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EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, painter and activist, received the Hertzog …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… the assassins of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Walus, a Polish immigrant, on …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… and mismanagement in the sport. On Thursday 7 May, South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) s executive committee …
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… the deed of Inkatha vigilantes on the payroll of the South African Defence Force (SADF), however the prosecution did not …
SA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… On 29 September 1903, John Koenakeefe Mohl, South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, … The neglected tradition: Towards a new…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… was completed in February 1989, just before the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). On 16 February …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… the 19th century. The epidemic affected most of southern African, but it hit the Transvaal and Northern Cape … Africa, Cape Town : NASOU, v. 6, 0-p. 426.|…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… next year will publish a full history of this great South African, as well as histories of the movements and comrades …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… him on death row for nearly 25 years. On 30 June 1994, the African National Congress Government, moved Tsafendas to the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… On 15 April 1978, Motshwareteu entered the annals of South African athletics when he broke the national 5 000m record at … Mathews ''Loop-en-val''…
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… should come down, not only in the future South African state, but also in the struggle that is going to …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first … www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 19 July…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… of the Legislative Assembly. Five months later, the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its … at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 22…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… South African artist George Mnyaluza Pemba (also documented as …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly committed … [Accessed: 26 October 2012]| South African…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… constitutional talks with the ANC and its South African Communist Party allies. … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The congress made him its president for …
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… armed cadres of liberation movements, particularly of the African National Congress’s (ANC) uMkhonto we Sizwe and …
EventKenya is granted independence
… the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… farmer was accused of the attempted murder of the South African Prime Minister, Dr. H. F. Verwoerd at the Milner Park …
PlaceWarriors Gate: MOTH Museum of Militaria
… and M.O.T.H. Shrine was Built in 1936 and focuses on South African involvement in the two World Wars. It has Military …
Foreword
… Committee wishes to express its appreciation to the South African Commissioner and the staff of South Africa House for …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… guns and carbines, patrolled the vast township. The South African Defence Force army was also on standby in case the …
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), which won the election, was … pro-market, and vowed to privatise…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Economic Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… from vibrant and balanced trade with our neighbours, the African continent and the world. A sustainable economy, where … in the interest of the people as a…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… On behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and on my personal behalf, I greet … representing various contingents from…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… nearly doubled. During that same period, the population of African townswomen grew by 30 000. Between 1918 and 1920, the … in the mines grew from 67 111 to…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… The farm was given to Khumalo’s organisation, Pan African Genesis, by the government. The organisation focuses on the socioeconomic upliftment of South…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… that opulence. The process of the reconstruction of South African society must and will also entail the transformation … that the fact of the apartheid…