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EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… The Tjisadane. By November 1950, the entire Second South African Air Force Squadron was fully deployed. This unit … with distinction during the Korean…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… a combination of poor judgement on the part of the South African commander Major -General H.B Klopper as well as the … 1942. Among the units taken prisoner…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… explorer, Batholomeu Dias. When the Dutch colonized South African in the 17th century, the island was used to isolated … years on Robben Islands. Others…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… election. When the fusion between the NP and South African Party (SAP) took place, Swart joined Malan's … passing of the Immorality Act, the banning of the…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… of Namibia (December 1989-March 1990), a Consultant to the African National Congress on constitutional issues (April … at which Mr. Nelson Mandela and other…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… thought to be over 200 Years old. Early in South African History this Site was Inhabited by Iron Age, Basotho … found and are displayed in the Education…
EventThe last ‘Peru and Bala’ show is hosted on Lotus FM
… and Ray Maharaj, which is hugely popular amongst the South African Indian Community. Mathura and Maharaj were radio … Bala’ comedy acts serve as a…
Outcome of the High Court Application, 12 February 2014
… The African National Congress welcomes the court ruling which … Issued by Jackson Mthembu National Spokesperson African National Congress Enquiries: Keith…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra … book and exhibition opened in Durban at…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met … at www.nelsonmandela.org[Accessed: 17 October 2011]South African History Online, ‘4 November’,…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… of South Africa. At the time of his appointment the South African government and liberation movements were engaged in … he wrote judgement on Patricia de…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Early in Cardinal McCann's tenure as Archbishop, the South African Catholic Church began campaigning against Apartheid. … Cardinal McCann accompanied the…
EventChris Hani is born
… Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… Clive Derby-Lewis to death for assassinating the South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani . They were … the country upside down. The sentence…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… its findings of a "dirty tricks" campaign against the African National Congress (ANC). The Commission reported the … apparently sanctioned by senior figures…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… from prison. He also announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and…
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
… In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, successor … died in a plane crash in South Africa, met his South African…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… could have an effect on the outcome of it. Source: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South…
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… a power station, and Maxala Vilakazi, a clerk at the South African Committee for Higher Education (Sached). All three … for being members of the illegal…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… The South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, … SAHO, Nelson Mandela…
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… in Equatorial Guinea. Many of the suspects were South African, including the alleged leader of the advance party, … 23 Angolans, 2 Congolese and 1 Zimbabwean…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War/ Anglo Boer War 2, set sail for South Africa. … and was appalled by the conditions. She…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… political violence took place in February 1990 after South African President F.W. de Klerk made a speech at the opening … among other measures, the lifting…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… in 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first President. Many African countries gained independence after Macmillan’s … British Prime Minister on 3 February 1960…
EventFrene Noshir Ginwala, former speaker of the SA Parliament, is born
… and as a result she had to go to exile. She worked as an African National Congress (ANC) official and a journalist in the UK and other African countries like…
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… During a summit between the South African government and the African National Congress (ANC), both parties agreed to a … Boddy-Evans, A., 2011. ‘This Day in…
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… On 19 January 1973, South African Prime Minister J.B. Vorster confirms that there was … troops and police opened fire on a threatening South African police…
Chapter 12
… already mentioned Dr. Xuma's ad hoc Convention for the African Charter-Bill of Rights. Then there was the National … staking their claim for full democratic…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… Matabeleland. Source: wikipedia. Displaced from the South African highveld, the Mzilikazi's Ndebele trekked over the …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… - and had been behind some of the party's support for the African strikers in 1918, was in Moscow when the miners came …