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ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… On 15 September 1914, de la Rey and Beyers left Pretoria for the military camp at Potchefstroom, Western … with a few of his men. Jopie Fourie still held…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… known as the Solomon Commission, commences its sittings in Pretoria. 1914 14 January, The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is … 4-5 September, The Anti-Asiatic League…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… South Africa Question : Since the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of strategy by the … the attack was suppressed. As a result…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… of Parliament in Cape Town and at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. For these occasions the women wore black sashes in … two months hence, had been decided on…
The fight against passes continues
… thing was we had to raise the money to take the women to Pretoria, and so in Port Elizabeth we divided ourselves into … that if we had to, we would sell our…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… on a charge of High Treason, in the special court at Pretoria, and released. Twenty-eight persons (22 Africans, 3 … reserved for them. End of may, Victorio…
ArchiveA vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority. Reject Aparthate!
… text on ballot box: At the congress of the ASB held in Pretoria on 28 June 1971 the Prime Minister warned that …
EventSA poet and artist Wopko Jensma is born
… institutions and majored in sculpture at the University of Pretoria. After having lived in Mozambique, Botswana and …
EventBishop Zulu is born
… (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista. …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… first democratic President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National …
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in Pretoria. The base had been known as Voortrekkerhoogte … OCCASION OF THE NAMING OF THE THABA TSHWANE…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… rigid press censorship introduced. But two years later, Pretoria has still not succeeded in regaining control of the … killed and thousands more displaced,…
EventP.W. Botha petitioned to open all sports venues
… in an athletics competition at Menlo Park High School, Pretoria, in February 1987, caused public indignation and …
EventUnion of South Africa is inaugurated
… signed by representatives of both sides at Melrose House, Pretoria. The treaty paved the way for the establishment of …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… 1956 about 20 000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria against the extension of the pass laws to women- a …
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Thulamela
… at the Department of Anatomy at the University of Pretoria who found that the one skeleton was male and the …
ArchiveBolt Number 9 August 1973
… Fernando Pessoa: The Man with Four Faces, John Torres. Pretoria 1956 to 1960: A White Boy Remembers, Christopher …
Place'Boekenhout' Farm in Rustenberg
… farm, a structure put up by Kruger himself in 1863, and a Pretoria-style townhouse built by Kruger's son in 1892. …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe dies in East London
… New dictionary of South African Biography, Vol. 1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 247. …
EventMinister of Constitutional Development Roelf Meyer set to resign
… National Party (NP) launched a 'core values' document in Pretoria , aimed at taking the party forward, it was also …
EventHeroic act by boer soldier Windvogel
… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology , Pretoria: Lapa. …
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
… Cloete, P.G. (2000), The Anglo-Boer War Chronology, Pretoria, p. 236. …
EventSouth African police close the investigation into the death of Steve Biko
… When Steve Biko was found dead on a cold cement floor in a Pretoria prison, police claimed that he died of hunger …
EventLimpet mine explodes and damages substation in Durban
… in Soweto, followed by an explosion that damaged a Pretoria sub-station. …
”On this night a bedraggled Winston Churchill knocks on the door of the manager of Delagoa Bay Collier, pleading for something
… pleading for something to eat after his escape from Pretoria the night before. The manager, John Howard, hides …
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… apartheid, with its operational base not in Germany but in Pretoria. Its objective was to conquer and subdue the whole … of measurable progress. The light is…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… measures for strengthening economic sanctions against the Pretoria regime. As we have stated in the past, economic … The imposition of sanctions has…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… measures for strengthening economic sanctions against the Pretoria regime. As we have stated in the past, economic … The imposition of sanctions has…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… apartheid, with its operational base not in Germany but in Pretoria. Its objective was to conquer and subdue the whole … of measurable progress. The light is…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… you of these events, so that you may understand that what Pretoria seeks is peace to preserve apartheid and secure … invasions that were to follow. Detente…