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EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… or her innocence. It also effectively prevented an editor from publishing a report of an incident deemed to have … South Africa," Criminal Law Amendment Act,…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… v. 3, p. 369. Karis, T. & Carter, G.M. (eds.)(1973). From Protest to Challenge: a documentary history of African …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… but this only served to rouse an even greater response from supporters and participants. At the end of 1946, on 20 …
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… well as Maria Burton, who acted as its national president from 1985 - 1990. The Black Sash is still in existence and …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… the age of 65. In 1905 she became the first African woman from South Africa to graduate with a Bachelor of Science …
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… The 1926 Imperial Conference, held in London from 25 October, accepted the Balfour Declaration, named …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive …
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Plain in Cape Town. This meeting was attended by delegates from over 320 community groups, trade unions, women's groups …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… as a colony and declared Unilateral Independence (UDI) from Britain in 1956. The United Nations (UN) considered this …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… The Democratic Party (DP), formed when factions from various opposition parties to the National Party (NP) …
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.
… in accomplishing most of these goals that emerged from this report. Unfortunately, the greatest threat to … Gomm.N,(date unknown), " South Africa's…
EventNational Party wins general election
… seats for White voters in South Africa had been increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It …
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… as 'Operation Great Storm'. Its aim was to reclaim land from White people and return it to dispossessed Black people. …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… After several months of negotiating, delegations from nineteen political organisations and the South African … ‘Convention for a Democratic South Africa …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… players who went on the tour received financial support from the apartheid governmen and not corporate sponsors as … Anon (1990) 'South Africa Rebel Cricket…
EventThe Citizen reveals housing irregularities in Transkei
… to turn a blind eye. It also described how 1 884 tractors from Austria had been bought, resulting in an exchange loss …
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… but would not give in to hostile pressure and agitation from abroad, which only encouraged militants. After this … Giliomee, H. (2012) ‘The day apartheid…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… the spice trade. Company ships travelling to and from the East would call at the Cape to replenish their …
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… The Portuguese expedition set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… jewelry, a video machine and a decoder she had stolen from the house as their payments. During the trial, the girl … I.(2004) Fourteen-year-old girl found…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… 105 years after a racist decision barred the young lawyer from practising. In 1894 Gandhi became the first non-White …
EventDiscovery of the wreck of passenger liner SS Waratah
… the SS Waratah, with 211 passengers and crew departed from Durban bound for Cape Town, and disappeared without a …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… were not acting on their express authority or orders from the Conservative Party (CP) which they purport to … The doj & cd, Amnesty denied to Hani killers ,…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… did so by May 7. On Sunday, 10 May 1998, Luyt resigned from his position and cited three reasons for his …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… the outbreak of World War II. On 26 June 1945, delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco where they adopted … library.thinkquest.org (2002). …
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… mentioned in Chinese documents pertaining to astronomy from this period. On 20 May 1910, the comet passed its …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… of the Bantu people. It is believed that they moved south from Lake Tanganyika in the 18th century. They were a warlike …
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… was that they should be, so far as is possible, removed from the suspicion of partiality to the system adopted or the …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… During his stay he found that an inoculation of bile from an infected animal safeguarded the rest of the herd. …