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Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis
The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al
Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in
Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat
Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)
ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d
News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in
Joe Slovo (69), national chairman of the Communist Party in South Africa and Minister of Housing in the Government of National
The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a
Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by t
Frederick and Clifford Nissen, brothers of the ANC assistant secretary of the Western Cape, the Rev. Chris Nissen, is shot dead
E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d
Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… for putting "discovery" in inverted commas is because the land was not, as so many explorers argue, discovered by them. The land was already occupied and was…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… the Indians and restrict their right to ownership of land - culminating in the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act of 1946 (the … regime to…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… of progress made. The systematic dispossession of land under both colonialism and apartheid has left us with highly skewed racial distribution in land…
PlaceSteynsrus, Free State Province
The Town was established in 1910. Directly translated from Afrikaans; it would mean Steyn's Rest! The beautiful sand stone Church was well placed at the end…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… kingdom's economy- nor had the Zulu been deprived of their land. The hut tax, however, served to divert some of the … at Vryheid. When the Transvaalers tried…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union…
ArchiveCiskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Sheena Davis, Advice Office Director and Joyce Harris, President of Black Sash regarding the Transkei Independence
Transcript of an interview with Sheena Davis, Advice Office Director and Joyce Harris, President of Black Sash regarding the independence of the Transkei and…
ArchiveReport of meeting between President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, and the U.S. Secretary of State, George Schultz, State Department, 28 January 1987
Report of meeting between President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, and the U.S. Secretary of State, George Schultz, regarding apartheid and violence in South Africa…
ArchiveA reply to Livingstone Mqotsi and the anonymous members of the Unity Movement in Zambia by a member of the Unity Movement in South Africa
Circular by Leonard Makhuza Nikani, a member of the South African Unity Movement, regarding a circular sent out by Livingstone Mqotsi and members of the…
Summary notes of a meeting between a South African and United States delegation on the question of South West Africa/Namibia: Geneva, 13 February 1986
Report of a meeting between a South African and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to Dr Savimbi's visit to the…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the Seventh Provincial Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, 5 February 1954, Durban
… common and joint fight against forces of oppression in our land. The way before us may be long and dusty, but ultimate … make civilisation and democracy a…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… From 1922 the Council stopped the sale of municipal land to Indians, and when a councillor suggested that Indians were in need of land, Councillor H. Kemp…
PlaceSahlumbe
… in the former Homeland of; KwaZulu. It is situated on Land that is rough, arid and isolated when compared to other relocation sites along the Tugela River,…
EventThe South African government finally approves the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa and Gugulethu
On 21 February 1985, the South African government finally approved the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa…
PlaceGroutville
… order to be self-sustainable. He also advised them to buy land and have title deeds as proof of being rightful owners of the land. The converted Christians…