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EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Klerk government therefore set up the Harms Commission in Britain in 1990 to investigate these claims. In his …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… to the owners, which they had to collect personally in Britain and was in some cases barely enough to pay for their …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… of Mr RT Caluza, a teacher at the school, visits Great Britain to make phonographic records for His Master's Voice …
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… in Africa followed a route similar to that pursued by Britain towards her colonies. There were differences. France …
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… in the Buffalo River . This was the boundary between what Britain controlled the Natal Province and the Zulu Kingdom- …
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… site of the first stadium in Soweto , officially opened in 1959. For almost 50 years this was a famous home of soccer, …
PlaceSouth African College High School
… a decade-long negotiation, SACS moved to Montebello in 1959, where both the Junior and High Schools now share the …
EventCliff Drysdale, the tennis star is born
… doubles combination, earning themselves the 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1963 South African national titles in the …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… failed. In exile, the Anti Apartheid Movement sprang up in Britain, Holland, Sweden and other countries and put pressure … into exile. The Anti-Apartheid…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… to work for what was called the religious welfare of Britain's richest colonial possession, India. The missionary … of the industrial machine were turning…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… arrested along with 155 others on charges of high treason 1959 Heads the ANC’s Constitutional Commission 1960s 1960 … Freedom Day and to condemn the 600-year…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… this. One can see that already from the soft attitude of Britain towards the apartheid regime in South Africa. "There … about its Rhodesian and South African…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… was the General Secretary of the A-FCWU from 1952 until 1959. In October 1959, the A-FCWU president Mafekeng was banished to the …
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… and oppressed groups, in particular, Africans living in Britain and France. Addressing influential audiences in Britain, Brussels, France, Germany and Russia…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… A year after Ghana gained Independence from Britain under the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah the All African …
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… labour and strengthening ties between Portugal and Britain, improving housing, sanitation and the quality of … (1960), The Unification of South Africa: 1902…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… aggressive diplomatic conflict with Germany. In 1964, Britain released the colony and it became Malawi, with Kamuzu …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… Brand, Kippie Moeketsi, Jonas Gwangwa and Hugh Masekela. 1959 The recording "Tom Hark" by Elias Lerole and His Zigzag Flutes was a hit around the world. In…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… out of wedlock with Olive Mpahlwa named Monwabise Kwanda. 1959 Thabo Mbeki's schooling is interrupted by a student … as it is like home coming of a prodigal…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… a third attempt to organise milling workers is promised. 1959 Chief Albert Luthuli is the guest speaker at the South … the goal of liberation and embrace the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… with Saclifwalla, an Indian, and the first Communist MP in Britain. Dadoo starts to study Marxism and also attends …
PlaceSenegal
… was formed by merging Senegal and the French Soudan in 1959. President Senghor and Prime Minister Mamadou Dia …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… Subsequently Africanists are ejected from the meeting. 1959 4-6 April, An Africanist group who broke away from the …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli …
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… conceptions of politics. We must clearly understand that Britain came to Africa not with the intention of "civilising" … AN IMPERIALISM. In 1901 we saw the…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… to prevent France taking possession of the Dutch colonies. Britain obliged and, as a result, occupied Cape colony in …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Johannesburg and Durban . Tours by professional clubs from Britain added to the enormous excitement, an atmosphere …
Conflict among civic organisations
… Tambo and his girlfriend. After that they proceeded to Britain where they lived in exile. …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… of a national union of students of that magnitude in Britain in 1920. This in turn influenced students in …
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… repression in Southern Africa was to be organised in Britain. The conference and the subsequent SATIS campaign … the power of international solidarity. He…