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EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… being in favour of a Black Nationalist government. Appeals to the United States and Britain to provide military support for the liberation of Rhodesia proved…
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… Prime Minister, Louis Botha was raising an expedition to invade German South West Africa, pro-German Boers raised a … many South African troops were tied…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… the son of Abraham and Alida Sachs-Eban. His parents moved to Great Britain while he was still a child. After graduating … Language and Literature. During…
ArchiveAfrican National Congress statement: International Conference of Trade Unions on sanctions and other actions against the apartheid regime in South Africa
… the apartheid regime in South Africa. Calls for delegates to demand that governments support sanctions, take immediate action to impose sanctions and ask…
ArchiveMeeting between the African National Congress and the University of Natal
… Documents relating to a meeting between the African National Congress and the … the University of Natal Vice-Chancellor, P de V Booysen, to all staff and…
EventVasco da Gama dies
… Portuguese seafarer who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around the southern point of Africa, died on his final voyage to India as Portuguese…
ArchiveNow Cape Town...Now Langa too is burning
… informs University of Cape Town students of a mass meeting to be held in response to the political turmoil that had begun to affect Cape Town. The government…
EventSir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr
… a circuit court (later called the Black Circuit) to investigate alleged murder and maltreatment of Hottentots (Khoi-Khoi) by Whites. Great care was to be…
ArchiveReport on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammanskraal on February 1-2, 1980
… resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammaskraal to discuss forced removals and how if affected people. It is argued in this speech that enforced…
ArchiveThe Comet
… the newspaper for three months because it was a threat to the peace and quiet of the Republic. Ruling was later changed to prevent newspapers changing their…
ArchiveA bill
… A bill to amend the comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 to prohibit United States depository institutions from providing certain financial services to…
ArchiveExtension of University Education Act, Act No 45 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the establishment, maintenance, management and … for non-white persons; for the admission of students to and their instruction at…
ArchiveNative Laws Amendment Act, Act No 54 of 1952
… The Act was to amend the Native Labour Regulation Act, 1911, the Natives … and the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act, 1954; to repeal certain…
ArchiveThe Black Workers Project: A proposal
… There is a universal understanding for workers to negotiate in one voice, yet Blacks were refused membership to Trade unions.The complexity of the race…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… one of the prospectors in the Orange Free State. Refering to the image of the train-coach; this 4-8-2T locomotive, supplied new to Loraine Gold Mine as No 1,…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… IN MEMORY OF PORT ELIZABETHAN DAVID ALLEN AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE PORTUGUESE GALLEON SACRAMENTO … WRECKED ON 30 JUNE 1647 THE 72 SURVIVORS…
EventMpho Mathibela, one of the Siamese twins separated in an operation six months earlier, leaves hospital for the first time
… were joined at the head and a decision was made for them to be separated. They were separated in 1988. Mpho proved to be the stronger twin after the surgery,…
B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… speech entirely and who never hands one of his speeches to the press. He does, however, make some notes before … great difference between the written and the…
EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… the assistance of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) to restore order and expel the Belgians but was not … 1960 Lumumba was placed under house arrest. He…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… Fort Hare), but dropped out after two years. He returned to Natal and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in … was very active in the Natal ANC,…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… African Communist Party (SACP), Charles Nqakula, was born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his … Imvo Zabantsundu in King William's Town…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… 1905 she became the first African woman from South Africa to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc.). Even … Convention in December 1935 by Dr. A…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… taken his family into exile in Botswana, but they moved to Angola because they thought it would be safer. The letter … Williamson, a spy for the security…
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Front. One of the first steps in creating the front was to establish regional committees to consult with organizations in that region. On 21 May 1983 ……
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… 1956. The United Nations (UN) considered this declaration to be illegal and imposed sanctions on Southern Rhodesia. … unified. However, factions soon…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… unifying and voicing student protests against laws decreed to limit the freedoms of Black South Africans at mainly … bodies. NUSAS addressed issues of…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… after he was struck by a train on a railway bridge close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, ……
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… killed after being suspected of planning a coup. According to Gqozo the plan had been monitored for three weeks. Gqozo … in the attempt coup. On 9 February…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… American Cyanamid and Unilever provided buses to ferry shoppers to stores in neighbouring towns, cancelled expansion plans … the consequences, as several…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… All-race municipal elections were held on this date to elect segregated local authorities. For the first time … elections it would get a new group of Black…