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EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
… has since been sanctified by the ZCC, the largest of the African Independent Churches. Sources: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African…
EventThe United Party is formed
… The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, was … the leadership of General J.B.M. Hertzog, and the South African Party under…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape … Land Act introduced in 1913, which drastically limited African ownership of land. …
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
… The South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his … J.A.;…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
… years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's …
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the … capital, Windhoek, to replace its…
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African government to abolish its apartheid policy. The …
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… of radical liberalism, within a broader spectrum of South African liberalism. The Party was unsuccessful in preventing … relationship with Congress Alliance,…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the … to the manufacture of explosives, Mandela's diary of his…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… demand of the representatives of the united will of the African people - * We undertake to stage country-wide … or collaborate in any way with the proposed…
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…
“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…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, and more …
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… The South African government is divided into three parts: the Executive …
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…