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EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 286. …
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day celebrations…
ArchiveUnlawful Organizations Act, Act No 34 of 1960
The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public order, by proclamation in the Gazette to…
ArchiveThis Council of the SACC calls upon all its member churches
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) calls upon all its member churches to participate in the National Day of Prayer for the people of Crossroads which…
PlaceOnverwacht
… [Accessed: 14 February 2013]| Forced Removals in South Africa – The Surplus People’s Reports Vol. 1, pp.17| Forced Removals in South Africa – The Surplus…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, registered a stunning victory against highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the African students from…
ArchiveANC/UCT Position Paper proposals
Report of a meeting between the ANC and the University of Cape Town on the education crisis. Includes handwritten notes on a consultative meeting between the…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… [Accessed: 15 April 2014]|Davenport, T. H. (1977). South Africa: A Modern History. Macmillian: Johannesburg . …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… Reddy, E.S. 1997. Indian Passive Resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 . Mainstream [Online] 5 April. Available …
EventSipho Mutsi dies in police custody
Seventeen-year-old activist and leader of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Sipho Mutsi, died in police custody during interrogation at the…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
Cedric Mayson, former Methodist Minister who was banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appeared before the Pretoria Supreme Court on…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
African National Congress (ANC) insurgents launched a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station Johannesburg. Pamphlets were scattered…
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian leaders are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a…
EventRetief Goosen is born.
On 3 February 1969 Retief Goosen, a prominent South African golf player was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo province. Goosen, famously known by his nickname "The…
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Botswana
The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana registered a convincing 2-0 victory over the national team of neighbouring Botswana, two years after its…
EventReggie Hadebe ANC Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, is gunned down
African National Congress (ANC) Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, Mr Reggie Hadebe, was gunned down in an…
EventAzanian People’s Liberation Army kills three policemen in Katlehong violence
… Press, (1993), Articles about Police Murders in South Africa , from Los Angelis Times , 06 May, [online], Available …
EventChris Hani is elected SACP Secretary
Former UMkhonto we Sizwe commander, Chris Hani, was elected as secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at its first legal congress in…
EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
An African National Congress (ANC) delegation headed by Walter Sisulu, met with two government officials, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok and Defence…
EventOscar Nominations are announced
The first Oscar nomination for a South African film Yesterday in the Best Foreign Language category, was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
EventChairman of the IEC resigns
Chairperson of the South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Judge Johann Kriegler, resigned from his position two years after the Commission's…
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) walked out of a parliamentary budget session on the grounds that its view was being ignored. COSATU had…
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
An African National Congress (ANC) delegation of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the party's second major submission to the Truth and…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
George Mzimvube Matanzima, younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima and prime minister of the Transkei in 1979 and 1987, was born in Qamata, Transkei. The…
EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
On 28 August 1908 Eli Weinberg was born in Libau, Latvia. Weinberg was a trade unionist and communist party member. He co-founded the African Garment Workers'…