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EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to collect one million signatures from the public, declaring … By the end of the campaign in October…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… This was clear in his visionary, successful attempts to transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an … more than it sometimes loved him", it is…
PlacePort St. Johns
… over the origin of the Town’s name. Some attribute it to the Portuguese wreckage of the Sao Joao said to have run aground near the mouth of the Umzimvubu…
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
… the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek instructed a Commission, to select a suitable Site for a Town, on the newly-discovered … of the new Township and the tender…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… While the greatest part of the papers relates to Herman Eugene Schoch (1862- 1947), Surveyor General of the Transvaal, there are manuscripts pertaining to…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… upon it. During WWII Italian prisoners of war were used to build Improvements on the estate. One of which, a … illustration. The windmill was functional and…
ArchiveCOSATU Culture Congress NASREC July 1989
… A culture congress to which all federations of COSATUwere invited to perform cultural items dedicated to the congress movement. …
PlaceAkkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape
… was one of the sea vessels, sent from the Netherlands, to find a trade Route to India in 1592. It was captained by Cornelius de Houtman. … Mossel Bay… The…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… 1844 he was ordained a priest and he frequently preached to congregations of up to a 1 000 people. His school provided an education to 100 pupils at a time…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… where he was inspired by the events of 1968, and returned to South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the … His work was forceful and…
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… through a life-changing Christian journey. They seek to serve God by working for Justice and Peace, Respect and learn from all the great faith traditions and…
Grassroots
… as the first of a series of community newspapers designed to give a voice to the 'voiceless' and oppressed peoples of South Africa. … were printed although…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… and the service played a big part in attracting people to the region. According to C.K. Cooke, only two of this type of Concord coach is known to survive in…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… the whole community of nations throughout the world look to us to move the country forward towards a non-racial, non-sexist and fully democratic future; NOW…
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… derived from a Khoi-Khoi word for zebra and is being said to resemble the quagga's call. Scientific research revealed … a team of South Africans have been…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of … choose between his chieftainship and…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… points in the history of the Organisation's existence up to that time. The adoption was precipitated by the victory of the National party and its…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift, where he attended the … attended Maphumulo Junior Secondary…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… the beleaguered Vichy French Forces that were attempting to repulse a combined invasion by British and South African … During the attack on the naval base,…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… is a sign of demonstration against schools' systematised to producing 'good industrial boys' for the powers that be ... We therefore resolve to totally…
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… There was also an ethnic and religious dimension to the split. The Southern states were made up of ethnic … comprised mostly Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani who…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to investigate detainee abuse allegations in ANC camps … Mabandla, found evidence of brutality and…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… on the outskirts of Paarl and was driven the 60 kms to Cape Town by African National Congress'(ANC) Rose Sonto … of supporters. On the balcony of the City…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… hangings by fifteen hours. A huge sigh of relief came to the "Sharpeville Six" after Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee … Mayor Jacob Kuzwayo Dlamini, who was…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… issued that stated, among other things, that all attempts to disrupt the economic development of Southern Africa by … saw this meeting as an attempt by the…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… all executive and legislative powers would be returned to King Moshoeshoe II , who would rule through a military … African National Congress (ANC) were…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… He was an important physician at the time, and contributed to research in the field of parasitology, and the founder of … Manson's theories about the…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… (ANC). During their application Coetzee outlined a plot to bomb ANC offices in London in 1982 with the knowledge of … of the Voortrekkerhoogte Military base…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… as the official language, which prompted 4000 Germans to leave the country. South Africa on the other hand encouraged Afrikaans speaking families to settle…
PlaceReitz
… owned by Hendrik Davel. He sold 6400 hectares of it to Jan Roos who developed an important outspan for transport … of a blacksmith and a few others the need…