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EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… and Tom Langley from parliament on the 21 February 1983. It was not clear whether the Herstigte Nasionale Party …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Force headquarters in Church Street, Pretoria on May 20 1983 resulted in injury of civilians. The government …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… its adherence to BC doctrine reflected the process of its birth. According to Nkoane who was elected interim president, … exist at all campuses" ( AZASO…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… a protest on the steps of St George’s Cathedral led to the birth of the Treatment Action Campaign, which went on to make …
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… collective efforts that all our people put to ensure the birth of democracy. In the same measure, we continue to value …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… for nation-building, is culture. Our country has given birth to many outstanding artists, musicians, writers and …
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 July 1983. Newington Road is found in one of the most historic …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… 1982 attack on the Koeberg nuclear power plant, and the 1983 Church Street bombing in which 19 people were killed. MK …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… deployed to townships to quell anti-apartheid action.In 1983, the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) was formed to end …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… and a play, were published in 1975 and re-issued in 1983 and 1994. Much of Jonker's early writing related to the …
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… near King Williams Town. [1] The obscurity around his birth reflects how mysterious Johnny Dyani was and how little … at the Home Office in King Williams…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… journalist, writer and activist. 1945 Evelyn Mandela gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named Tembi. They … born in King Williams Town, Eastern…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… hence decorated, until approximately two years after the birth of a woman's first child. Thus wall decoration is … mother, head of homestead and responsible…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in August 1983, this pre-eminence was sealed, and the Black … but banned for five years, saw his banning…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 6 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983 (Act 110 of 1983), and section 69 of the Prisons Act, 1959 (Act 8 of …
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… Strong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF Formed in 1983 as a conglomeration of political, civic, church, student … former American President George H.W…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 and the birth of our new Constitution. Human Rights and the Bill of …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… himself, not a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.” (Morris: 2004). As a result of this Act, the majority …
Islam
… it is a quieter holiday unlike some of the others. The Birth of the Prophet The prophet Muhammad is believed to have …
The girl child
… rates among girls. Many girls in South Africa give birth during their teenage years, girls who are neither …
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… the family, the division of society into classes, and the birth of the state, are but further advances in the process … the question - what are the driving…
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 July 1983. The first railway line connected Bloemfontein to Cape …
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 October 1983. As an academic training hospital, the OVAH is expected …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… this was the new tricameral South African Constitution of 1983, which continued to exclude all South African Blacks …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… Albertina Sisulu and Helen Joseph. The UDF was launched in 1983, and began its work by promoting protests and boycotts …
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… She wrote of this experience in Die swart kombuis. In 1983 Cussons returned to South Africa. Cussons' poetry works …
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
… opened in South Africa after 1994. Construction started in 1983 and the first of its six units was placed in Commercial … opened in South Africa after 1994…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… Congress holds its 44th annual conference in Bloemfontein. 1983 A railway line 1km from Bloemfontein is maliciously …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… Mmbwa Dza Muvhuso, Naledzani Bernard Rasila; Awaiting Birth, Ethelwyn Rebelo; Three Poems, Essop Patel; The Poem is …
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… Yusuf ['Abidin Tadia Tjoessoep] was born in 1626 of noble birth in Gowa in the East Indies. He fought alongside and …