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The New Generation
… Centre, Soweto 1983 Community Arts Workshop (CAW), Durban 1986 Alexandra Arts Centre, Alexandra Along with the many … Thupelo workshops, for example, which…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… On 21 October 1986 Jacob Thabo Lengane, the father of Jefferson Lengane …
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… collaborated with Paul Simon on his album Graceland in 1986. The album went on to win three Grammy awards. The …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… in various schools in South Africa. Her untimely death in 1986 cut her career short. Some of her material was published …
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
… P W Botha removed the Act from the statutes book in 1986. …
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… that were firsts for Black South Africans. He died in 1986 and survived by his wife and two children. …
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… for Newspapers. Hough’s debut novel was published in 1986, titled My kat word herfs. The book was targeted at the …
EventChiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first black player to lead the Springboks against a World XV in England
… Chiliboy Ralepelle was born in Tzaneen on 11 September 1986. Ralepelle moved to Pretoria and attended Pretoria Boys …
Congo gains its independence from Belgium
… “Congo Free State”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed 14 July 2018, … “Belgian Congo”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed 14 July 2018, https://www…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… Kyluka [online] Available at www.kyluka.com [Accessed on 14 December 2010] Zvielli A. and Ben-David, C. (2002) 'Abba … [online] Available at www…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… had launched a sabotage campaign on November 1, 1954. [14] In van der Heyden’s recollection they mainly recruited … where she coordinated prisoner education…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… The premises were officially opened to the public on 14 November 1853. By that time it could boast of 112 members, … its first Speaker. 1 June, Natal issued…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… highly politicised events such as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 Defiance Campaign, inter …
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… Ball Publishers, pp 484.O’Malley P., (2011) ‘Chronologies: 1986’from Nelson Mandela Foundation [online]. Available at …
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… for the necklace murder of M. Mpapne that took place in 1986. The state argued its case on the alleged evidence that …
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… government introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency. The state of emergency gave the …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… On 27 August 1986 a crowd of more than 500 marched to council offices in …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… the United Kingdom and later Transkei before he retired in 1986. …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… museum, managed by the defence department and opened in 1986. The SA government had bought the wood in 1920 and …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… an attempt to release Charles Sebe from a Ciskeian jail in 1986. Geldenhuys was also an accomplice in the murders of …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… Group to investigate the situation in the country. Then in 1986, he called for a campaign to establish an alternative …
ArchiveFrom the margins to the mainstream: the anti-apartheid movement and the politics of agenda-setting in the United States
… States policy relations with South Africa between 1960 and 1986. The research is based upon an analysis of an original …
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 March 1986. Wording on English commemorative stone: Wording on …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Valkenberg Hospital is a psychiatric Hospital in the …
EventMpho Mathibela, one of the Siamese twins separated in an operation six months earlier, leaves hospital for the first time
… conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on 7 December 1986.The twin girls were joined at the head and a decision …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… and released after 251 days. Five years later, on 27 June 1986, when he was the editor of the New Nation, Sisulu was … International Defence and Aid Fund for…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… its president in 1983. Gumede and his party were banned in 1986. Over the following years he continued his law practice. …
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… non-elected chiefs. He later appointed his cabinet. In 1986, he was forced to retire by the South African …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… On 19 October 1986, the Mozambique President, Samora Machel and …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council …