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EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in South Africa was a turning point in his career and changed him … Gandhi extended…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… the border between the Cape Colony and the rest of South Africa. The Boers declared the area the Orange Free State, a … Colony and was later incorporated in…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide … became known as the Sharpeville massacre, leading to South Africa's first…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… France enlisted nearly 500,000 troops from its colonies in Africa and Indochina. Nearly 400,000 African Americans were … African women) were enforced across…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… to the bench of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the position of Chief Justice. It is a long line, … As a barrister, he represented defendants…
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 -
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… 1950s. There has never been a more violent regime in South Africa, but we stuck to our nonviolence. But as the years … to protest against the formation of a…
Conference in pictures
… tab View photographs by Jenny Altschuler from the Bonani Africa 2010 Conference at the Centre of the Book in Cape Town …
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… is based on the following cardinal principles: 1) Africa is a blackman's country. Africans are the natives of Africa and they have inhabited Africa, their…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… wish to examine the condition of the Black women of South Africa who live under the policies of Apartheid, and also to … to play in the liberation of all…
Mawanda Isaac Mbongela
… of Technology. Exhibition: VUT Exhibition, Museum Africa, Johannesburg 2008. Collection: Vaal University Of …
PlaceGreen Point
… of betting has found its way to the farthest extremity of Africa, and on Green Point large sums are said to have been … at Green Point, the first of its kind…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… Mbeki who succeeded Mandela as the president of South Africa also failed to secure their release. In 2006 all three … on humanitarian grounds. Smith returned…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… Society prize. In 1929 Van der Poel returned to South Africa and declined a position at UCT as lecturer for a post … 1951). Jean van der Poel, 'Native…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… century, it was only after the 1860s that southern Africa had a relatively large Indian population. In Natal of … However, regardless of where Indians…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… fellow Africans and friends, Today, just two days before Africa Day, we celebrate our African identity, and our pride … our people, as well as many freedom…
Krystal Kruger
… Born in Kenya on the 20th May 1988, came to South Africa for high school, then decided to study Fine Art at …
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… the combination of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa (AACSA) and Minorco. The new company was listed in … it also lists on the JSE Securities…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk knew of illegal operations by the … any illegal operations by his…
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… town near Howick, Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… any gathering at any place within the Union of South Africa or the area South West Africa, for a period of two years. However, Sisulu defied the …
EventFormer National Public Prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka is born
… political activist and a lawyer. In 1998 he became South Africa's first National Director of Public Prosecutions. … 1985, he completed his LLB through the…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing … needed to take in order to halt what was…
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… which struck the Southern African countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique was continuing to … dead in Zimbabwe and twenty nine in…
EventThe first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken
… The first airmail ever in South Africa took place on 27 December 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew … meant that Muizenberg post office became the first in Africa…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… the Fourth South African Corps during World War 2 in North Africa. He then returned to South Africa and became Managing Director of the Corporation in … The…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… eventually captured during the British campaign in East Africa during the First World War and allowed to live in …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… the rubric of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa). In the tricameral parliament, the NP began to woo …
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… This iconic, 87 436-seater is the largest Venue in South Africa, and the Country’s proud Global Colossal located in ' … the Final, of the 2010 FIFA World Cup…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… after complaining of demeaning treatment by South Africa. The South African investigators concluded that the … After the first democratic elections were held…