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ArchiveMemorandum on the raising of affiliation fees of the National Union of South African Students
… giving reasons for the recent increase in affiliation fees to the National Union of South African Students. The projects … Union are listed, as well as the…
ArchiveWe shall win
… a joint statement by ANC, ZAPU, SWAPO, PAIGC, MPLA, to the Fifth Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the … for African Unity (OAU) held in Algiers…
Archive6. Alternative national service
… lettering. End Conscription Campaign. Demands submitted to the Geldenhuys Committee on the 13th August 1985. … alternative service as discussed by ECC and…
ArchivePeace call up
… End Conscription Campaign. Meeting to discuss aternatives to military call up. White poster with black lettering. Image …
ArchiveLiberty, equality, fraternity-today
… Africa and its citizens would benefit by working together to gain democracy and to ensure that the country moves away from discrimination. …
EventFinal evacuation of Sophiatown by black residents
… of the existing houses started. The area was reassigned to White residents and called Triomf (meaning triumph). Click here to read more about Sophiatown. …
ArchivePopulation Registration Act, Act No 30 of 1950
… The Act was to make provision for the compilation of a Register of the … Population of the Union; for the issue of Identity cards to persons whose names are…
ArchiveCommissions presented at 5th General Students
… The memorandum contains commissions to assess, among others, the theory of the struggle pertaining to the Black culture, the feasibility of research into …
ArchiveMetal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases
… year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one could be on the way as metal workers attempt…
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli’s chance of Rectorship
… Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for Albert Luthuli to leave Natal and be…
ArchiveNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956
… The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory … the removal or ejectment of natives in certain cases, and to provide for other…
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
… today in Paarl, Western Cape. This initiate seeks to address persisting problems of farm evictions, working … conditions and the previous initiatives that…
PlaceTable Bay
… Table Mountain . Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the region in 1486. The region of the Western Cape … settlement. Portuguese navigators…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… towards the end of 1986 in Pretoria, where a resolution to appoint a committee to look into the possibility of founding a new church was … unity and…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… Clinton’s home ground in Glasgow, Matala overwhelmed him to claim his first WBO title on an eighth-round technical … boxer in the world. His height, however,…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… of order immediately after independence was due in part to Lumumba's excessive rhetoric, and was followed by the … at Thysville and on 17 January 1961 he was…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to the hearts of people the world over, about injustice and … In this campaign they called for:…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… aware of the damage Apartheid inflicted on local art. To combat this Ainslie raised funds to buy a house and established the Johannesburg Art … and the…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… as well as opposing and resisting Italian attempts to colonise Ethiopia. Despite great opposition from … a pedigree older than most European empires, gave…
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), to organise a 'Viva Frelimo' rally. If Portuguese colonialism … Myeza. These rallies were the…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… but the women were still excluded from certain SAP units to the extent that a separate women's police section was instituted to deal with female related…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… appointed Mr Justice Louis Harms, a Supreme Court judge, to investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February 1990, the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection to the new settlement. Therefore, it was built in accordance … five strong…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… state plotters and found out whether they really wanted to overthrow the government by force. If that was their … ready. He had hoped that the judge…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… by Prime Minister Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, who attempted to dissolve the National Assembly and suspend all political … unity" had been decided upon. Military…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… carried out during the 1980s. In two earlier submissions to the commission, Mr de Klerk categorically denied that he … but also show a measure of its success…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… explosives expert for the United States Army. It is said to have been the largest pipe bomb in American history- which … and injured 111. The motive for the…
Event200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… British navy, captains often reduced the fines they had to pay by ordering the slaves to be thrown into the sea. Though the slave trade was … in the Cape…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… kilometres from the Mozambique capital Maputo. According to reports by survivor, Salvador Manuel, rebels attacked the … Nkomati Accord of 1984 with South…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… Eugene Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, … Police service and served for five years before he…