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EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… On 04 March 1963, the African National Congress (ANC) leader, Walter … the May 1961 stay-at-home protest. However, on 09 March 1963 he was released on R6000…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… by the apartheid government and during the Rivonia Trail (1963 -1964) and was sentenced to jail. He spent 27 years in … pressure which forced the regime to…
BiographyBheki Cele
… ANC ’s military wing, uMkhonto we-Sizwe (MK) , in Angola [11] . He was smuggled back into the country in 1987 but was … Safety and Security, Mr Bheki Cele. …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… Mvubase appeared in a youth magazine called Wamba , in 1963, when he was only 15 years old. He adopted the pen name …
BiographySydney Kumalo
… Biennales, and managed to travel remarkably widely from 1963 onward. He simply did not acknowledge the strictures of …
BiographyNana Sita
… structures which had been smashed by the regime in 1963-64. The traders, who were severely affected by the Group …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… Cape Town and served as a city council until her death in 1963. Dr Abdullah Abdurahman's political legacy is today a …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… The training was received in Angola and Mozambique and on 11 June 1977 he returned to South Africa as a cadre, heavily … was assigned to a cell with Lucky…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots, a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape, after…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… on his farm Doornkloof, near Irene close to Pretoria, on 11 September 1950, after suffering a coronary thrombosis and …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… (1985), Govan Mbeki (5 November 1987) and Nelson Mandela (11 February 1990). They were arrested on 11 July 1963 when security police raided Liliesleaf Farm…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… also achieved independence from the British Empire in 1963, briefly reverting to a constitutional monarchy under … of such an organisation, and when it was…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… also achieved independence from the British Empire in 1963, briefly reverting to a constitutional monarchy under … of such an organisation, and when it was…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… leadership skills and development, the Rivonia Trial in 1963, and leading South Africa’s peaceful transition. … and music units of the Medu Gaborone Arts…
EventSouth Africa allowed to compete in the Olympics again
After being banned from the Olympic games for 21 years, the Olympics Committee ends it ban on participation by South Africa. This allowed South African…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… 0.10 19 451 0 Federal Party 0.09 17 663 0 Minority Front 0.07 13 433 0 Soccer 0.05 10 575 0 Africa Democratic Movement …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Non-European Unity", Freedom, 4,1, February 1945 Document 11 - Peter Meissenheimer, "Smuts' Anti-Indian Bill: Economic … 1962 Document 73 - “"Revolution?",…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… to go to school. After this incident, at the age of 11, Abrahams finally started school. He was admitted to the … of the newly emerging under-developed world…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… Thokoza. Their fourth child, Mpho, was born in London in 1963. Desmond Tutu and his wife, Leah, and their children, … with his family and church colleagues,…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Chapter 3 University Chapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 … 8 The Rivonia Trial Chapter 9 Emotional…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… Central Police station after bribing a young warder on 11 August 1963. Mannie Brown was involved in planning and implementing … in Francistown, Bechuanaland…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961. By 1963, the headquarters of MK were raided and its leaders were arrested. The Rivionia Trial followed…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
George Teboho Mokgalagadi, with his hair dyed golden, won a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprint in his first international competition at the…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Number qualified 1978 Rand 3 695 27 08 1979 Rand 4500 11 06 1980 Rand 6500 19 06 1981 Rand 7 800 23 13 1982 Rand … roots in the African continent. 1961 Call…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and … after a raid by security police at Lilliesleaf farm on 11 July 1963, the police…
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… ↵ [iv] Golden memories, http://www.sportingpost.co.za/2013/07/gold-cup-history-golden-memores/ (27 July 2013). ↵ … (11 December 2015).|Golden memories,…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… response [Online], available at: anc.org.za/ [Accessed 07 May 2010] …
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… ATKV writing competition Sunday, 20 October, 2013 06:30 – 07:30 - Sunrise reflection at monument 17:30 – 20:00 - …
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… her term ends in October (2016) [xxxv] . AnchorOn August 11, 2016, William Hofmeyr was publically interviewed by the …