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EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… The African National Congress (ANC) sent a report on police … to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… The Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 empowered the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… Vorster completed a tour of self governing territories in the Northern Transvaal during which he held talks with leaders of the North Sotho, Tsonga and Venda…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… The South African government was to grant self-government to … new to conflicting claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein…
EventSouth Africa is said to resume its membership of the Commonwealth
… On 31 May 1994, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaouku told reporters at the Commonwealth Headquarters in London, that…
EventDavid Frost wins the South African Open golf championship in Stellenbosch
… won several tournaments throughout his career, including the Gordon’s Gin Challenge (1983), The Nedbank Golf Challenge (1989) and his first South African…
EventAnge-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic is born
… Ange-Félix Patassé was the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of CAR. The…
EventLalla Hirayama, the Japanese-born South African television personality is born
… was born in Hiratsuka, Japan on 10 February 1988. At the age of six, her family immigrated to South Africa. Lalla … presenter, model, dancer and actress.[ii]…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is the only author ever to win the Booker prize twice, but the publicity-shy author avoided attending…
EventKamalesh Sharma delivers a speech at the 2010 Nelson Mandela Africa Lecture
… Secretary General for Common Wealth made a speech during the 2010 Nelson Mandela Lecture held in London. His speech mainly focused on the “The Commonwealth…
ArchiveThis Council of the SACC calls upon all its member churches
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) calls upon all its member churches to participate in the National Day of Prayer for the people of Crossroads…
ArchiveStatement issued by The Black Peoples Convention 11th July 1973
… The statement was isued in reponse to an article in the Daily News dated 4th July 1973. In the article Chief Gatsha Buthelezi makes a derogatory … Statement…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world title, the IBF flyweight title, in September 1991 was against Dave … junior flyweight, went up against Paul…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… Mr. President, The Honourable Heads of State Your Excellencies Honourable … to express my great appreciation to you for affording me the opportunity to speak…
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… Zola Budd and Annette Cowley, could not participate in the Commonwealth Games as athletes for England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… with Generals Jan C Smuts and Louis Botha in Pretoria. The trio was going to discuss about a planned Burghers … this meeting De La Rey was persuaded not to…
The contemporary Black Movement as it has developed from its forerunners
… The discussion revolves around the the gap in student activism between the fifties and the seventies. A generation gap existed in … The contemporary Black…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… Arthur Goldreich will go down in history as one of the rare breeds of revolutionaries that changed the course of South African history. Not only did he ……
ArchiveThe muzzled muse: literature and censorship in South Africa 1963-1985
… A dissertation sumitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,…
EventUniversal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the United Nations
… The UN adopts and proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The day is recognised and celebrated as International Human … Rights Day. For a link…
ArchiveStrategic issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa
… Paper examining reforms introduced by the government and whether they are adequate to initiate change in the country: provision for the legal recognition of…
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves is secretly deported
… On 12 September 1960, the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves was secretly deported through Jan Smuts Airport. The Bishop’s departure did…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
… which has been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes … awareness of a bodily particular that I can…
EventThe South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrates its 10th anniversary
… The South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrated its 10th … democracy on 27 January 2005. Since this celebration, the South African cabinet approved 27…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the African National Congress (ANC) and soon afterwards left … as part of a campaign to boycott…
ArchiveEducation is the key to change in South Africa by G. R. Bozzoli
… In this paper, at the the very outset, Bozolli, has expectations of change in the educational pattern as well as change in attitudes. The … Education is the…
EventPercy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player of the Western Province, is born.
… Springbok and Rugby Union player. Montgomery became the first Springbok to score 800 test points and at one time, was the most capped Springbok player in the…
ArchiveUniversity of the Western Cape, Special Graduation Ceremony, 25 October 1991
… Programme for Oliver Tambo's honorary degree ceremony at the University of the Western Cape, 15 October 1991. Includes the words of the South African…
EventTranskei breaks all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa
… government's decision to break all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa.This included a unilateral withdrawal from the non-aggression pact…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… The author of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The…