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EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… he was dismissed for his support of Ogani autonomy. Keen to promote the interests his minority group in Nigeria, Saro … issue faced by the Ogani people, that…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… Force’s (SADF) largest airborne operations when close to 400 paratroopers were dropped near the town of Cassinga. … armed wing. The bombing was followed by…
Introduction
… way in which satyagraha campaign unfolded from 1906 to 1914. Gandhi, the man at the centre of the movement, … the commitment of the Indians, who took Gandhi…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… as that provided for white students. Police used teargas to disperse the crowd and students started throwing stones in … stoned and set alight and two white…
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… Region, 9 January 2015 © the artist Margaret returned to Namibia, the country of her birth and upbringing, in 2008 to live in Swakopmund on the edge of the…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… the granting of Casino licenses , establishing an agency to do this called the Gambling Board. The bid documents … Reef City ), put in a bid that included…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… Square. However, not long afterwards they were obliged to look for an alternative venue, presumably because the … the newly-built church hall on the 4th…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
… A Police spokesman reported that he was not the first man to be found killed near the squatter camp. He mentioned that this incident could be related to what…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… (1927-1978) who was Secretary-General of the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St. Peter's … first African…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… threat of forced removal in the Transvaal province access to information about other communities in similar situations, … communities. In monitoring forced…
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
… The first Indian people in South Africa are reported to have arrived on board the Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The…
EventMarie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch
… as a lecturer at the Paarl Teachers’ College. Vogts moved to Pretoria after meeting her husband, Bernard Vogts. In her … After her husband’s death, Vogts…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… the run from the police. In 1977 Winnie Mandela was banned to Brandfort in the Orange Free State for eight years. Zindzi … her mother. This experience…
EventSAFCA distances itself from boycott of South African goods
… African Consumers Association (SACA), which, according to reports, was supporting the boycott of South African … said; "We are an organisation which helps…
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… Patrick Duncan, died in Pretoria at the age of 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private secretary in … 1907. After a temporary residence in…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided to leave Lesotho voluntarily. Most of the refugees belonged to various liberation movements banned…
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… in political activities. The order restricted him to the Pretoria magisterial district. Since he could not return to his home in Barberton, Mkhatshwa was…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which was created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment … renounced its racial discrimination…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… devices. South Africa had initiated this programme to deter what it considered a major Soviet threat to its sovereignty. This also meant that these weapons…
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Sick-comforter Pieter van der Stael was the first teacher. To reward pupils (mainly adults) for their presence, they … and two inches of tobacco. The aim of…
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… stressed that being open about HIV/Aids was the only way to stop people "regarding it as an extraordinary thing for which people go to hell and not to heaven…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
… was charged with treason for allegedly plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Charges against … the country's 2002 elections, which he…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… and tourism in the Government of National Unity, to discuss the formation of a new political movement. Botha … accusing a top party official of corruption,…
EventFrancois Botha wins International Boxing Federation (IBF) title
… victory in a split decision against Germany's Axel Schulz to win the International Boxing FederationWorld Heavyweight Championship. Previous to the fight,…
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
… In 1963, the Security Council called upon states to stop the sale of arms to South Africa, and repeated the call in 1970 and again in … 281 (1970) was…
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… after being detained. Dipale was the forty-seventh person to die in detention. The Internal Security Act authorised the minister of justice to detain persons…
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… a period of 24 hours around the World .The objective is to encourage smokers to stop smoking altogether. The theme for World No Tobacco … smoking were…
EventA ferry carrying 200 passengers capsizes near the coastal town of Robersport in Northwest Liberia
… A ferry carrying close to 200 passengers capsized in Robersport, Liberia on 14 … that the cause of the accident could be attributed to two reasons: The ferry…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education
… that devastated Africa. However, it is equally important to highlight the various ways in which Africans shaped colonialism. This is not to deny the negative…
A Place of Freedom
… segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed to a friend: For a self-respecting…