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EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in the…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… others. The youth movement was effectively squashed by mid-1987. Two youth leaders were sentenced to death during trials … efforts were blocked, until the…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… is of Sister Bernard Ncube being released from prison in 1987 in which the government tried to charge her, and several … within South Africa was the UDF…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Skotaville Publishers. June 16: The Fruit of Fear (1986) 1987 In January, Omar Badsha is appointed to head the … Race Relations. Glenmore: The Story of a…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 24 November 1972. …
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… imprisonment, but was released on bail and placed under a 24-hour house arrest. …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… interfere. Violence against the Resisters stopped only on 24 June when the Smuts government took action after wide …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… On 24 October, 1964 Northern Rhodesia (now known as Zambia) …
EventCape Supreme Court sets aside 1973 Ciskei election of Lennox Sebe on the grounds of irregularities
… Minister of the Ciskei, after he won a by-election on 24 October 1975. …
EventThe first plots are sold in Mayfair on the West Rand
… by J.B Robinson in 1886, and the first plots were sold on 24 August 1896, after the land was surveyed by Government …
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… On 6 July 1987, Dr. Federik van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two … Highlights in history on this date: 6 July 1987 [Online]. Available at: www.news24…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… Matanzima. In the wake of the scandal, on 23 September 1987 Transkei Defence Forces (TDF) soldiers served … Roelf Meyer, (1999), A better future John D…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… the most popular anti-apartheid movements of the time. In 1987 to 1989 NACTU held several meetings with the ANC, the …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… of the eastern Cape in the 1920s and 1930s (Bozzoli 1987: 324-357). The increasing level of male migrancy in the … else, motivated them to protest (Bradford…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… and another one with an article by Baruch Hirson (August 1987). Some authors wrote under pseudonyms. Phahle felt that … author of South Africa: Time of Agony…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… that took place in KwaMakhutha, south of Durban in 1987, was one of the bloodiest and most cruel attacks in the … should be brought to light that although…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… During 1956 there was a flood after 308mm of rain fell in 24 hours. Drought lasted five to seven years around this … right soon became evident. In the…
PlacePoswohl Synagogue, Mooi Street, Johannesburg
… from Poswohl, in Lithuania. Its cornerstone was laid on 24 August 1921 and today stands as a memorial to a community …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU). On 24 November 1995, Ramokhoase became the first black mayor of …
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Department of English and American Literature for Spring, 1987. She mentioned to him that Pixley Seme had been a pupil … Mount Hermon around the turn of the…
EventCOSATU issued a statement on Marikana Massacre
… On 24 August 2012, Congress of South African Trade Unions …
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
A 31 year-old prison warder Jacques Horne on guard duty, was shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital to free…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) on 24 April 1971. The programme of the NUNW demonstrated the …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) …
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… in Pinetown, near Durban, picket for wage increases. 22 -24 January - Long distance truck drivers go on strike …
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… register and found that she had been underpaid the sum of £24 5s. 7. I called on "Mr. X", asked him to refund this … the Court had determined the amount…
EventJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo is born
… and politics. Muafangejo died of a heart attack in 1987, leaving behind an astounding 5000 linoleum cuts and …
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… States hoped would be accomplished within a week. The 24 crew members and nine technicians under the leadership of …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… the leadership of the organisation is dominated by whites. 24 August, Following the unrest over the appointment of … skipping while teachers stand by…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… words sounded almost as a credo. On Sunday 20 December 1987, opening the exhibition The Hidden Camera, at the final … wrote the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant…