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EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… On 6 June 1995 a historic resolution was taken by the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty. The …
PlaceSAAF Memorial and Museum
… for the new design, subject to the conditions advised by the Institute of South African Architects (ISAA). …
PlaceKruger House Museum
… incident. The lions on the verandah were given to Kruger by Barney Barnato, the mining magnate, as a birthday present …
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… plus Medals & exhibits on Medicine & History. Opened by the former Prime Minister of South Africa, Jan Smuts in …
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… in Africa. He was banned and detained several times by the apartheid authorities for his involvement in the …
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… reported as resulting from his wounds, or facing trial by the People's Court. He chose suicide, ending his life in …
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… as head of BOSS. In 1980, the Bureau was replaced by a new intelligence agency, the National Intelligence …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… allegations. It ultimately found that the commando named by Ndimene was at a legitimate clandestine internal (to the …
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his accomplice … Hub, (2009), One who got away tells…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… for Mandela for five years, his succession was seen by many as inevitable. The inauguration coincided with the …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… him to retreat from public life. Mbuli was honoured by being asked to introduce former President Nelson Mandela …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… struggle, Boesak's political career has been marred by controversy. This first incident was in 1990, when he was …
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They …
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… Nonetheless, the labour shortage persisted so that by 1903 there was a shortage of 129,364 unskilled labourers …
PlaceGoshen
… It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and socio-economic inequality. In order to …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… song called ‘The Mission that Failed’ that was performed by the music hall comedians. In 1896, he came to South …
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 35 - "New Tactics Proposed for …
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… were killed in the attack. The Homeland was seized by fear and panic, with the government expecting follow up …
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… role in the conservation of key marine species. To lead by example. …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… Africa's Architectural Masterpiece! Designed and built by Herbert Baker and completed in 1913, the Union Buildings … Africa's Architectural Masterpiece!…
PlaceXamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
… The Farm 'Brakkefontein' had been bought for this purpose by Jan Vorster. A Village soon sprang up around the new … . New Dictionary of South African Place…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that … You missed my pup, Sasha. We seemed to…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… not aware of that at all; until the announcement was made by de Klerk, you know, that he would be freed and you know … the idea of a constitutional…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… but flattering feeling that I was free and surrounded by you, the members of the family and lifelong friends. I … lady in his life? He teased Winnie but…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… you to treat as a matter of urgency. Can you telegram me by return post R300 for my personal requirements. Not only … Her birthday card which I sent to St…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: … and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century South Africa, edited…
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
… holdings once dedicated to agriculture and is surrounded by vast areas of land, that remain semi-rural. The Orchard … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… output materials in the country. The NLSA is mandated by the National Library of South Africa Act 92 of 1998 to …