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EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections resulted…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… the third day of an operation aimed removing an estimated 26,000 squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the …
EventThe Chernobyl computer virus damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world
… On 26 April 1999, the CIH computer virus infected a large number …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… of Trade Unions, and the ANC to defuse the situation. On 26 July 1946, he wrote to all the members of the Natives … Xuma’s movements during his stay in the…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… and worker movements of the period between, roughly, 1968 and 1973 have not yet found much attention in the …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… United States officially acknowledges the MPLA government. 26 September 1993 The US issues Executive Order 12865, …
EPILOGUE
Dear Mr De Klerk I acknowledge receipt of your reply dated 2nd July, 1992. It is unfortunate that your reply has not addressed the issues I raised in my…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… basis for the majority of protest, especially before 1968. Defined by Principal T.B. Davie in the 1950s as the … thorn in the side of the SRC throughout this…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
… a variety of reasons stand aloof from student politics (1968:351-52). Soares comments that "political participation … on the political roles... of university…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… 80% of the world’s HIV infected patients, whilst a further 26 million Africans have died as a result of AIDS. [lxxxix] … Goals are unfair to Africa,” World…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon announced reception of 26 councillors. In Cape Town unicity the African National …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… team expedition, which had reached the summit on 26 May 2003. Back in South Africa, he told journalists at an … Vilane, first Black African to reach Mount…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… On 26 October 2014, Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper … (2014): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/south-africa-goalkeeper-senzo-meyiwa…
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… in Liberia’s history, military rule over the country. On 26 April 2012, Taylor was found guilty by the Special Court …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… minorities to the British, uniting the local people. On 26 January 1952 King Farouk declared Martial Law and … 2014]|Bobby-Evans, A., This day in African…
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… for signature on 10 April 1972 and put into effect on 26 March 1975. This treaty is regarded as the first …
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… On 26 February 1915, Elisabeth Eybers was born in Klerksdorp, in …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… Howard Hill of Sheba. Hill, Howard Born: 15 Feb 1894 Died: 26 Feb 1895 Note: Howard Hill Child of Agnes and Howard Hill … Note: Killed in an accident on the…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… remained the Supreme Court of Griqualand West until 1968 when it moved to its present position in the Civic …
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… strong commitment to the policy of apartheid, on 23 August 1968 John Vorster Square, a police headquarters in …
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… to time to the various Buildings in the Darbar. However in 1968 tragedy struck the Darbar. It was destroyed by …
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… Coal Oil and Gas Corporation) was formed and registered on 26 September 1950. The company has developed world-leading …
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… the British East Africa Company. They signed a treaty on 26 December 1890. The British then backed Mwanga as he took …
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… Nine months after the Lari Massacre of 26 March 1953, twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen were sentenced to …
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… 000 people from all over the country, was to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during the Anglo-Boer War …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… 1 1 386 289 27 8 Age Groups 18 to 19 years 20 to 25 years 26 to 30 years 31 to 35 years 36 to 40 years 41 to 45 years … 3 Medical Students 2 Newspaper Boys 6…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… the NEUM was launched in the City Hall of Cape Town on 26 January 1944. This was followed by many meetings all over …
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… empire that would rule all of Africa. Rhodes died on 26 March 1902. …
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… status at the UN changed to a single member state on 26 April 1964. Subsequently, on 1 December 1964 the two …
EventHunting is prohibited in the area that is now the Kruger National Park
… On the 26 March 1898, a proclamation was published in the Official …