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EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… This aircraft has remained in the service of the South African Air Force (SAAF) up until today. The aircraft was … be replaced with more modern aircraft…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… who wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, was a South African author and journalist. He was educated at Jeppe High … of The Touleier (1930) and was…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1961. Luthuli, president of the then banned…
EventTruman Prince, the controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality, is suspended
… Hendrik Truman Prince is a South African politician and the former mayor of the Beaufort West … journalism show, Special Assignment. Calls for the African…
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki to send two South African judges, Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampempe to … sparked a legal battle with the Mail and…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for … novelists she has written non-fiction on various South African subjects and made TV…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… by Mr. J. Trengove, for the Crown. He said that the African National Congress(ANC) consisted of “intelligent … Cape Town Campus] pg 1 Karis, T.G., 1961. ‘The…
EventCPSA is founded
… established the Communist Party of South Africa (South African Section of the Communist International) and adopted … and S.P. Bunting, treasurer. In 1928 the…
The Majefe Affair
… at the 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 6th-14th July, … University of Cape Town (and,…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress meeting with South African Law professors. Proposed agenda includes Human Rights…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African Football Association (SAFA). Singh was also a … Source: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by the recipient of the 1984 … to pay a visit to Winnie Mandela , wife…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… A combined force of seven thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops and the South African Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships ……
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m Maritime Operational and Communications … forces was exercised, was constructed…
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… and related matters of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), the South African Institute of Race Relations, the University Christian … J.A.;…
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela met … the convening of the Security Council on this issue. Pan African Congress (PAC) President…
ArchiveCircular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… circular from the President of the National Union of South African Students containing the text of the Commission appointed by the South African Students…
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
… and provincialism in contemporary White English South African literature", "IIdeology, the State and South African film", "The right of the people to censor…
EventZimbabwe announces it has severed diplomatic relations with South Africa, but will maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg.
… ending of diplomatic relations between the two southern African countries happened just five months after Rhodesia … itself Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, head of…
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… - the world soccer body has suspended the all-White South African Football Association from international football for … to the continued participation of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… chapters of this league were established in other South African cities, and this group became known as the Women's … the perception of women in the period…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would … for members of this parliament…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… the imposition of colonialism and explores its impact on African societies. Colonialism is often viewed as an … of Europeans. After exploring the first…
ArchiveGovernment Commissions of Enquiry
… The four organisations were the National Union of South African Students, the South African Institute of Race Relations, the Christian Institute …
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… Former secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, was convicted of having incited a stay-at-home of African workers in protest…
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) leader, Robert Mugabe announced … political organisations, ZANU and ZAPU (the Zimbabwe African People's Union), are to…
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela said … fair elections to a constituent assembly. Source: South African History Online …
EventNelson Mandela continues his international tour
… The African National Congress (ANC) deputy president, Nelson … tour to Sweden. His tour had hitherto included African countries such as Zimbabwe, Ethiopia,…
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law on the South African president and the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Thabo Mbeki. He also …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… Bellair, Durban. In South Africa he was a member of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) and …