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Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… say that Africans are accepting fast enough the gospel of service and sacrifice for the general and larger good … dissociate me from him…” This raises an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our … murder squad; the detention of tens of thousands under the State…
PlaceKatlehong
… Katlehong is a township located 35km East of Johannesburg and South of Germiston between two other … were expounding Black Consciousness as a riposte to the…
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…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… 1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family … ‘The Indispensable Work of a Teacher’…
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
… South Africa's Strategy of Creating Client States The strategic objective of the South African racists with regard to the African … prepared for service in…
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…
Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights - The Women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954 - 2010 by Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen
… 6: Bake, Jumble and Trust. Chapter 7: In the Family of Humanity . Chapter 8: Haven of our Dreams. Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index … Modernity &…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa’s northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
… Minister of Defence, PW Botha disclosed that South Africa's northern … The statement by P.W. Botha regarding the acquisition of advanced radar and navigation…
EventThe UN is informed by the United States that it will suspend sale of arms to South Africa.
… Nations (UN) on 7 August, 1963 that it would suspend sales of arms to South Africa. The Security Council adopted … 181 calling upon all states to cease the…
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… often garnered controversy especially in her depiction of Black people. Stern died in 1966 and her home in Cape Town … record five times, with the latest…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… in planning and implementing the successful escape of the four detainees but a massive manhunt and police … was later based in New Delhi as the Asian…
EventPatrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
… Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal. … Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime…