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EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… Cloete was born in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 26 August 1978. She began high jumping at the age of 13 when …
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… high treason on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. On 26 January, 1983, the South African government announced at a …
ArchiveEllen Kuzwayo
… Mr Mandela I acknowledge receipt of your memorandum dated 26 June 1992. However, an exchange of memoranda is no …
EventA fire breaks out on Table Mountain after a British tourist allegedly tossed a lit cigarette out of a car window
… On 26 January 2006, a massive fire swept along the lower slopes …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… and disappeared into exile. Nearly a decade later, on the 26 October 1984, Johnson, now known as MK member Tom … was born in Oakdale, Western Cape on the 19…
Desmond Tutu - Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976
… Click to read Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 …
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… subsequent to the application of the Stock Limitation Act (1950) introduced by the state under the pretext of land … Farm workers’ or tenants’ evictions…
ArchiveOur Policy
… Our Policy: editorial in The Guardian, June 29, 1950. Discusses the suppession of Communism Bill …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… African labour history. Sources: Pretoria News, August 26, 2002. Today in History. …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… History Online http://www.cosatu.org.za/shop/ss0406-26.html …
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… the Union parliament passed the Indian Relief Act on 26 June 1914, abolishing the £3 poll tax, recognising …
EventA teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington
… A teacher training college in South Africa opened on 26 January 1896, in Wellington, in the Western Cape, South …
EventJomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted
… came shortly after the Lari massacre that happened on 26 March 1953 where close to 100 people were killed and …
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early …
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
… in Slovakia on 24 August 2007. The team consisted of 26 members with three of the medal winners being from …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… ten years later. The ANC called for a new protest and 26 June 1950 was set aside as a day of mourning for the dead. Once … Group Areas Act and the…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… Pact of 1947, the National Day of Protest of 1950, the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and the Freedom Charter … themselves, could not be denied the entire decade…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… Pact of 1947, the National Day of Protest of 1950, the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and the Freedom Charter … themselves, could not be denied the entire decade…
ArchiveInterview with Marumo Moerane
Oral interview with Marumo Moerane, on his experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
ArchiveInterview with Herby Govinden
Oral interview with Herby Govinden, on his experiences as a student and lecturer at Fort Hare in the 1950s
ArchiveInterview with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Oral interview, conducted in Bloemfontein, with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, on her experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… political. Although it has been on the statute books since 26 June 1986, no opportunity has yet arisen to invoke this … under 'security' legislation has been…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… Dullah Mohamed Omar was born in Observatory, Cape Town on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. After matriculation …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… The 26-year-old Tanzanian, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a prime …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… Africa in One Day International (ODI) matches played from 26 to 30 December against England in Port Elizabeth , South …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections resulted…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… the third day of an operation aimed removing an estimated 26,000 squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the … , [online], Available at www…
EventThe Chernobyl computer virus damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world
… On 26 April 1999, the CIH computer virus infected a large number …
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… the political situation at any given time. On May 1, 1950, eighteen Africans were killed by the police during a … provincial campaign for universal…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Publishers and London: Kliptown Books. Davids, Arthur (1950), "A Critical Analysis of I. B. Tabata's Book - The … Town: Forum Club, reprint . Discussion, 1,…