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PlaceVlakfontein Monument, Roodepoort
… Historical Society, relocated the Vlakfontein Monument from its original location higher up the Ridge to an Area in …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… he had in piles back home. To my horror, I found out from Omar Badsha that in a bout of absent-mindedness he had …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… The journal reflects the detailed efforts of these women from two aspects. The first one being the practical way in …
Grassroots
… was banned. However, it survived many further attacks from the government, going on to help communities start their …
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… Sir Winston Churchill escaped from this Building when, for a time it was used to House …
PlaceBreakwater Prison, near Alfred Docks, Cape Town
… years. It then became a juvenile offenders institution and from 1926 until 1989 a hostel for black dock workers. …
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… Orange Free State pulled up a drill-core laden with ore from nearly 6,000-feet. The Essayists revealed that, based on … Time ‘GOLD: Free State Fiasco,’ from…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… meetings and received about 2 000 boxes of relief goods from the Netherlands. She packed them personally and sent … 2014]| De Wet, H.C., ‘ The De Wet family…
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… with Women’s month. The event consisted of women leaders from government, the corporate sector and civil society. …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… warning signals, rammed the SS Mendi. The SS Mendi sailed from Cape Town on 16 January 1917 en route to La Havre in …
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… Mandela in MK's activities, including notes he made from his readings about guerrilla warfare and a diary he had … Political History: A Chronology of Key…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… of across border abductions in this period, dating from the early 1960s when a number of opposition activists …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… Congress (SAIC) and the Congress of Democrats (COD). Apart from these political organisations, some of the accused were … Anon, (1960), 'Treason trial: More…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… to be a single subspecies of Zebra, but due to pressure from hunting, their ranges have been reduced and two groups … iucnredlist, " Equus Zebra ", from …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… (ANC) called a meeting in Johannesburg. Executives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the African …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… that they could, through persuasion, wring concessions from the White government, it now became a militant …
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
… ANC in 1990, he was among the first ANC leaders to return from exile. After the first democratic elections in 1994, … BBC News, "South Africa's President…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… were unsuccessful; and, apprehension of absentees from the Union Defence Force (UDF). Duties like the … Political History: a chronology of key political…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… 25 years of the founding of the United Democratic Front’ from Nelson Mandela Foundation [online] Available at …
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… projects which was later known as Information Scandal. From Ecuador Rhoodie proceeded to Great Britain where he …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… would leave Cape Town bound for Southampton. The voyage from Southampton took a mere 10 days, and continued on to …
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… On 30 May 1967, Biafra declared itself independent from Nigeria. This region comprised roughly the south-eastern …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… for much research, and she was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Natal and the University of the …
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… that the co-option of discredited and discarded figures from the existing parliament was not non-racialism and the … C.S., (1989), South African Leader…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… evidence of brutality and torture to extract confessions from alleged South African spies and other detainees. The … commission implicates ANC in torture …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent mission of …
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… region of Lower Giuba, while the USC was operating from central regions and in Mogadishu. These clashes resulted … Bobby-Evans, A., This day in African…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… penalties were later commuted to prison sentences, ranging from twenty-five years to life. Reprieve came in 1991 when … Coetzer D. (n.d.), ‘Theresa…
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… skin disease similar to leprosy known as the Mkar disease. From 1968 onwards, Kok published a number of works in which …