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EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… particulars relating to the employment of Ferdi Barnard by the Directorate: Covert Collection (DCC). The commission … former Civil Co-Operation Bureau (CCB)…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… national hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, awarded to him by the state of Turkey. According to Mandela's spokesperson … this stance due to the human rights…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… workers, on their way to a union meeting, were accosted by several hundreds of non-striking workers at Germiston … the allegation categorically. After a…
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… Town on a 167 day journey into the interior, accompanied by his daughter, Augusta, a companion named Mietjie Versveld, … of Good Hope and the interior of…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had … the London to Cape Town route was met with great sceptism by the British authorities. However…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… had first -hand experience of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the … leadership, 3000 Indians protested against the law…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… Orange River Colony in 1907, this aspiration was also held by the Afrikaner population. These political forces resulted … which met for the first time on 12…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… minerals of copper, gold, and uranium would be exploited by the newly-formed Congolese government. Katanga's secession was supported by most White settlers…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of … May 1943 [”¦] The determined stand at…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , … it was capable of paralysing the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 8 February 1983, Volume 32
… Transcript. Address by Advocate K P C P von Lieres, to the Commission of Inquiry … into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the…
ArchiveThe Plural society in Africa
… The twenty first in the Heornle Memorial Lectures delivered by Meyer Fortes in which he describes and evalutes pluralism … tribal separatism and the…
Yarra Yarra, St Georges Street, Simonstown
… of a wijnhuis. After the property had been purchased by Jan Gysbert Hugo, two semi-detached houses were erected, … garden was laid out in 1897 in accordance…
PlaceAbraham Fischer Men’s Residence, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
… The building was designed by Frank Taylor and was officially opened on 16 October 1909 by the then Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, …
PlacePoswohl Synagogue, Mooi Street, Johannesburg
… The temple was erected by members of the Jewish community who had originally … Jewish families of Poswohl they left behind were murdered by the Nazis during…
EventA Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain
… It was SAA’s third fatal crash. The Dakotas were replaced by the Hawker Siddeley 748 turbo-prop aircrafts in 1970. By 1971, all Dakotas had been phased out…
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… Zaudito. After 45 years of rule, Selassie was ousted by Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam during the 1974 … transformed Ethiopia into a Republic. He is…
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… Rugby Union World Cup. Pienaar was preceded as captain by the legendary Naas Botha, and succeeded by Gary Teichmann. …
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… Thusago, a reporter for the SABC, was stabbed to death by a mob of youths as he and a colleague were on their way … where they had filmed the desecration of…
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… of Daveyton, near Benoni. The incident, which was followed by a barrage of criticism, prompted the government to … Congress (ANC) claimed that its supporters…
EventP.W. Botha petitioned to open all sports venues
… to the state president, P.W. Botha. The petition, signed by 30 000 White South Africans, was organised by a Durban housewife, Mrs Lolly Mackenzie. An…
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… to the Olympics in Barcelona 1992, adding to the two won by swimmer Penny Heyns in Atlanta and the marathon gold by Josia Thugwane at the same Olympics. …
EventPrincess Margaret dies
… the funeral was not a State occasion, it was attended by dignitaries as well as by family members and friends. She accompanied the royal …
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… The strike by mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, also known as the Rand … ended on March 18 1922. The rebellion was a response by White mineworkers to a…
EventUnion of South Africa is inaugurated
… Following delegates of the Boer Republics' agreement by 54 to 6, to accept the British proposals for peace on 31 May 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging was…
EventErmelo is founded
… in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the Reverend Frans Lion Cachet of the Dutch Reformed … The town was reduced to a single standing house…
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… and family affairs. However, in 1986 Matanzima was forced by the South African government to retire from the presidency. He was succeeded by his brother…
ArchiveCosatu News
… Cosatu News, published by COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, … The organised, unified strength of workers was considered by COSATU to be the…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from the International … Africa (14 and 29.V. 1935) have been…