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EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution, and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), former State … adopting…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – … Court in Johannesburg on Monday during the first…
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… agricultural sector was hit especially hard, as the lack of demand destroyed prices on commodities that were … the mortgage on their farms and limited their…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how … Africa was divided…
PlaceEmbassy of Azerbaijan, Pretoria
… Azerbaijan's embassy in Pretoria is the sole Azerbaijani representation in South Africa! The Azerbaijani Embassy in … 2) Need information regarding…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is part of the United Nations (UN) program and works alongside its … and other UN partners. The WFP have…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… Drakensberg foothills, Langalibalele- a hereditary chief of the Hlubi- was summonsed to Pietermaritzburg for failure … firearms. The Hlubi had received these…
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
… The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… that the Tamil community was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African nation comprised of…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… in 1937. He was promoted major general on the eve of World War II. In 1941, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was given command of the German troops…
ArchiveComments on the financial allegations contained in the 4th interim report of the Schlebusch/le Grange Commission
… Comments by Finance Officer, elect, of the National Union of South African Students, refuting claims by the Schlebusch Commission of financial irregularities…
The non-governmental organisation Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using expropriation
… Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using expropriation as a part of its land reform programme. The proposal was…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… a minister at Montjoux and then at Embrun. After the edict of Nantes, which forbade the practice of the reformed Huguenot religion, he fled to Zierikzee in ……
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… geologists Michael M. Tice and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally … by South African geologist Nicolas…
EventNigerian terrorist, Henry Okah is found guilty of masterminding two car bombs in Abuja by a South African Judge.
… Henry Okah was the leader of a terrorist group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The group…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the … (SASO) and the Black Community Programmes (BCP). Out of the banning of these…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… region. 1836 Andries Potgieter's arrives in the area north of the Vaal. 1837 Mzilikazi defeated by the Voortrekkers and … The White suburb of Capital Park is…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations mandate. In the years that followed, South Africa … passed resolution 2145 (XXI),…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' came into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel,…
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930 Communist Party of South Africa … S. P. Bunting from the Executive…
ArchiveMemorandum presented by National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations - August 1972
… Official memorandum presented by the National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain … Organisations, including NUSAS (the…
Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) meet in
… Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress … Indian Congress (TIC) meet in Johannesburg. The Presidents of the three…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… the meeting ends in failure. February, The decision of the Natal Indian Association (NIA) executive to cooperate … arrested in July and convicted for…
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
… The town of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province was founded when … there was a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… today has its roots in: (1) the barbarism and injustices of market supremacism, racial supremacism and patriarchy; (2) the inadequacy of liberal democracy; …
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… Hani and others in their struggle to serve the aspirations of ordinary working people and the poor in Southern Africa. The CHI aims to engage in the…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… to venture into South America, but were deterred by a bout of foot and mouth disease. The two of them got jobs at The Cape Times instead. By 1944, Norton was…
ArchiveVerwoerd lets loose terror on All-African Convention and Unity Movement of South Africa: the struggle goes on
… and the Unity Movement on the arrests and bannings of some members of these organisations. … loose terror on All-African Convention and Unity Movement of…
Peter Alroy Charles Hendrickse, ANC politician, member of parliament and Codesa delegate, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape
… Peter Alroy Charles Hendrickse, ANC politician, member of parliament and Codesa delegate, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the son of Alan Hendrickse. …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 1 December 1976
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Curry, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South … Commission of…