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ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… in Marikana. Nearly three years later, on the afternoon of June 25 2015, with no warning to the families of those … forensic investigations confirmed. The…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist who fell from the 10th…
EventApartheid minister of Law and Order opposes White radicalism in the South African police force
… The minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) would be tolerated ……
ArchiveChurch and State relations: the story of Bophuthatswana and its independence from 1977 to 1994
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Theology in the subject History at the University of South Africa. Abstract: This thesis is…
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… On 4 October 1929 the Table Mountain cableway, one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, was … The official ceremony was opened by the…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the South African Police (SAP), policewomen were enlisted as 'full members of the force'. Two white…
Event“Maberete” strike ends more than a decade of labour broking at the South African Post Office
… (SAPO) to be employed directly. This constituted one of the few major victories in the working class’s fight against all forms of third party employment. In…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, was ordained as an…
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the … from two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… the country. The unrest was a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. Black people resented Afrikaans because it was seen as…
ArchiveSummary notes of meetings between South Africa and Angola: Paris, 28 and 29 November 1981
… Minutes of meetings between representatives of the South African Government and representatives of the Angolan Government to discuss the implementation of ……
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… On 28 October 1971, the death of anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol, was officially … thirty year old teacher at the Roodepoort School and one of nineteen…
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… The most decisive battle of the Matabele War of 1893 was fought between the Matabele Warriors (Ndebele), under the leadership of Lobengula, and the British…
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… Kibira became the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation. The cleric held this … guests. Kibira died on 18 July, 1988 at the…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troop ship carrying the Fifth Battalion of the South African Native Labour Contingent, the … in World War 1 was not…
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… Once part of a vital communications link between Europe and Southern Africa, the RMS Windsor Castle was the last of the Union Castle Line's, "Cape Mail…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… 5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war were exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian … Invasion (Israel, Britain and France). The invasion of Egypt by the three…
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 ……
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…
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…