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EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… conspire against, incite, or instigate violence in South Africa or other neighbouring countries. The history of the … Bechuanaland and Swaziland and Governor…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… was used to manufacture nuclear weapons by the South Africa government. The history of nuclear energy in South Africa dates back to 1959 when the country's…
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… fight on the side of the Allied powers was won and South Africa declared war on Germany. Approximately 135 000 white South Africans fought the Italians in…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… a Nationalist vote as a vote for a "White South Africa". Although the NP won for the second consecutive term, … 09 June 2010] Chronology of Important Events:…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Bill, establishing a … and was promulgated as Act No 101 of the Republic of South Africa…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… The first issue of South Africa's first daily newspaper, The Cape Times, was published … production ever since. The history of newspapers in South Africa was…
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'
… in Pretoria and Bloemfontein, as part of a plan to remove all restrictions. The '72-hour curfew' imposed on visiting …
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… allegations of gun smuggling from Mozambique into South Africa. McBride's arrest fuelled suspicions held by several … of this matter would assist in…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… Rolihlahla Mandela is hailed as the greatest icon of South Africa’s liberation struggle. Imprisoned in 1964 for his role … and appeals for Mandela’s release…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid , and as a political prisoner of the … was born on 16 September 1939 in…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… excluding the majority of Black South Africans from South Africa proper. The Bantustans would then function as labour reserves for white South Africa. It is…
EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London … war in Angola and the ultimate independence of South West Africa…
EventPresident Mandela addresses the National assembly of Mali
… cultural, and political links between Mali and South Africa. He also thanked the people of Mali for their support … led ANC government to normalise relations…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… lead, and the party that would eventually overthrow South Africa’s old racial order. Plaatje was headed to the U.S. … as a postman, but by 1921 he was well…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… unionist and a socialist. He had links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in Zimbabwe and…
They Killed Dulcie – Podcast series by The Daily Maverick
… Sound Africa · They Killed Dulcie …
EventPretoria receives city status
… became the Administrative Capital of the Union of South Africa which was constituted in 1910 with the merger of the … Thirty years later, in 1961, when the…
EventGerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef
… was to become a source of great mineral wealth for South Africa, and allowed South Africa to settle a large sum of state debt. The discovery of gold also…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… IDASA Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa IMD International Institute for Development Management … and Development Programme RSA Republic…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… Seventy-five souls were said to have died although not all the bodies were ever recovered. The first Tay Bridge, … damage which set off a chain reaction that…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… Bill was being discussed there. The result of the Bill you all know. Owing to the dissolution of Parliament, the details of all these are [so] well known to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… against the people of Mozambique and the people of South Africa, members of the ANC in this city has a lesson for us. … household, every residence occupied…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… and other artefacts from the many conflicts that South Africa has been involved in through the centuries including … War, World War I and II, the conflict in…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for … by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African … the White body of the Football Association of…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… Gandhi started his first newspaper in Durban South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the entire press to … the Satyagraha campaigns. Gandhi and his…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… was the result of the following factors. Firstly, South Africa had been isolated through international trade … failed to combat the ongoing uprisings. Lastly…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous … calling for a just, free and more equitable society for all – whether as political leaders,…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… was a journalist born of Jewish parents who came to South Africa from Eastern Europe. [1] She grew up in a politically … seen-but-unseen hand that…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… movements and the White minority governments in Southern Africa, and seeks to find out to what extent Zambia's commitment to the liberation of Southern…