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EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown . She was one of six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and his wife, Frances ……
EventThe SA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster announces that the Department of Information was being disbanded
… Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster announces that the Department of Information was being disbanded and replaced by a Bureau … 1 July 1978, to be replaced by Dr…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 … the world over. This is the order to our leaders;…
Cedric Nunn
… change that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa'. Born in 1957 in Nongoma, KwaZulu, and raised in … my initial impetus being to document…
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 National Congress, was subjected to harsh … hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, awarded to him by the state of…
ArchiveStatement issued by the Council and Staff of the Federal Theological Seminary, Alice, Cape Province
… article containing a statement from the Council and Staff of the Federal Theological Seminary about the request of the University of Fort Hare to purchase…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… before it became public. Terre'Blanche viewed the end of Apartheid in 1990 as the beginning of communism and threatened then President F.W. de Klerk with…
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… During the height of the Mau Mau Uprising , Sir Evelyn Baring, colonial governor of Kenya , introduced the death penalty for anyone who organised the taking…
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… Africa in May 1897. In South Africa he became governor of the Cape. The cape was under British rule, as opposed to … led by State President Paul Kruger…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Walter Sisulu, Volume 20
… Extract of evidence from Walter Max Elliot Sisulu, charged with 2 counts of sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge…
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… The second plenary session of the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA II) … multi party talks in South Africa, including the setting of a date to…
EventSoweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged with negligent and drunken driving
… Soweto’s assistant chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga, was arrested and charged with two counts of reckless and/or negligent driving and one of drunken…
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… In his speech during the opening of the first Legislative session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly, President Charles … said that the Transkei now has an…
EventJan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, dies in Chiswick, London
… the company that has come to be known as the father of all publishing companies - JC Juta &Co. The Juta Company … won the right to supply reference books to…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… The National Policy Conference of the ANC has resumed its third day and is proceeding … will complete their sessions at 12:30. The closed session of plenary…
ArchiveMemorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN Decolonisation Committee
… Memorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN Decolonisation Committee. Covers the atrocities of apartheid and calls for…
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16…
EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… fake Ivorian driver's license. He was released on bail of R2 000. At the end of February, Chweneyagae, who portrayed a gangster in Gavin Hood's film Tsotsi,…
ArchiveThe Attitude of Coloured People Today: A paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1976
… The Attitude of Coloured People Today- A paper presented at the Black Sash … March 1976 discussing Apartheid, the vote, Representation of Natives Act,…
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
… Steve Biko died naked and unattended on the cement floor of a cell in a Pretoria prison hospital after it had been established that he had suffered some kind…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, Volume 26
… Extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, Volume 25
… Extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Ahmed Kathrada, Volume 24
… Extract of evidence from Ahmed Mahomed Kathrada, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 16
… Extract of continuing evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 15
… Extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet,…
ArchiveStatement of the Controversy between the South African and Namibian Government regarding the Walvis Bay
… Government regarding the Walvis Bay as a historically part of Namibia as much as the Pretoria Regime hold no legtimate … to Namibia which it had occupied and…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… in Richmond, Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of complications from AIDS after contracting HIV from a blood … to visit South Africa in 1973. This…
EventInternational Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education
… in countries all over the world about the high levels of illiteracy. Projects and activities that promote literacy … a short statement relevant to routine…
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government’s announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… cancelled the South African government's announcement of 18 June 1982 concerning the repossession of the Ingwavuma region, KwaZulu. The cancelation was done…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… 1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins … whom had spent ten hours daily in assisting the…