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ArchiveBantu Education: Yet another assault on the people!
… Call to the people to adopt the policy of the All-African Convention and oppose …
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… The mission of the Durban Natural Science Museum is to acquire and disseminate knowledge about the Earth, its … skeleton and Egyptian mummy, Peten Amen.They…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
… National Working Committee will have an emergency meeting to consider the TRC report and decide on the way forward. The … unfortunate that the report of the…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one … Minister. In 1887 John Dube left South…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… During the absence of our stalwart Govan Mbeki due to incarceration and hiding from the police MaMBeki had to single handedly raised their kids who later…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… calls for independence from as early as 1954 were brought to a regional referendum. The referendum, constitutionally … determined through three means –…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… Colonists were shipwrecked, after looking for a sea-route to India.) The route they followed passed a few miles South of Maclear. According to all Historical…
PlaceFaculty of Health Sciences, UCT Observatory
… health care and research - from clinical and public health to health and rehabilitation sciences. The Groote Schuur … positioned between Main Road and the…
Madiba The African Opera
… The idea of the Opera was born from Mtirara’s wish to document the history of the Thembu Royal Family and … Madiba would be a great conduit for the story he…
Symposium: Memory in a time of freedom
… artists, historians and those who are merely interested to participate in its workshops and talks which aim to "explore the status and nature of…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… and testing (HCT) and if necessary do a further test to determine the CD4 count. This Hospital an accredited … require further medical care and treatment are…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom Charter through photographs, … on the edge of the Walter Sisulu Square…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… policy of separateness. South Africans were required to register as members of one of four racial groups as set … Using these categories, the apartheid…
EventThe University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein
… depicting black workers at the university being forced to take part in degrading activities that included eating food that appeared to have been urinated on …
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… an editor from publishing a report of an incident deemed to have incited people to break the law. This act was passed shortly after the … has been scanned…
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… Educated in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo returned to South Africa in 1936, well-versed in Marxist literature and determined to mobilize a national…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… on 22 October, 1936 in Cradock, Eastern Cape. He went on to complete three university degrees in History and German at … National Liberation Front (NLF). The…
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… he took part in athletics from a young age. Malan began to take athletics seriously during his last two years of high … competition from the 1970s hampered…
EventNational Party wins general election
… votes cast. The four Coloured representatives did not have to stand for re-election yet. The number of Assembly seats … White voters in South Africa had been…
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accused John Morgan was found guilty of … Falati guilty of kidnapping and of assault…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… guilty of public violence in July, were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment, three of which were … of N. Magala in 1985. They had all pleaded not…
EventThe Citizen reveals housing irregularities in Transkei
… aware of some aspects of the irregular deals, but decided to turn a blind eye. It also described how 1 884 tractors … accounted for and some had been sold at…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who had resisted moves to incorporate Clermont into the KwaZulu homeland state, was … amongst them Alex Sosha Khumalo and…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… in Percy Qoboza's honour. They state that it is "Awarded to a foreign journalist who has done extraordinary work while overcoming tremendous obstacles that…
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… of the country. Their actions were motivated by the need to highlight the plight of detainees and the harshness of the … alleged that she had provided the…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… in particular the spice trade. Company ships travelling to and from the East would call at the Cape to replenish their supplies. In 1647, a Dutch ship, the ……
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
… (NAFCOC) president, Tom Mboya, was also in attendance to congratulate Granny Temo. Mr Solly Mohale, the sponsor of … the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) in…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… the Indians at Newcastle, Natal (KwaZulu Natal) Colony to start the Satyagraha Campaign (Passive Resistance … a meeting was held at the Empire Theatre,…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… of the animal disease, rinderpest. Robert Koch was brought to South Africa by the Cape Government to investigate and find a cure for a cattle plague, which ……
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… not obeying laws that segregated each carriage according to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in … could live or work, but also made it…