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EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… Sultan Mohammed V was revered as a leader by the locals. His exile to Madagascar in 1953 caused great anger, as …
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… a number of insightful and novel negotiation tactics. His overall strategy was to limit the place and time of these …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… came after giving a controversial opening address in his capacity as president of SASO. The address sharply …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… the British aministration, Frederick's brother, Hans, and his neighbour Hendrik Prinsloo, organised an uprising …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… Free State and Lord Gladstone would not agree to withhold his assent to the act because he claimed that it was not …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… office from 1910 to 1919. Botha appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister of Defence. It was under Botha's government …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… the defeat at Bembesi but not before deciding to burn his capital Bulawayo to the ground rather than allow it to be …
PlaceCurry's Post
… is still in existence today, this where George Curry and his rather large extended family lived - he went on to have …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… hands of White Settler farmers. With no means to finance his land reform policies, Mugabe's supporters then went about …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… to be launched in South Africa in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), the …
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… Its provisions are permissive. No one is obliged to have his or her marriage registered. As for those coming from … been removed, it is not necessary for any…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… sets, since that policy can be decisive for the future of his country and his people, more so today than ever before. And from the … policy which, where…
EventSAA flight 295 crashes
The South African Airways Helderberg 747 jet aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. A fire, which started from…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… in South Africa - as far as the ordinary man is concerned, his wage and his salary have more than kept pace with the increase in the … want to make it very…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… male-blinkered records do not mention the women)! Met in his new house, Helmsley Place, in Hof Street, and held a … Abraham Horn, a Rhinelander, who died in…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… the two Governments to hold discussions and report. On his return from UNO he had suggested that passive resistance … Joseph of the liquor and catering trade…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… and, eighteen months later, when Schoeman saw that his efforts had failed, he gazetted it. On May 6th, 1949, I … days later, the Chief Immigration Officer…
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
… a long career as an artist devoted to the study of man in his environment, first in the context of Africa and Rock Art, later, in the interpretation of his…
EventAmichand Rajbansi threatens non-cooperation with the James Commission
… himself. The commission of inquiry revealed that he used his offices to offer his close allies liquor licenses, influence the civil service … against the…
Chapter 13
… was also the General Secretary of the A.N.C.), said in his presidential address: "I believe that it is extremely … the same lines and may welcome a…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… lower status than her husband and she was thus subject to his marital power. This was the position in terms of section … difficult for a wife to persuade the…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… leaders of the ANC had been one of putting pressure on the apartheid regime to make concessions. In the early days of … national-democratic revolution in…
EventDr. Nico Diederichs is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President
… under the Chairmanship of Chief Justice F.L.H. Rumpff. His inaugural ceremony, resembling a religious service, was … led the procession to the Grand Parade…
PlaceGoedverwacht, West Coast of Cape Town
… When the emancipation of the slaves was in sight, he asked his slave,' Maniesa', (originally from Bengal, India ), and … to stay on the farm with him and…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria Museums
COLLABORATION OF PLACES WITH MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES. SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ONLINE (SAHO) UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA MUSEUMS (UP MUSEUMS)"The University of…
PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
… caves with a crew of researchers, ready to excavate. The work began with a tromp around, looking for cave entrances. …
PlaceThesen Island
… prominent timber merchant from Stavanger in Norway . Left his hometown with his wife and nine children, planning to start a new life in … is where they…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… on eight individual occasions, which included representing his country at both the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games. [v] He …
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… With hardly any formal schooling, Johnny Gomas learned his lessons in the struggle and in the broad movement of …