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EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
… the fire. Setting trains on fire is not unusual in South Africa. Commuters often use this method to express their …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, with Thabana Ntlenyana the highest peak in the …
EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
… the next morning. The uprising that would change South Africa began the following day. … at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 14 June 2013]| South Africa…
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… not found Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983. …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… part in the historic first democratic elections in South Africa. …
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, …
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… to make people recognise its 'independence' from South Africa. Though the charges were dropped, the Bophuthatswana …
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… for three weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west Africa. On the same day exactly 10 years later, on 25 … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventFraud and Corruption on the rise in SA
… that fraud and corruption were escalating in South Africa. Powell announced that people resort to desperate …
EventF.W. de Klerk delivers his farewell address to Parliament
… Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela, pioneered South Africa into a new democratic dispensation. Click here to read …
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… References: Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. Dr Nnoseng Kuzwayo. …
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… contribution to the betterment of education in South Africa, in particular that of Black people. …
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Commonwealth leaders that included then President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki. The suspension meant that the country …
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to catalogue the stars, nebulae, and other objects of …
EventFour black newspapers are banned by the SA government
… the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A storm of protest …
EventA Pretoria biker is caught doing 284km/h on his Suzuki motorcycle on the R59
… driving have become disturbingly prevalent in South Africa. …
EventThe Transkei Constitution Act is enacted
… to the Transkei within the Republic of South Africa. This was in accordance with the Transkei …
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
… charge of construction of over a hundred bridges in South Africa. It was during the construction of the bridges that he … www.sarada.co.za [Accessed on 29…
Devout domesticity?
… and Organization in the Political Transition in South Africa: A Conceptual Overview 2. Class, Consciousness and …
Black Student Politics
… the conditions for the transition to democracy in South Africa. However, few works on political resistance to …
Emissaries from Russia
… and the statement of the ANC we pointed out that South Africa is on the brink of disaster for which we hold the NP …
EventANC's Nelson Mandela in a historic political rally
… 300 000 in Port Elizabeth in what was described as South Africa's biggest ever political rally. Mandela announced to …
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… settlers, it boasts the highest railway station in South Africa at 2 077 meters above sea level. The town’s cool … is commonly referred to as: ‘ Scotland’s…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
… ANC in particular - that such a storm will not come. South Africa should not again experience conflict based on racial, … Perhaps this is the greatest new…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… to read more about the role of State violence in South Africa. Click here to read about the increase of Inkatha …
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… at development will fail. Through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the African Union's programme, … with a transition from one of the…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… and a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic South Africa. One of your very important qualities that stands out … the unshakeable foundations of what you have…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… need to implement Operation Mayibuye (Operation Come Back Africa) if it were adopted, to advance from sporadic sabotage … envisaged 7 000 guerrilla fighters…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… the governance of a sophisticated country involves. South Africa is not a colony that is now becoming independent; it … breakthrough towards peace. On 31 May…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… and the African Communist, and Mabhida for Angola and East Africa. And equally important, was the demarcation of … was that he integrated the Party's…