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EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… that the first detainees were held under the 90-day law on the 10 May 1963; other sources say that it was on 1 May 1963. Nevertheless, between May 1963 and…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… professional soccer was introduced to South Africa when, on 11 May 1959, the National Football League (NFL) was … African Football Association (SAFA) was…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… On 5 June 1981, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention … the results of a new study presented at the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… internal struggle by placing trained ANC guerrillas back on South African soil. The planners of the campaign wanted to … read Nicole van Driel's mini-thesis…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… On 20 March 1993, South African artist and musician Gerard … Les Editions Musicales, and Sekoto played piano and sang on several records. He composed 29…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… the Netherlands and accompanied the Huguenots to the Cape on 29 August 1688, by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords … later led the deputation to Governor Simon…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… police in Ressano Garcia. It was alleged that McBride was on a fact-finding mission regarding allegations of gun … McBride's complicity in the illegal arms…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… Boutros Boutros Ghali was born in Egypt on 14 November 1922 into a prominent Coptic Christian family. … term in office. The United States vetoed his…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… agree that it was in 1913. One* source mentions that on 28 May 1913 a mass meeting of women was held in Waaihoek … to fit in if we assume that the protest…
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… A Case Study in Futility - Chapter 4 The Final Prize: On All Fronts - Chapter 5 The Final Prize: A Spiral of Trials … with the Special Branch - Chapter 15…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… On 27 November 1987, Namibian artist John Ndevasia Muafangejo … Windhoek. He was 44 years old. Muafangejo was born on 5 October 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi,…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… Also known as the Bloemfontein Fort. On 3 February 1848 the British declared the Orange River … consisting of trenches and sangars, to be constructed on a…
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… On 8 February 1996 an Africa Air Antonov 32 cargo plane … The Democratic Republic of Congo). The plane, allegedly on its way to deliver supplies to Jonas…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… On 1 September 1969, Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya … capital of Tripoli by road due to an air embargo imposed on Libya by the United Nations. In 1999…
I B Tabata, President, Unity Movement of South Africa: a biographical note
… Biographical background on I B Tabata. …
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… holiday for the Soviet people and an historic date on the world political calendar. We would like today to … in all these endeavours and are certain that…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… contested article of the treaty stated, depending on whether it was read in Italian or Amharic, that Ethiopia’s … at Adwa. The victory was, by all accounts,…
PlaceNorthern Cape
… radius of their respective sites and prepare strategies on how to address the needs of the community's. What has been … the Department of Energy (DOE) has…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… Second:- Has your group formulated a program or platform on its views'? If you have such, will you kindly let us have … the Communist International? Would…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… at Bloemfontein. After frank and friendly deliberations on questions affecting all Non-Europeans in the conference … of "trusteeship", of all constitutional…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur … of the Cape Law Society in Kimberley, he spoke out on the Legal Practice…
Apartheid destabilisation: Pretorias strateg
… ANC booklet on apartheid destabilisation. …
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… explosions late last month. A soldier was slightly wounded on Thursday when an army troop carrier set off a land mine … television cameraman who was shot in…
Directive concerning the nature of the forthcoming ANC consultative conference in Morogoro by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1969
… Since the banning of the African National Congress on April, 1960, three conferences which were in the nature of … various offices were called to Dar to…
Directive Concerning the Nature of the Forthcoming ANC Consultative Conference in Morogoro by O. R. Tambo, March 1969
… Since the banning of the African National Congress on April, 1960, three conferences which were in the nature of … various offices were called to Dar to…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… schools. Most of the debate around the report has focused on its main recommendation – to make history compulsory in … training teachers. I was involved in a…
PlaceObservatory
… friend, philosophy or self-produced poem. Observatory is on all the main public transport routes and is less than six … the night sky through the McClean and…
World War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… On 4 June 1940, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk … of men stranded at Dunkirk, the British Admiralty called on all British citizens in possession…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… the oppositionists themselves. BLIND TO CONGRESS RACIALISM On the question of the elections their attitude is largely … this matter is dealt with first the…
Albany Black Sash: Court researchers monthly
… Report back on death row prisoners …