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EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… for the attacks was made in June 1979 by members of African National Congress (ANC) armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political …
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… South African Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes (BJ) Vorster …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… On 24 June 1973, South African athlete Danie Malan set a new world record in the …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student organisation, … al, The Black Consciousness Movement as published in South African…
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… from nineteen political organisations and the South African government convened to plan the creation of a … J.A., Schoeman, E. and Andor, L.E. (1999)…
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , former African National Congress Women League president and Deputy …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… to reschedule formal talks between the Government and the African National Congress (ANC). The purpose of these talks …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… On 15 October 1989, five of the eight African National Congress (ANC) long term political prisoners …
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… members whom were detained and severly assaulted by South African Police officers in Stutterheim during the year 1985. … South African Institute of Race…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel Peace Prize winner, … South African History Online, 2011 ‘…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… efforts of journalist John Fairbairn, founder of The South African Commercial Advertiser. After Cape governor Lord …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, painter and activist, received the Hertzog …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… the assassins of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Walus, a Polish immigrant, on …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… and mismanagement in the sport. On Thursday 7 May, South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) s executive committee …
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… the deed of Inkatha vigilantes on the payroll of the South African Defence Force (SADF), however the prosecution did not …
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… On 29 September 1903, John Koenakeefe Mohl, South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, … The neglected tradition: Towards a new…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… was completed in February 1989, just before the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). On 16 February …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… the 19th century. The epidemic affected most of southern African, but it hit the Transvaal and Northern Cape … Africa, Cape Town : NASOU, v. 6, 0-p. 426.|…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… next year will publish a full history of this great South African, as well as histories of the movements and comrades …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… him on death row for nearly 25 years. On 30 June 1994, the African National Congress Government, moved Tsafendas to the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… On 15 April 1978, Motshwareteu entered the annals of South African athletics when he broke the national 5 000m record at … Mathews ''Loop-en-val''…
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… should come down, not only in the future South African state, but also in the struggle that is going to …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first … www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 19 July…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… of the Legislative Assembly. Five months later, the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its … at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 22…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… South African artist George Mnyaluza Pemba (also documented as …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly committed … [Accessed: 26 October 2012]| South African…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… constitutional talks with the ANC and its South African Communist Party allies. … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The congress made him its president for …