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EventKing Mswati III is born
… (King Mswati III) was born in Masundini Swaziland to King Sobhuza III and one of his younger wives Ntombi … of his wives acted as regents until Mswati…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… of National Unity (the democratic government since 1994) to help deal with violations of human rights during the … The Commission was charged with the…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid government…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo, Egypt. He knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… then Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger. Still hundreds flocked to the 25-September-1974 rally, leading to the arrest of most Black People’s Convention (BPC) and …
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…