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EventSamuel Marks (77) dies in Johannesburg
… biography on him. Read more about Marks' contribution to Pretoria's history. …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony … to shoulder with the peoples of the progressive…
ArchiveA Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood
… and gender activist Zanele Muholi at a ceremony in Pretoria on Wednesday evening (22-11-2017). The prestigious …
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… of headquarters of the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, ANC bases in a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique's …
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, voted to transform the AUM into a political party …
PlaceAirlie, a Railway Station near Waterval Onder
… station between Sycamore and Hemlock, on the route from Pretoria to Maputo, some 16 km east of Waterval Onder. At … station between Sycamore and Hemlock, on…
PlaceUnited States Consulate, Cape Town
… visas and American citizen services. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria does not provide any visa services. Applicants for visas in the Pretoria area should apply…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: address in mitigation, 12th June 1964
… in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the Rivonia …
EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
… New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. …
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… family immigrated to South Africa in 1870 and settled in Pretoria. …
EventBeverly Mashinini wins a bronze medal
… A 23-year-old Pretoria girl, Beverly Mashinini, won a bronze medal in …
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… and public buildings, and the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… Africa's first black president at the Union Buildings, Pretoria after being unanimously elected by parliament. He … www.southafrica.info [Accessed: 10 July…
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
… during the opening of the Bureau’s Transvaal Congress in Pretoria on 10 September 1960. …
Statement to the 20th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 14 November 1984
… against the peoples of Africa and humanity as a whole, the Pretoria regime has, for some years now, gone further … and accommodate its interests as a…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
… and economic exploitation. It is a process that the Pretoria rulers can neither defuse nor halt. Within the … Town, East London, Paulpietersburg, Mkhuze,…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… letter from Johann van der Westhuizen of the University of Pretoria to Jack Simons, 12 December 1986. …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… African National Archive has repositories in: Cape Town; Pretoria ; The Free State , in Bloemfontein . The Old Cape … the restoration of the Palace of…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… defends cogently his right to travel by any train between Pretoria and Johannesburg. Source: Gov.P.S. 151911906, vol. … inst. in allowing me to travel by the…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… S.B. (eds) (1993). South Africa in the 20th Century, Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic, pp 390-396. Muller, C.F.J. … Hundred years: a history of South Africa;…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
… 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appeared before the Pretoria Supreme Court on charges including treason and being …
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian leaders are convicted of conspiracy …
EventMugabe is refused accommodation by 2 SA hotels
… The Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and …
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… He also received the Newsmaker of the Year award from the Pretoria Press Club. References: …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… and State President F.W. de Klerk hold discussions in Pretoria on the progress of the Groote Schuur Minute. 4 June, … are in decline 6 August, After 14-hours…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… African Women, Ray Alexander Simons, Hilda Bernstein, Pretoria, Nursing Amendment Act The role that women played in … African mobilized and staged a massive…
ArchiveA vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority. Reject Aparthate!
… text on ballot box: At the congress of the ASB held in Pretoria on 28 June 1971 the Prime Minister warned that …
EventSA poet and artist Wopko Jensma is born
… institutions and majored in sculpture at the University of Pretoria. After having lived in Mozambique, Botswana and …
EventBishop Zulu is born
… (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista. …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… first democratic President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National …