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Media 24 reports that about 75 people have died in Kenya of a hemorrhagic fever called Rift Valley Fever for the past three wee
… Media 24 reports that about 75 people have died in Kenya of a hemorrhagic fever called Rift Valley Fever for the past …
On its 80th birthday the ANC declares that an interim government of national unity must be set in place and a general election
… 80th birthday the ANC declares that an interim government of national unity must be set in place and a general election …
Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 19
… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, … leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the…
The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, Gabb
… The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by …
Percy Fisher, born in 1891 in Durham, England, miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922 miners’ strik
… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922…
Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Lüderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namib coast of Sout
… | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 6. … after sailing for three weeks along…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… 1902 31 May, The Peace Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Anglo-Boer War that began in 1899. … general constitutional principles; a constitutional-making body;…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… ICC Origins In the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945) the international … blockade of the ports or coasts, if it is considered being, by its…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … day. He argued that the doctrine of…
Mission Stations - I-L
… Niven, who was residing alone, in a stone house consisting of a few plain rooms, one of which was used for a school. … and I. All three windows had a…
“Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa”, Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference, Arusha, 4 December
… Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our…
EventPresent UN headquarters is opened
… The international peace keeping body, the United Nations (UN), which had replaced the League of Nations in 1945, opened its headquaters two years after … The…
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… interest in academia. He loved to ski and was made captain of the Cambridge ski team. His other interest was flying and … and sent to the Dulag Luft transit…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first … and plastered; its form was that of a…
EventFinal Commission report on University Christian Movement
… The final report of the Le Grange Commission, dealing with the University … Commission's findings was that the UCM, as a multi-racial body, had engaged in…
EventBotha pleads not guilty to contempt charges
… in court in George, Western Cape, to face contempt of the court charges. Botha had incurred the charges after he … appear before the Truth and Reconciliation…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need … is arrested by the British colonisers…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the … the history of the South African…
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the same year (1986) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The governing body of Games were already faced with…
EventPres Mandela’s testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South African Rugby Football … of…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the all African Convention held its … of the population of this country. A rightless…
32. An unjust and uncalled-for Immigration Bill, 1894
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … that capital will not give him interest sufficient to keep body…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work against HIV/AIDS being under the leadership of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. 9 … 18 July as …
Chapter 14
… at disruption The farcical elections were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, … was an unroar over the appearance of yet…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… This year, June 26, will mark the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the "Campaign of Defiance of Unjust … (SAIC) and the Franchise Action Council (an…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… itself as South Africa's official Olympic representative body in place of the 'white' South African Sports Association (SASA). … sport structures and went on…
EventBrett Kebble is shot dead
… Andile Nkuhlu, Kebble's business partner and member of the ANC Youth League, who was expecting Kebble at dinner, said that Kebble was the victim of a callous…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1910 First general election that followed the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Only White males had the right to vote. 1915 … into a Fusion with…
EventEric Mntonga is found dead
… The body of Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South … ranking Ciskei police officers were arrested in the wake of…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… what considerations he had in mind. Despite the plethora of articles and books on Nelson Mandela, little is written on … to Freedom and examines his own…