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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…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… convictions who would be prepared to return to the scene of their crimes and be photographed. But the plan was not … acclaimed Goldblatt, famed particularly…
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 ……
EventThe SA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster announces that the Department of Information was being disbanded
… Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster announces that the Department of Information was being disbanded and replaced by a Bureau … 1 July 1978, to be replaced by Dr…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventSoweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged with negligent and drunken driving
… Soweto’s assistant chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga, was arrested and charged with two counts of reckless and/or negligent driving and one of drunken…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of … that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… pretended to be a labourer and investigated the conditions of farm workers in Bethal. He wrote the story 'Bethal Today' … legislation and laws such as the…
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…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… and London at Lenin's request and was made a member of the party's central committee in 1912. With Lenin's … blessing he briefly edited Pravda until he was…
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…
EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… fake Ivorian driver's license. He was released on bail of R2 000. At the end of February, Chweneyagae, who portrayed a gangster in Gavin Hood's film Tsotsi,…
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
… Steve Biko died naked and unattended on the cement floor of a cell in a Pretoria prison hospital after it had been established that he had suffered some kind…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, Volume 26
… Extract of evidence from Lionel Bernstein, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, Volume 25
… Extract of evidence from Raymond Mhlabo, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter of the…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Ahmed Kathrada, Volume 24
… Extract of evidence from Ahmed Mahomed Kathrada, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the matter…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… the Franchise , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange … Cape Coloured people were to be…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 16
… Extract of continuing evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 15
… Extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet,…