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PlaceNorthern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest Province in South Africa, but has the least number of inhabitants. Before 1993 it was part of the Cape Province (under old…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… and call reapplication and admission of all students. On 12 June a mass meeting was held at St John’s Cathedral in … 1973 at Athlone Athletic Park attended…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Moteka 9.Hlayiseka Chawane 10.Sipho Mbatha 11.Kenny Kunene 12.Mandisa Makesini 13.Hlengiwe Hlophe 14.Marshall Dlamini … 9.Sipho Mbatha 10. Kenny Kunene 11. …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… PW Botha, and was extended for another two years in 1987. Most violent action was directed at the apartheid …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… 1989 were, Dennis Goldberg (1985), Govan Mbeki (5 November 1987) and Nelson Mandela (11 February 1990). They were …
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… The first botched attempt on Tshabalala's life was made in 1987 when several shots were fired at her moving vehicle …
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… relating to the murder of thirteen people in KwaMakutha in 1987. The case centred on allegations that the former …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… of several bursaries. He exhibited his work from 1928-1987. In 1937 he won the first prize in the May Esther …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… that Defence Minister, Magnus A. Malan, knew as early as 1987 of a secret "hit squad" made up of police officers which … a national membership drive, with…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… men living in Johannesburg, of which a startling 12.8% were infected with the virus. The first deaths from … the potential threat the disease posed for the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… minimal back-up. They hadmaybe...R1,000 or R2,000, maybe...12 hand grenades and an AK...many of them just being put … failed to destabilise border areas…
The Detention Weapon
… bis provided for long-term 'preventive' detention of up to 12 months, renewable. Section 12B provided for up to 6 months … to court by the South African…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… opens for children of the colonists. The class comprises 12 white colonist children, 4 young slaves and 1 Khoikhoi … compulsory school attendance from all…
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… Henry was born in Stellenbosch on 23 January 1952.[i] In 1987, at the age of 34, Henry became the first South African …
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… agents. In the early hours of the morning of 7 May 1987, two large bombs ripped through the basement of COSATU …
EventWorld Population Day
… by the marking of The Day of Five Billion on the 11 July 1987. On this day the earth's population reached the five …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2 April 1987. Kuzwayo was born into a privileged family in the …
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… , describing the lives of black miners in 1914. On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went … wage gap between the white worker and the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in February … to discuss the repatriation of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… of De Vryezwarten and their role in spread of Islam 12 More convicts were brought to the Cape in 1743 to serve as … The total registered population at the…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… shot in the hostels in separate incidents, surface. 12 August, Five employees are shot and taken to hospital … death is found at Marikana, raising the death…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… South African Consulate is sited, renamed after Mandela 1987 9 January, Mandela becomes the first person to receive … bestowed by the Town Council of the…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… No-one mistreating Krumen or detaining them for over 12 months would be allowed to recruit again There was to be … the memory of the late Prof Robert Shell …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… They are the youngest members to sit on the committee. 12 February, Boy Mvemve (operating under the name John Dube) … and nine other ANC members starts in…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Gandhi's mother died. News withheld from him. January 12, Passed the examination with ease, but as he had not yet … to the Bar. June 11, Enrolled in the High…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… nearby Bantustan Itsoseng because of the Group Areas Act. [12] Furthermore, Makweteng was sandwiched between a farm … debt and unable to keep farming. This…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… On 5 November 1987, Govan Mbeki , member of African National Congress (ANC) …
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… (as reported by rhodonpublicaffairs.blogspot.com) 2004 12 June, "I wanted to become a doctor, a physician, and I was … you ought to be lenient with us. We've…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Communist Party member Moses Kotane is arrested. June 12, Professor Z. K. Matthews leaves South Africa to spend … the Defiance Campaign will commence on…