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EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… he was hospitalised after a long illness he suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Allegedly shot dead by group of men in a white minibus. 26 May Langa, Western Cape Sidwell Nonno (32) SARHWU shop … by an unknown gunman. 21 July…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… general of the ANC. 1950 Moroka resigns from the NRC. 26 March, Moroka presides over the Defend Free Speech …
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 May, E.S Reddy joins the United Nations Secretariat as …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… playing provincial rugby at the age of 21 years old. In 1968, he was the Captain for the African Springbok Rugby …
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… glass windows feature the old TUC coat of arms. In 1968, the Old Arts building was declared a National Monument, …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… are among the points outlined by P.W. Botha on 12 March 1968, the then Minister of Defence. History has shown that …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… the fact that he was banned in his own country. He died in 1968 and was survive by his wife and two children. His son …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… with the aim of infiltrating Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1968, Tambo accompanied the MK group on a number of occasions …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… League and becomes its first president. September 26 , Nomzamo Zanyiwe Winnifred Mandela , ex-wife of Nelson … Mandela and Oliver Tambo . Hilda Bernstein is…
PlaceThe Space Theatre
… 2017, https://theatreofsurvival.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/genesis//a> ↵ [ii] Ibid ↵ [iii] Ibid ↵ [iv] Brian Astbury, …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… [online]. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/world/africa/sudan-agreement.html?searchResultPosition=5 …
ArchiveCelebrating 50 years of South Africas Freedo
Black, red, yellow and white poster. COSATU logo. Artwork of people protesting. 50th Annniversary poster of the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown,…
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… Umkhumbane ceases to exist as the last shack is bulldozed 1968 Cato Manor is largely vacant, with only a few solitary …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… at the gift of the State? I answer emphatically, NO!” 26 June, The ANC’s Transvaal branch holds a mass meeting to … of Justice. To read the report of the…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… the demand. Chamberlain arrived in Durban with his wife on 26 December 1902. Milner met him in Charlestown on the …
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… Africa on the 25th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter , 26 June 1980, the ANC labelled him a “'police agent' and …
Article2016 in Review
… criticising President Uhuru Kenyatta. - 30th: The 26 th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… Australia. Construction of the tower began in June 1968 and was completed three years later, in April 1971. …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929, Hjul lived in Cape …
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… photography in this country. It was donated to the city in 1968 and forms part of Museum Africa . The collection …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… the journey to independence was underway. On 12 October 1968, Equatorial Guinea became an independent state with …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… November [online], Available at www.nytimes.com, [Accessed 26 October 2010] Celean Jacobson, (2008), 'South African … [online], Available at www.independent…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… South African flag used by the Apartheid government. 2015 26 March, The statue of King George V located at the … say students who defaced statue at UKZN ,…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… non-White civilians and three non-White police officers. 26 Black policemen and 365 Black civilians were injured – no …
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… age of 16 starting in 1967. [iv] Gilder joined the SADF in 1968 for nine months, but clearly showed his disdain for war. … Available at: http://www.sahistory…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… The concentration camps, many in the Rustenburg area, saw 26 370 White women and children and 15 000 Black people … technology to smelt higher chrome ore was…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… Tshuma, Leonard Mncube and C Makiwane were killed and 26 others were injured. Langa township was gripped by tension … such as Tanzania, its armed wing Poqo…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Farewell arrived aboard the Antelope . It numbered about 26 persons and included in its number a Dutchman, Josias … laying in additional stores, it headed…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… composed and recorded many new songs; including his 1968 number one hit "Grazing in the Grass", which won him a …