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PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… properties were joined and the houses were fitted out as a hotel. At the time it was known as The Dorchester , but in 1972 its name was changed to the Cottam…
PlaceZorgvliet, Sir George Grey Street, Oranjezicht
… The property was granted to Matthys Coeymans in 1669 and its homestead was subsequently erected in a Cape Dutch style. During the 19th century a number of…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… structured as an independent body corporate, but committed to a theoretical vision of a Black Consciousness ideology. "Frank Talk" was originally …
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the African population, were suspended until normality had … said that the pass laws were not being…
ANC Secretary General meeting former political prisoners on the Cuban Five, 21 May 2010
… In a move aimed at strengthening the campaign for the release of … General Gwede Mantashe is today (21 May 2010) holding a meeting with former South African…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… passed away in Queenstown Private Hospital at 13:30 after a long illness. Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 … of five children of Minah and Gqongo…
Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… A dissertation presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the … with the fashion in which these are created, (or fail to be created)…
PlaceWelgelegen Farm, Stellenbosch
… Welgelegen is a working Farm nestled in the Valleys of the Bottelary Hills … Years. It offers various activities for those that wish to escape the hustle and…
EventThe Immigration Regulation Act is passed in South Africa
… race, gender and class. In the 1930s the Act was extended to not only targeting Africans, but also people from Central … protesting the Immigration Act, from…
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… at the University of Cape Town and Prof. Phillip Tobias, a palaeontologist at Wits University and initiator of the … in 1966. Both Prof. Wells and Tobias…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… In a two-day meeting to discuss emergency measures against South Africa and the … called for sanctions against the country. The move to exclude South Africa…
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission’s report is tabled in parliament
… totalling 700 pages, with nineteen annexures running to 1,566 pages. The report strongly recommended that the … The move came two years after the country…
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… the previous day. Luthuli was the first South African to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. At the time, he was serving a ban under the apartheid government…
EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… workers on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organised by the Garment Workers' Union of … Monday. The case was postponed and…
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… Dr. Y.M. Dadoo, Indians observed complete hartal, that is, a day of mourning or protest on which all the shops were shut and no-one went to work or did any…
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… Fietas, a western suburb of Johannesburg, was officially re-named … Sophiatown, and was also destroyed by forced removals - as a result of the Group Areas…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… 29 March 1982 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a founding member of the South African Native National … the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… This follows an attempt by several hundred guerrillas to invade South and South West Africa (renamed Namibia), from … in readiness for any future guerrilla…
EventRand Afrikaans University is established
… academic excellence and relevance, the University managed to attract students, academics, donors and business partners … and the two Vista campuses of Soweto…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 when he was banned by the government…
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… The release of Nelson Mandela on 11 February 1990 was a catalyst that sped up the change in the political … 1990 343 political prisoners on Robben Island…
EventFormer Student Representative Council (SRC) Vice-President shot by Police
… the list compiled by the David Webster Trust. Ndondo was a cousin of the Human Rights lawyer, Dumisa Ntsebeza. Ndondo … men, were fetched from his home by…
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
… Bantu in the area. Another party was not so fortunate - of a group of twenty-eight who tried to cross overland to Sofala, twenty-six died on the way. These…
EventSoccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
… SuperSport United coach Pitso Mosimane was fined R50 000 at a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary hearing. This … against Sundowns at Loftus Stadium,…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… Community signed in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991. According to the programme, new members of the Parliament were to be sworn in before the start of the official…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… The Independent Democrats (ID), a political party which was formed by Patricia de Lille, who … members of parties at all three levels of government to join a…
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… team, Bafana Bafana, secured 1-0 victory over Ghana, a co-host of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations contest at Kumasi … in Ghana. The victory against Ghana…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… Liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor ascended to presidential power in a peaceful election following a seven-year civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote …
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… by many as one of the most advanced in the world, with a Bill of Rights second to none. South Africa's Constitution was drafted by an … had fought for the…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… On 5 September 1909, a tireless fighter for national and social liberation, Dr. … Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the…