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PlaceAlice, a Town near East London
… North-West of East London. It was named in 1847, according to some authorities, by the Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, … Alice, the 2nd daughter of Queen…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… and railway officials, laid out on part of Wingfield, a former Naval Aerodome named Sassar from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after the Port…
ArchiveStatement
… Africa. The regime over the past few weeks had launched a counter-offensive, isolating the ANC, attempting to liquidate the armed struggle, undermining the…
Statement issued by the Vigilance Committee, Grahamstown
… The suggestions include the need for the Council to address problems such as shortage of housing in the locations, excessive rental fees and the need to…
ArchiveReport on Black Workers Project
… The Black Workers Project emanated out of a resolution taken at the 3rd General Students Council. The purpose of the project was to serve and protect the…
ArchiveFreedom and state security in the South African plural society
… This paper tries to iron out the concerns of the government and its citizens … been expressed in legal constitutional language, in a plural society meaning a…
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… – the collections include many unique materials relating to the struggle for freedom, or to Robben Island and imprisonment under Apartheid. …
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… Unity talks were held and it was decided unequivocally to tell the government that the present political … of the government, which they considered as an…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years sentence of imprisonment. Sisulu was arrested at … 17 Act 37/1963 and charged with…
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… he became the first President of the Republic of Kenya. A few years earlier, Kenyatta had been sentenced to hard labour and was restricted following his…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… (ANC), Walter Sisulu, was convicted of having incited a stay-at-home of African workers in protest of the Republic … Act of 1961. This incitement was seen as…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the … the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… Congress (ANC) member Walter Sisulu acted as speaker at a meeting of the organisation held in Sophiatown, … earmarked for Whites only. Sisulu urged the…
EventA Day of Prayer Called by the NIC
… A Day of Prayer, called by Natal Indian Congress (NIC) , was … businesses were closed at 1pm, and many Indians took a resistance pledge. Messages such as …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… was born in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to a Zulu father and a Swazi mother. He created more than 800 sculptures in wood, …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become an insurance company agent. During the 1940s and … of the South…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian … of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a minimum of five years…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa’s northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
… that South Africa's northern borders are protected by a radar complex constituting an early warning system, and that the entire coastline was to be covered…
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… not an insurrection, but the peaceful removal of President F W De Klerk from power; the immediate transfer of political power to the people; installation of…
EventNelson Mandela continues his international tour
… Nelson Mandela, proceeded with his international tour to Sweden. His tour had hitherto included African countries … time after 28 years with his comrade and…
EventNelson Makhuba murders his family and commits suicide.
… household utensils and tourist trade objects and was also a band leader, committed suicide. Upon his return from … later doused his museum and himself with…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, went up in flames after a giant gas explosion, this time not as result of a political attack or sabotage but rather from a…
EventMobutu Sese Seko dies
… the end of his nearly 32-year reign. Sese Seko was exiled to Rabat after he was ousted from power by Laurent Kabila's … Forces for the Liberation of Congo…
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… A former member of the Volksraad of the South African … was instructed by Governor-General Herbert Gladstone to constitute a government in terms of the South…
EventThe Anglo Boer War
… Britain sends 30 000 additional troops to South Africa in the Anglo-Boer War (now called the South … because they underestimated the resilience of the Boers…
EventInternational Day of Families.
… by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day to provide an opportunity to celebrate families. This day is celebrated on 15 May every …
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1979
… Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town from 13 to 15 March 1979, discussing: Headquarter's report, … Education, Advice Offices, housing, squatters,…
PlaceAlbertville, Johannesburg
… Suburb of Johannesburg adjoinng Albertskroon, to the South-East of it. It was laid out in 1896 on the Farm … spoken followed closely by Afrikaans, this is…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 3 September 1982
… Evidence from Roelofse to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council … of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to…
ArchiveThe failure of the Coloured Persons Represen
… instituted by successive Nationalist Governments to serve as an alternative to parliamentary representation for the Coloured people, the …