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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 …
EventSA 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 …
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…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that we call South Africa was only 69 years old. Like most African countries it was an artificial construction of … and Africa. As Harold Macmillan pointed…
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…
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…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… the National Executive Committee of our organisation, the African National Congress. Our President, Comrade Oliver … you have waged over the years for the…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… colonies, independent Boer republics and independent African groups in South Africa under British control. By 1876 … aftermath of the War In the aftermath of…