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EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… Indian Representation Act (Act 28 of 1946) was introduced on 15 March 1946 and passed in June 1946. This prevented … certain restricted areas. In return for…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… included his support for economic sanctions to be imposed on South Africa. While many European countries had boycotted … to Ronald Reagan's actions, Desmond…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… and Walter Sisulu.The first guerilla attack was launched on 16 December 1961. The headquarters of MK, located in … targeting mostly military and…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… the country to be trained as an Umkhonto We Sizwe soldier. On 11 June 1977 Mahlangu and others returned to South Africa, … determined to assist in the…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… of its Arab neighbors. The official agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C. by Israeli Prime … Bank and Gaza Strip, but virtually no…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… were no positive results, except an announcement by Smith on 24 September that his government had accepted Kissinger's … Mozambique and Botswana) would only…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… On 14 May 1992, Nelson Mandela, leader of the African … was subjected to harsh criticism and utterances verging on libel, due to the position he took in…
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… On this day Sergeant Jonas de la Guerre left the Cape to … Wagenaer, Commander at the Cape. De la Guerre went on this expedition in 1663 with Pieter van…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… that CODESA failed to resolve. An interim constitution on how the country would be governed had to be written and … comply with the thirty-four principles…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… On 20 September 1915 a new battalion consisting of Cape … view of being dispatched to East Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… and Irma Stern. He read as much literature as possible on European Art and also about African Art exhibited in … African Art had a very significant and…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… end of 1905, when government introduced a new £1 poll tax on top of existing hut and dog taxes. After the Second … Most African people lived off the land as…
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… an official of the British colonial administration, went on a voyage to South Africa to evaluate the market for … to pay excessive landing rates and heavy…
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… at the age of fourteen, a happening that set my life on a path to prison, exile and finally return to South … the event was a cycle ride round the streets of…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Tshombe led the Congo province of Katanga into secession on 23 December 1961. Tshombe was born in 1919 in the southern … Kolwezi and then quickly surrendered…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… for a Port Shepstone sugar mill, wrote to the Protector on 7 September 1907 asking for help in locating his wife and … told him that his wife had been sent…
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… Ghana to our Continent, the late Kwame Nkrumah, bestowed on you and us and all successor generations. You will remember that as he looked back on that…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… service of Cde. Esau, and that his sermon was based on the instruction that Joseph gave to his people, that when … a long time and even lament that some in…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… the performance and trajectory of the economy and the lives of the previously disadvantaged, is whether the Party … National Congress (ANC) government with a…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 6: Towards social change
… Report of the Social Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society focusing on social change and ethnic politics in apartheid South ……
ArchiveThe international situation
… of the Non-European Movement in Pietermaritzburg, on the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This paper outlines the … Both Colonialism and Imperialism are discussed…
Freedom and state security in the South African plural society
… with deep racial and cultural cleavages. The discussion on state security and state legislation and its effect on freedom, as well as racial divisions are an…
ArchiveThe Plural society in Africa
… pluralism in Africa. The social and political impact on Africa, its development and on its society, is obviously noted from the existing …
ArchiveGroup conflicts and race prejudice
… Hoernle Memorial Lecture in which there is discussion on the topic of race prejudices in South Africa and the impact it has on group conflicts and further…
PlaceWandel and Barnet Streets, Gardens
… served as an out-building of the Von Breda Homestead, on the Farm Oranjezicht, and as such probably dates from the … was declared a National Monument under…
PlacePoswohl Synagogue, Mooi Street, Johannesburg
… from Poswohl, in Lithuania. Its cornerstone was laid on 24 August 1921 and today stands as a memorial to a … was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
EventThe ship São José is wrecked
… grounded in Camps Bay, Cape, with nearly 500 slaves on board. The ship was totally wrecked and about 200 slaves … along the Cape coast. About 1300 ships have…
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
… process of the Department of Defence, became effective on 1 January 1999. The law, assented to on 20 October 1998, enabled the Labour Court to act as a …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… Groenewald was acquitted by the Durban Supreme Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha Massacre. The … children, were killed and several injured…
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… The strike by mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, also known as the Rand Revolt, ended on March 18 1922. The rebellion was a response by White …