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EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… murdered Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader, Steve Biko was served with a five year banning order. Woods was …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… Police brutality. After the death of his friend, Steve Biko, Woods was arrested by the Security Police and served … 2010]|H2G2, (2011), Donald Woods - the…
EventPeter Scott is born
… in Cape Town.[i] Peter is a South African alpine skier.[ii] His family immigrated to France when Peter was nine years … (13 March 2017). ↵ [ii] Peter Scott, …
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… died as a result of the harmful gases they had inhaled. [ii] As a result of the disaster, many residents of Macassar … http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle…
EventPeter Scott, South African alpine skier is born
… in Cape Town . [i] Peter is a South African alpine skier. [ii] His family immigrated to France when Peter was nine years … (13 March 2017). ↵ [ii] Peter…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… second world class athlete after Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He represented South Africa at the 1912 Olympics, held in … (20 April 2017). ↵ [ii] David van Lill,…
EventThato Madonsela, the South African rapper is born
… Gifted Newcomer” award at the Channel O awards in 2010.[ii] The mixtape also included the diss track “Black Suit” … (26 September 2014). ↵ [ii] L-Tido, http:…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… troops to various war-zone destinations during World War II. On that fateful day the Rohna carried 2388 souls on … greatest American loss of lives at sea…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… legislative powers would be returned to King Moshoeshoe II , who would rule through a military council chaired by … had developed between Lekhanya and King…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… up a booming wine export business. After starting his life in South Africa as a butcher boy in what is now the Cape … the fledgling Fairview wines. Their…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… about her brother, asking them to help find his remains. [ii] According to Ms Garland, Peter Johnson had been sent to … with Nazeem Mullins in Canterbury…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… Songs: "Simple Black Man". "Tax Song" (off stage) ACT II. Scene 1 A year or so later. Court Room. Anna is being … made him despair. But the appearance of…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… policies was beginning to be doubted in Britain, and (ii) in the 1930s was the rise of Afrikaners to power … be its penal colony, where British convicts…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… and attacks on cinemas which showed the Steve Biko biographic film "Cry Freedom". According to his …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… apartheid. During the second round of negotiations, CODESA II, which commenced in December 1991, the NP insisted that … Kriel. Thus during the period between…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… up in a short period of colonialism, and spent most of his life in the apartheid era, during which his family was forced …
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… in the hope of finding a job and leading a more normal life.” Until then, the regime was freely granting “exit …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… state. The head of state is a Kaptyn (Captain). Adam Kok II and Barend Barends are elected Provisie Kaptyns (temporary … strife in the Griqua community Cape…
EventSnaar Viljoen, the great all-rounder is born
… Snaar was one of South Africa’s greatest all-rounders.[ii] AnchorHe alsocompeted in the Decathlon events. Snaar won … ↵ [ii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… means of combining the traditional oval and road course.[ii] The racecourse hosted the penultimate leg of the 1999 … Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press,…
EventThe "Battle of Andringa": violently separating Stellenbosch
… accusations being made against people jumping the queue. [ii] No sooner did violence break out when the Coloured … op Stellenbosch, 1940. Historia. 50(2): p…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… name Nasty C was born in Durban[i] on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at the age of nine.[iii] Nasty C was … (3 September 2015). ↵ [ii] Things you…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) I and II were held between 21 December 1991 and May 1992 and … by 19 political parties. After the collapse…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… the fossils began. They found many hominids, but World War II stopped the work until 1946. Professors Broom and Dart and …
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. Like Menelik II (1889-1913), Haile Selassie, a distant relation, claimed … portrayal of Selassie and his predecessor…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… and the ANC meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise with the British Commonwealth and urge … Army Services and African…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… their leaders, my comrades-in-arms, who are sacrificing life and liberty in the struggle for freedom, democracy and … Haron, have died while in detention…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… returned to South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was …
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… 1905. [i] He attended the University of the Free State. [ii] Hart won six medals at the 1930 and 1934 Commonwealth … (20 April 2017). ↵ [ii]Kovsie…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… 1904.[i] Smith’s boxing debut took place on 20 June 1925.[ii] Willie Smith was South Africa’s second Olympic champion … Notes [i] Willie Smith, http://boxrec…