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EventIdi Amin Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda
… leave the country. Almost three months later, Amin went to hiding after being wounded following an assassination … were grabbed and taken out into the…
EventWife of detained Nigerian president is killed
… her, but her personal assistant Michael Adeshina managed to escape. He was taken to police station in the hope that he would be able to help in the…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… Nations General Assembly declared 26 August, ‘Namibia Day’ to commemorate the gallant struggle of the Namibian people … Germany in the figure of Samuel…
EventThe inquest into the death in detention of Dr. Neil Aggett is adjourned
… withheld statements by Dr. Aggett. The police claimed to have done so because the statements contained secret information relating to the South African…
EventMannetjies Coetzer is killed by a crocodile in the Kunene River
… Mannetjie Coetzer and his family had gone to the Kunene River in Namibia on a trip that they had … crocodiles. Mannetjie and his brother Lucas made their way…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… Committee of Black Trade Unions. Initially it appeared to be more conservative than the other organisations which … were emerging during the same period…
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… attempts were precipitated by Nkrumah’s announcement to ban opposition parties in 1960. Consequently opposition to his governance grew and led to several…
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
… This was the first piece of legislation introduced to support the government’s policy of separate development. … Tribal Authorities were set up and positions…
Fosatu Worker News
… the strength of workers united in their determination to obtain better wages, shorter working hours and basic worker rights. Boycotts and strikes to protest…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… philosophy of this publication was that it was necessary to understand society in order to change it; in line with this thinking the public was invited to…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon the site. This was opened on 17 … by all accounts was considered by citizens…
ArchiveWorkers Library Launch 22 OCtober 1988 Tape
… Speeches and cultural performance to launch the Workers Library and to explain how the Workers library came about and to describe it aims. …
ArchiveStephen Sihewula was the applicant
… Government responses to applications by the Mfengu people to return to their land in the Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area from which …
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… distinctive light signature that instruments were designed to detect from an atmospheric nuclear explosion. Within days, … 5B), was one of a series launched…
EventDusi Canoe Marathon commences
… on 22 December 1951, when eight individuals arranged to canoe from Alexandra Park in Pietermaritzburg to Durban.These eight individuals were Ian Player,…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… town the all white governing Nationalist Party was trying to drum up support for a New Constitution that wanted to exclude the black majority. The right wing…
ArchiveWhere do we stand?: APDUSA and a nation free of race hatred and oppression
… and particularly in the Western province, attempts to split-up the Non-Whites into various groups with their own policeman-chiefs. The discussion goes on to…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… a ministry in Wagenmakersvallei in 1796 and ministered to slaves and to detribalised Khoikhoi people who worked as labourers to settler farmers. In 1820…
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… facility located in Tokai,Cape Town. This prison was meant to host only 3900 inmates but now has 8 900! Today the … the past. Former President Nelson Mandela…
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… and community worker, was born in Durban. She moved to London where she completed her degree in Medicine at the … of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh…
EventNUSAS disbands
… National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and promote…
EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… Close to 20 million lives a year are lost to cardiovascular diseases world wide. It is reported that South Africa loses close to 100 people per day to…
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… Egyptian parliament while he was presenting the proposal to declare war. He was only four months in office when he was assassinated, having come to power in…
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Service and Administration. He has worked tirelessly to eradicate corruption by members of his department who were … of the South African Social Security…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… headquarters in Port Elizabeth, flew a regular service to and from Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Its main object was to fly mail to connect with mail…
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… campaigns were seen as another way of the ANC trying to establish itself on grassroots level, thus positioning … government, though under enormous pressure…
EventRecognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
… the legal position of customary marriages, which were up to the anactment not recognised as valid marriages before the … the system's polygamous nature. The…
EventCrime statistics released
… This marks a 7% reduction, a big improvement, as compared to 1994. National Police Commissioner George Fivaz warned earlier that unless more funding was…
EventChief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies
… Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, died on the farm Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and was buried at Wallmansthal. … He succeeded his father as captain and…