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EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… after twenty-three years in prison. His release followed a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… activists during his service as commander of a police unit, C10 based at Vlakplaas, a farm outside … also convicted of scores of lesser crimes, from…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EBF) also known as Ebola virus a virus that kills its host by attacking the lining of the … is thought that bats harbour the…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… and Britain from 1899-1902, the British forces, according to the "scorched earth" policy, herded White women and … of the British parliament, resulting in…
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria replied that … in events leading to the founding of the town. Rissik was a principal clerk attached to the…
PlaceEnon
… Enon is a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is named … on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob Glen Cuyler, to serve as a buffer between the…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… SA prime minister and later State President from 1978 to 1989, Pieter Willem Botha, died peacefully at the age of … the George Medi-Clinic two weeks ago,…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. Doyle was a trained medical doctor, who had graduated from Edinburgh University in 1881. Thanks to his…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, after being met with a furious city population in Table Bay. In February 1849, The … set sail from England, with 300…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… nineteen Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members following a tip-off that IFP marchers were planning to attack the building. The Nugent Commission of Inquiry on …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… after the Group Areas Act was first introduced. According to this act, urban areas were to be divided into racially … were created for the exclusive…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group of three men led by Andre Stander, a former police detective. While still a detective,…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… A political activist and Chairman of the South African … died on 19 September, 1983, after having lapsed into a coma. The African National Congress (ANC)…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issued a proclamation in Pretoria which promised to pay those Burghers who remained active with their … pass…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Makgatho chieftaincy at GaMphahlele. Before embarking on a political career, Makgato wa a teacher and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African … in…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… Africa (CPSA). was banned in 1950. On 20 June 1950, only a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act became … of Assembly that the CPSA had disbanded…
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… Australia in 1893. One of nine siblings, he grew up on a farm herding cattle. He won a scholarship to study at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and …
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… sentences escaped from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… In an attempt to organise a broad-based and inter-racial women's … Ray Simons, who was the brain behind the formation of a women's organisation, brought…
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… takeover of the South African Government, has been sold to Union Investment Company Hosken Consolidated Investments … after its Unbanning in 1990, and was…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… of Hastings Banda’s early life, and the man himself seemed a mass of contradictions. He was at one and the same time a quiet, Westernized, doctor, and a…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving…
PlaceRustenburg
… known History of Rustenburg spans from the 15th Century to the post-Apartheid city, and the Town has become the … Hoff and the establishment of the Dutch…
PlaceOld Presidency
… former Republic of the Orange Free State, it was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 January … President Johannes Brand submitted…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … he sought exemption imposed disabilities upon Indians as a group, regardless of…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… Mhlaba In the Coega River near Port Elizabeth , there is a new deepwater port or Harbour. It is a big port through which ships bring products from overseas…
Chronology
… Natal Communist Party headquarters moves from Johannesburg to Cape Town under Moses Kotane as national secretary May … 1940 January , Hertzog's followers…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… January 30, 1981, South African troops attacked and killed a number of ANC refugees in Matola, Mozambique. The following is from an address by Mr. Tambo to…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer … of Goldblatt’s models when he was starting out more than a half century ago, the comparison…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor Mbulayeni Maghuve on Monday … affidavit on behalf of the SABC in its…