Delegates
… Laloo “Isu” Chiba and Shirish Nanabhai. Archived by South African History Online with acknowledgement to the original …
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… Company’s Garden on a secondary axis of the Iziko South African Museum . The original plan was to use the Statue as a …
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… conditions, he received the 'Freedom of Port Elizabeth's African Townships' in 1973 in recognition of his efforts to … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary…