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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,…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … from general developments. The student is referred to the better known general…
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 …
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… Interview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi who was a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the … consciousness movement, he became involved in efforts…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
… African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party, SACP delegation to the Congresses of the…
Speak - the voice of the community
… residents' associations, including women's associations, to lobby for better housing, affordable rents and better … the Government elections resulting in…
PlaceMartello Tower, Simonstown
… tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence system of Simonstown. It has been … of its kind in the world, as well as the…
EventKip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 mins 34.9 secs
… 1962. From early on he trained under very high altitudes to prepare his body to perform under all conditions. Keino won several gold … and 1972, but it was…
EventFormer commander of the armed forces of the Ciskei, Major-General Charles Sebe is imprisoned
… Sebe, brother of President Lennox Sebe, was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment after being found guilty of incitement to public violence. He was charged…