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ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… General Secretary of the Communist Party in Israel on his birthday, a letter sent to the Saudi Arabian authorities …
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
… with ‘World’, a non-White newspaper, du Plooy said that his policy on Africans was one of “leniency and extreme …
EventTennis champion Frew Mcmillan is born in Springs
… and Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Springs. On his own, McMillan also won two pro single titles, and with …
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in Moscow. The date of his death varies in different sources. It is given as 17 …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe receives an honorary degree
… Festival, Tyamzashe was again honoured posthumously for his immense contribution to the field of music. …
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Fund (now Alexander Kerr Memorial Fund) was started in his memory by the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa to …
EventIdi Amin dies
… at the age of 78 as a result of multiple organ failure. His eight-year rule in Uganda had been characterised by …
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr Bursary Fund in his memory to provide financial assistance in the form of …
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
… Makiwane entered Fort Hare in 1955, when he was age 34. His family lacked the means to send him earlier, and he had …
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
… to the Ramagaga group in Thaba 'Nchu as having influenced his career. …
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
… South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his second wife, Ruth, had been detained for questioning in …
EventUS ambassador Andrew Young visits SA
… at the invitation of mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer. On his visit, Young met Soweto student leaders, Black and White …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventDr. J. S. Moroka dies
… of Bophuthatswana, now part of the Free State died in his village of Ratlou. He was an active member of the African …
EventChurch leaders initiate peace summit in Durban
… and held in Durban, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini urged his followers to stop killing each other. This followed …
EventGambia becomes a republic
… Nations. In 2013 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh withdrew his country from the Commonwealth, reportedly because of …
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
… African Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA), Dr. A.L. Geyer. His utterances came during the opening of the Bureau’s …
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… house in which she was staying and asked her to sit on his lap. This would later be used to paint her as a “loose … political journalist confided in her that…
ArticleThe Arniston
… Ceylon, with a fleet of ships, including six Indiamen and His Majesty’s warships. Aboard were injured soldiers and … built by Colonel Giels’ wife. Colonel…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… 2 April 1895, Chief Justice Melius de Villiers delivered his decision on Law 3 of as amended in 1886. With regard to … Your petitioners conveyed the protest…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… and now. The most significant discontinuity was the end of apartheid and its legislative and statutory measures and how …
PlaceSedibeng District Municipality
… their lives while protesting the pass laws of the then Apartheid South Africa. Sedibeng is the fourth-largest …
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… of you are the story. The story of our journey from an apartheid South Africa, to a free, non-racial, non-sexist and … community which waged relentless…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina Buenos Aires, 23 July 1998
… you took the selfless step of breaking ties with the apartheid regime, because you believed that we too should … dismantled the nuclear arsenal established…
EventWilliam Duncan Baxter, SA businessman, politician and financier is born in Dundee, Scotland.
… Scotland on 14 June 1868. He was widely respected for his financial sense and honesty. The Baxter Theatre, a …
EventKamalesh Sharma delivers a speech at the 2010 Nelson Mandela Africa Lecture
… during the 2010 Nelson Mandela Lecture held in London. His speech mainly focused on the “The Commonwealth and …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested, but members of his group are arrested and sentenced to three months hard …
EventPFP stays its ground concerning president Vorster
… in parliament, refused to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on the grounds that not …
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… (Nadeco), with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). His party will be based on three pillars: the restoration of …
EventMandela confirms the appointment of first Black Chief Justice
… standard protocol by announcing that Ismail Mahomed was his preferred candidate. …