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EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Africa: 1932 - 1949 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 June 1977. …
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… On 17 August 1970, two top South African scientists were refused …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… to Lumumba’s arrest. He was executed by a firing squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… captured. On 1 December he was imprisoned at Thysville. On 17 January 1961 he was flown to Elisabethville in Katanga …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… by the bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, on 17 June. Tributes were made by, among others, Chief Albert …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, was born in …
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
The Portuguese cargo ship Santo Alberto was wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River. Through admirable leadership of the…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… building at 78 Fox Street. The bank has grown to span 17 African countries and 16 countries across South East Asia, …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on …
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
… best writers and cartoonists in the world. In the April 10 1950 issue of the magazine, it featured an article about King … Herald- Journal 11 May 1950 Ban…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… the previous year under the Unlawful Organisations Act of 1950. … , [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org (Accessed: 17 May 2012)| South African…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for 18:00 on Tuesday, 22 August, at the New Lecture … Avenue South, Upper Campus, University of…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and…
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 February 1961. Riebeeck Square (block bounded by …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… fifteen other members mysteriously crashed on the night of 17-18 September at the border of Northern Rhodesia and …
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… to a Johannesburg City Council meeting statement made on 17 October 1944, in which a detailed report regarding the …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… with mixed feelings in-and outside Parliament. On 17 March, 1992, De Klerk succeeded in gaining the support of …
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… Obote’s government. He wasted no time announcing names of 17 new cabinet Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time ally … , [online], available at www.answers…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… forced King Louis XVI to accept the National Assembly. [17] On the 4th of August the National Assembly deputies voted … Ibid. [13] Ibid. p. 300. [14] Ibid. …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… into exile following the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) and the Unlawful Organisations Act (1960) . From … villages and agricultural producer…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… protesting passbooks outside of his office in Harrismith. [17] Outside of such protests, she led the Potato Boycot t … Mkhize, Interview by Couzens, T…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation gives…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act 44 of 1950) . In terms of these notifications Sisulu was directed … of Memory , Available at www…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah…