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EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… Police, or Special Branch, were given the authority to arrest anyone they suspected of involvement in an act against the State, and to hold them…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… and the emergency regulations in the country. The decision to meet the President came after a heated debate during the … fruits and those who believed that…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… F. W. de Klerk had presented the constitutional proposal to a federal party congress in Bloemfontein, stating that the proposal demonstrated the party's…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Africa entered the civil war by providing SADF troops to fight alongside UNITA. This was in an attempt to counter the spread of Communism in southern Africa,…
Introduction
… and soon afterwards in the Orange Free State and Cape, to restrict the further entry of free Indians. Exclusion was considered as the easiest alternative…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… the President. Declared a museum in 1936, it was restored to its original form. It was one of the first houses to use electricity and had one of the first…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
… free South Africa, full franchise rights must be extended to all sections of the South African people, and to this end this Joint Meeting pledges the fullest…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. As the easiest link to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans, the canal … the time, shares in the canal operating…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where they were massacred, during a revolt against the British. Hope was lured to…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Durban 82 The Jamiatul Ulama Natal was founded in 1950 to cater for the religious and spiritual needs of the Muslims. The aims and objectives of the Jamiat…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… figure rolled into one — someone who contributed immensely to the person I am today, both professionally and socially. A … who will say the same about him…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being … published on her 81st birthday and is a…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
PlaceCarmel, George
… In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was … the division of Oudtshoorn, and its name was…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… who was a migrant labourer in the South African mines to South Africa. In 1941 he went to Adams College in Natal and continued to complete his high School…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… Dutch farmers , emigrating from the Cape , began to spill over the Kahlamba or Drakensberg . Fearing that … Napier , Governor of the Cape sent a small…
Introduction
… Pachai The first set of documents in Part II relates to the legacy bequeathed by the Smuts-Gandhi Agreement and … parties, wearied by the long drawn-out…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… (VOC) from the Netherlands. Sailing ships on their way to India could stop to rest, do repairs and restock on supplies. This trading … for the DEIC, but…
PlaceBerg River
… The Great Berg river used to be navigable for a distance of about 45 km from its mouth and, during the 1880's, it was accessible to a variety of Schooners…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… The Government and the ANC have again committed themselves to the Groote Schuur Minute. 2. The final report of the … as amended, was accepted by both parties…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… be truly free while others were oppressed, India came to our aid when the rest of the world stood by or gave succour to our oppressors. Even before India had…
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
… constituted group in April 1934, has instructed me to get into touch with the Militant, with a view to affiliating our group to the Fourth International.'"…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… land rights and agrarian reform in Natal. Its main aim was to assist Black rural people whose tenure was insecure and did not have sufficient land to fulfil…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate occasion to recall a little known but significant aspect of relations … set up a Dutch settlement…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried in Cape Town. Legend goes that it … resisted the tyranny but their leaders were…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… Gansbaai is the natural adventure destination, is home to the highest density of Great White Sharks in the World and from July to December, the temporary…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in attempts to solve the civil war in the Congo…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive Resistance launched by the Passive Resistance … (PRC) of Natal and the Transvaal…
EventWorld Refugee Day
… in different ways. It is a special day for the world to make time for the resilience of forcibly displayed people to the entire world. The United National…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… Executive Committee this year, prominent mention is given to the cultural field. How would you briefly define culture … the artist in the struggle? TAMBO:…