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EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… ultimately captured in the first battle of Silkaatsnek on 11 July 1900. After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the … harsh conditions using the…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… married 21st October 1798 & Maria Johanna MENTZ married 11 Mar 1826. The Grave is situated near the Fish River (it's … The Museum is open most Saturdays…
ArchiveInterview with Sibongile Mthembu Mkhabela
… subsequently was a defendant in the trial of the "Soweto 11" and was jailed for two years. Answers have been …
EventThe trial of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act begins
… and terrorism between May 1976 and October 1977. On 11 May, 1979they were convicted of sedition and sentenced to …
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
… Luthuli, president of the African National Congress from 1952-1968. A devour Christian, a man deeply committed to land … from “responsible” black leaders…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… PAC, and P.K Leballo , its national secretary, as well as 11 others are charged with incitement to riot. 24 March, The … Cassiem is arrested for PAC…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… by hand and aided in the overall construction of the dam. [11] Even though these men were given meager wages, the … of Men”, Water History, (Vol 8), (No. 2),…
PlaceDe Goede Verwachting, 17 Cavalcade Road, Green Point
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 September 1964. …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 April 1980. The reserve was named after …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… parties. Subsequently, Mandela was released from prison on 11 February, 1990. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… and Kitchener Leballo, its national secretary, as well as 11 others are charged with incitement to riot. 24 March, The … that South Africa wants to remain in…
EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… and placed under house arrest until 1980. Bella died on 11 April 2012. …
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… The date is given as 14 March in another source, but 11 March is mentioned in the official declaration by the …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P. Campbell formed a …
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 473. …
EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… Cape. Today, the town has a population of just over 11 000. It is a thriving small town with a booming sheep …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in 1952, the Government did not begin issuing permits to women … one of the main components of the women…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… report in The International, January 14, 1916. Document 11: '170 Million Recruits', editorial in The International, … - Notes of the Conference',The…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… 11 th Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Popular Education: … its first tour of South Africa. The colloquium (9:00 – 11:30, UWC) is for invited popular…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Africa . Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991. (chapters 11-13) Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho. Native Life in South … in South Africa . Craighall, Ad Donker,…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… and age, but the extent of this division is unknown. [11] Men were relegated to the upkeep of the cattle and … missionaries in conquest”, South African…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 9, 10, 11 and 16 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… of the franchise leading to eventual African rule. On 11 November, the Smith government issued a unilateral …
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… On 27 October 2005 at about 11.30pm, the Trans Karoo Express collided with a stationary …
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… early 2011, leading to fears of a repeat of the disaster 11 years earlier. The floods, however, turned out to be less …
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… declaration of independence for Katanga province on 11 July. The intervention by UN troops followed Patrice …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… dead and scores injured. Following the proclamation, 11 727 people were detained. In April 1960, the government …
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… other specimens have turned up in the Southern oceans. In 1952, a population was found near the Comoro Islands …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… of Action in 1949. He was one of the key figures in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and was banned in terms of the …