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PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Line from Cape Town reached Eerste River. It was acquired by the Cape Government on 1 January 1873. The Village of … great piety and culture who was exiled…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… The ANC is deeply saddened by the news of the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo who was the … congress movement. May her soul rest in peace. Issued by: Jackson…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… North of Welkom. It was founded in 1950 and administered by a village management board. Named after Allan Roberts, who … plates from NBL 27404, which served…
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
… This thesis examines works written about imprisonment by four South African political writers who were incarcerated … on the manner in which they were,…
EventUnFreedom Day
… the poor”[1] and to replace the usual “pompous speeches” by politicians to “be reminded ‘how far we have come’” with … UnFreedom Day rallies have since been…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… Algerian nationalist movements. The analysis is enriched by comparisons with the South African communist movement. … PCA’s pluralist vision was shattered…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… in a series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of … field of philosophical investigation; but was…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Contents: Dear Sir Roy. Emigrant Ship by Reginald Reynolds. The Senate Farce, Stanley Uys with a … Failure: Sir Roy Welensky, Frank Barton with illustration…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… on 03 August 1910 and the building was officially opened by General Jan Smuts in August 1911. The designer of the Old … Union Buildings. The sandstone…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… groups in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the apartheid government and part of its overall policy of … outside of the country. It was…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Sisulu was abducted at his home in Soweto, Johannesburg,by four armed White men who wore balaclavas to conceal their … emerged that Sisulu had been detained…
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… The South African government led by National Party (NP) held a referendum in which white … majority. Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), which was inhabited by more…
EventThe University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein
… River Colony, called the Grey College School in 1904. By 1907, the college had 29 students and ten lecturers and in … 2008 the University faced controversy…
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… of Black people at the time. Its demise was caused partly by its strategy to increase sales. By the time it closed the company’s overdraft was R10 …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… British Commonwealth. This request was strongly opposed by African States, joined by India and Canada, not because of the proposed …
EventThe SABS is established
… 29 of 1993. In terms of the Act, the SABS is controlled by a Council appointed by the Minister of Trade and Industry and is known as the …
EventThe HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire sink near Colombo
… Shortly afterwards, the cruisers came under heavy attack by dive-bombers from the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, … and Hiryu. The HMS Cornwall was sunk…
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… demonstrations and vigils. These were characterized by the wearing of black sashes and by silently standing outside public buildings in major …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… a meeting of the All-African Convention in December 1935 by Dr. A.B. Xuma, later to be the President-General of the … to read All-Africa Convention: The…
EventA national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church, meets to discuss the ‘poor White problem’
… 2 October 1934 in Bloemfontein. The congress was organised by the Dutch Reformed Church and was the first congress … this issue. Research into this issue was…
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… a public company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and by 1967, OK Bazaars had opened 100 stores. OK Bazaars also … relatively well paid. In 1997, OK…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as … the status of the dominions and resisted…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… After the unbanning of the liberation movements in 1990 by the then state president F.W De Klerk, Slovo made his way … first South Africa democratic…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… from reaffirming the struggle for which Aggett died by singing revolutionary songs. Aggett's funeral was filmed … since 1963. Police alleged that he had…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… which the country is now named. Following colonisation by Britain, Southern Rhodesia (what is was called previously) … activity undermined the Rhodesian…
EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… Day. Reconnaissance for the attacks was made in June 1979 by members of African National Congress (ANC) armed wing … and Sipho Matthews Thobela, were later…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… based on the philosophy of Black Consciousness advocated by Steven Biko. It was open to Blacks, Coloureds and Indians, … South African context and opposed…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… was unanimously elected national leader and Prime Minister by the parliamentary caucus replacing assassinated Dr H F … the first few years in office he had…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on Apollo XI's Eagle landing craft and is the … above. Pratley died in 1983 and…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… July 1967, Chief Albert Luthuli died after he was struck by a train on a railway bridge close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid…