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Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… were present at their workplaces embarked on a two hour work stoppage. The unions were left to decides on what time …
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… 17 September 1853. Land was allocated to it for missionary work by Deeds of Grant in 1887 and 1888. The Berlin …
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… by the PAC, which ultimately involved 95% of the African work force in the Cape. A brutal police raid on Langa on 30 …
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… they develop the skills employers want, whether through work experience, volunteering or social activities. Dr Sizwe …
PlacePhilippi
… and Manenberg on what is known as The Cape Flats. During apartheid it was a battleground, and today still faces huge …
PlaceNdabeni
… permanent nature, and the origins of the segregated or "apartheid" city can be traced back to this outbreak. By 1920 …
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… the District Six community that was scattered when the Apartheid Government declared the area a 'Whites only' area. … the District Six community that was…
EventSally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top
… was at the top of her career at a time when South Africa's apartheid regime was facing international sanctions. In order …
EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
… that South Africa possesses were constructed under the Apartheid regime and the real cost of the programme was never …
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… community that was destroyed by the Group Areas Act of apartheid between 1956 and 1977. Before then the first …
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… Dutch and British colonists, but more especially by the apartheid government since 1961. Countless member of the …
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… struggle have now become bound to the questions of post-apartheid politics and the ideology of state power. …
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… of Casper Kruger, was born in Whittlesea, Eastern Cape on his grandfather's farm. In 1842 he married Maria du Plessis … as well as the Krugerrand coin was…
Comrade Keith Khoza`s father being buried on Saturday, 3 February 2011
… condolences to its communications manager Keith Khoza and his family for the loss of his father – Mr Wakheni Wilson Khoza (69) - who will be …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… Federation. The cleric held this position until 1984. His election was a great honour for the Evangelical Lutheran … on 18 July, 1988 at the age of 63. In…
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… Training School under Lorna Peirson . After completing his studies, he went on to teach at the Appelsbosch Training … Rocke’s Drift. Sibisi has won numerous…
EventUN Secretary General is killed in a plane crash
… Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjold was on his way to meet with President Moise Tshombe of Katanga … from a landing, apparently on Mr Hammarskjold's…
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… situation returned to normal. Chief Albert Luthuli burned his reference book on Saturday where he issued a call to non-Whites to follow his example. Duma…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… Delta and now a Special Administrative "Region" of China. His parents moved to Johannesburg in 1956 when he was only thirteen years old. After his first race…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… liberty in SA, was passed in July, and it contributed to his view that his task in South Africa has been fulfilled. …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… War 2 (South African War), summarised the pssure his government has put on the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek … a peaceful settlement." He was hoping to avert…
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… South Africa and Governor of the Cape Province in 1897. His efforts to gain political rights for the "Uitlanders" … Britain and the South African Republic …
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… ArminiaBielefeld and Greece’s Skoda Xanthi. Katongo made his international debut in 2003. He is currently captain of the Zambian national team. Under his…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe refuses to end the Katanga secession
… the independence of Congo in June 1960 from Belgium. In his announcement on Katanga's secession from Congo Tshombe … and Tshombe was taken to Algeria where…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… in Johannesburg to an English father and a Swedish mother. His father Sidney Peter Norton was a journalist and would influence his son’s future career path…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela awards the Gold Order of Meritorious Service posthumously to Enoch Sontonga, composer of “Nkosi, Sekel
… of Meritorious Service (Gold) posthumously to Sontonga for his service to South Africa. . His granddaughter, Mrs Ida Rabotape received the award. Nkosi …
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… a successful rebel war against the forces of Mengistu and his appointment marked the end of years of civil war in the … government, Zenawi promised a…
EventDr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, is born
… In 1959, Kaunda broke away from the ANC and formed his own party, the Zambian National Congress (ZANC). In 1964, … until 1991, when he stepped down following…
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… ban opposition parties in 1960. Consequently opposition to his governance grew and led to several militants’ arrests. In … China, he was deposed by the…
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… and Sarah Graham. Born in Scotland, Lamont completed his schooling in Glasgow and in 1888 obtained an MA degree … at Singapore. In 1910 he came to South…