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Briefing on Lekgotla outcomes, 27 January 2015
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a briefing on the outcomes of the NEC Lekgotla being held at … Street, Johanneburg Members of…
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… APDUSA. The NEUM called on the leadership of the Movement to a conference in which the national situation was discussed, and how it had been a plan to gather…
ArchiveThe preliminary nature of the Constitutional document
… Paper covering rights and duties attached to property and rights to education, power-sharing and rights of minorities, … aims, and examining mechanisms for…
Phakamani
… Phakamani, meaning "stand up", reflecting the call to stand up and join the democratic forces inside South … supported the efforts of theologians struggling…
PlaceBoekenhoutfontein, District of Rustenburg
… The earliest structure known to have been erected on this property was a 'Hartbeeshuisie', belonging to farmer: 'Bronkhorst'. In … During this time an…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Congress and other liberation movements, was endorsed. A year later, Strijdom's government was faced with a march by twenty thousand women on August 9th,…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… education for Black pupils. This was the fifth concession to Black demands since the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The … for Blacks leasing houses in townships;…
EventA.W.G. Champion, outspoken opponent of apartheid dies
… politician and businessman Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) Champion died at his home in Chesterville, Durban. He was known as a campaigner for racial…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… that the African National Congress (ANC), received a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the … hotels and billionaire paid the sum of R5 million…
EventThe Star is published in Johannesburg
… under that title on January 6, 1871, and was moved to the Witwatersrand sixteen years later by its owners, … Sheffield. In 1889, the name Eastern Star was…
EventKenyan men arrested as part of the continuing crackdown by British authorities
… authorities against the Mau Mau. Four days later, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at … Mau freedom fighters attacked the area…
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
… Free State Native and Coloured Women's Association sent a petition to Governor-General Gladstone. Women pleaded with him to persuade the Prime Minister and…
SASPU Focus
… SASPU Focus was a feature-orientated publication aimed largely at raising … for Democracy' for 1982. This slogan called on students to understand, and act on…
PlacePrince Edward Islands
… and are politically part of South Africa. The only way to travel to Marion Island is on board a South African research vessel. Research team members remain …
ArchiveCultural considerations for a democratic South African Constitution
… from an in-house seminar on Constitutional guidelines for a democratic South Africa, held in Lusaka, Zambia. Argues … that the formation of constitutional…
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… the aircraft Voortrekker , whose epic flight from London to Cape Town, piloted by Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre van … Ryneveld and Flight Lieutenant Quintin…
EventNelson Mandela’s son, Thembekile is killed in a car accident
… eldest son of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase was killed in a car accident while his father was serving life sentence on Robben Island. Mandela, who always…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… and Swaziland with economic sanctions if they continued to harbour African National Congress (ANC) insurgents. Their refusal to co-operate in this regard…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Dr. Peter A.J. Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry into the Boipatong massacre…
EventSouth African multi-title holder, Brian Mitchell wins the WBA title
… 1986. He defeated Alfredo Layne of Panama in Sun City, on a tenth-round knockout to lift the title. Mitchell managed to defend the title a world record 12…
EventFirst Black Test cricket captain in SA is announced
… as South Africa's first Black Test cricket captain to lead the Protea team in Sri Lanka. This announcement was … first of two Tests between Sri Lanka and…
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… Africans may die from Aids by 2025. The numbers could soar to ninety million, or more than 10% of the continent's … population, if more immediate action wasn…
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… fired randomly at everyone he came across before returning to the scene of the original murder to shoot dead his girlfriend's father, Maxanjana Mbenya. … the…
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… The first American president to visit SA with his wife, President Bill Clinton, arrived … at the Cape Town International Airport. Clinton was on a tour of…
EventArchbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in SA
… A service in Cape Town's St George's Cathedral marked the … the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). According to him, his retirement was a way of off…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. He was arrested and served life … on Robben Island for his involvement in MK…
EventKing Dinuzulu dies
… prison by Prime Minister Gen. Louis Botha, who also saw to it that he received a farm to live on, died on his farm Uitkyk in Middelburg district, … (ed.) …
EventGhana is declared a republic
… became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On 1 July 1960, Ghana was declared a republic with Kwame…
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… The financial Rand, used as a parallel currency to the commercial Rand, was abolished on 10 March 1995. The … in South Africa. The financial Rand usually…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… African choir’s tour, which began in Britain and continued to Canada and the USA was a case in point. While in Britain they performed widely … They are rare,…