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EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… schools and spread across the country. The unrest was a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of … of the oppressor. The government’s…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… 8 August 2006, hundreds of women gathered in Bloemfontein to launch a new national women’s movement, a non-profit organisation called the Progressive Women's…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… Authority (NPA) announced that it would not start a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical … of the Pretoria High Court and the Supreme Court…
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
… Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role of women in the struggle and marked … Some of the survivors of the march…
EventThe railway line between Cape Town and George is opened.
… On 25 September 1907, the railway line connecting George to Cape Town was opened. This railway connection was a significant infrastructural development, as…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… visited England in 1901. He was already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early months of 1902 and died soon … education of young British colonists by…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed by Nelson Mandela and signed into law. The Act provided for the establishment…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… Bildad Mwaganu Kaggia was a nationalist and a freedom fighter. Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the … London as a company quarter-sergeant at a war office…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made a verbal treaty with Gaika, the supposed paramount chief of … between Sir Charles Somerset and Gaika…
Descom Bulletin
… In 1982, Neil Aggett, a Trade Unionist and Medical Doctor became the first white political prisoner to die in the detention under the custody of the security…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… the Pretoria Boys High School in 1909. He left for England to study architecture at the Architectural Association. … Monument in Pretoria is widely…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in … 62 . The Farm, on which Calitzdorp stands, was granted to JJ and MC Calitz in 1831…
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… or "Place of Reeds". Aggeneys the town, originated on a farm of the same name, to service the Black Mountain Mine, which currently employ … to the nearest…
PlaceGanyesa
… The massive North West Province of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural Village…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… lost their lives. During 1961 and 1963, many troops laid to rest in remote cemeteries were reburied at the Diamond … Commander in Chief of the British forces…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of … between the United States and the Soviet…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… was intensified during apartheid by the creation of a separate identity, reinforced by the various apartheid laws that strived to keep racial groups apart…
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… Botha may be considered one of the key factors that led to the resignation of Fanie Botha, Dr Treurnicht, and Tom … and Treurnicht would then contest the…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… Biehl (who was 26 years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… agreed, after preparatory talks in Johannesburg, on a date for the start of negotiations on South Africa's future … multiparty conference would be called…
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… In a shocking move a major European company, Barclays Bank, announced that it … chairman of Barclays, admitted that while the decision to pull out of the…
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… Amelia Head was born on 6 July 1937 in Pietermaritzburg to Bessie Amelia Birch, a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… with the issue of self-determination; and SUBSEQUENT to the discussions between the delegations of the ANC, the … agreement: 1. The parties agree to address,…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… Ladysmith today acts as a commercial centre for the large surrounding farming … Boer War. After it it fell under siege from October 1899 to March 1900. Set…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for photography, in 2006. Lee Friedlander won it the … Center. “Documentary photographer’’…
PlaceStump Memorial, near Doornkop
… the spot where the cottage stood where Jameson surrendered to the Boer forces after the Jameson Raid (previously marked by a cut off tree stump). The stump…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by the recipient ……
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
… of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the interior. Prior to their departure from Cape Town he wrote a manifesto to the Grahamstown…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
… African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, registered a stunning victory against highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… The Internal Security Act gave massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication. This prompted … dealt with the banning of…