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More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).
… More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War). …
The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo
… The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo …
The Voortrekkers under Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit Maritz defeat the Ndebele under Mzilikazi at Mosega, near the present Zeeru
… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 161 | … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970)…
The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.
… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The government decides to close The Post…
Chief Buthelezi rejects the President’s call to resume participation in the constitution-making process and returns to the Cons
… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Chief Buthelezi rejects the President’s call to…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particular … and took its active opposition beyond the boundaries of…
EventThe State Theatre in Pretoria opens
… The State theatre in Pretoria opened in 1981 as a non-profit government funded company. The Japanese- influenced building is actually a complex of theatres…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto … outside his home in Gaborone. He was due…
PlaceAllemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape
… Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Former name of the Farm- Almondsfontein, given by Colonel Robert Jacon Gordon, who was the Commander of the…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) was formed at an inaugural conference in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg. The organisation was based on the…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated … The Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg…
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether South Africa should become a republic. The result showed that 52% were in favour of…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your world on us, you killed, … That apartheid is dead. (We heard that before)…
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… was born on 4 August 1900. Queen Elizabeth Angela was the ninth child and daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, father and Cecilia … Cavendish-Bentinck. She…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… Gariep Dam is located in South Africa, near the Town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape Provinces. The stone Bridge … Bethulie Bridge…
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… Since the launch of the world's first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, in … Agreement. As defined by the convention, the purpose of Inmarsat was to…
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed … The politics referred to is not about the…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, … Craig, D. 2003. " Chiefs…
EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… The first Chadian oil pipeline was opened by Chad President Idriss Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to be flawed by … Kwatala S. and Oliver M. (20 March…
12. The pickled money-order receipt
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … immigrants sent money regularly to relatives in India. In the…
Letter from S. S. Mazibuko to the President
… This letter is from the Vice President of the South African Students' Movement to the President … Letter from S. S. Mazibuko to the President …
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the … Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records…
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
… The inter-racial Women's National Coalition (WNC) Conference (25-27 February 1994), started in the World Trade Centre, Kempton Park. The conference focused…
ArchivePrevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Act: Punitive Squatting Act signed: 9 February 1989
… Circular relating to the prevention of Illegal Squatting Act of 1951 which prohibited the creation and occupation of almost all informal housing … Prevention…
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… Thesis has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the … Natal and the 1960 Republican Referendum …
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… The government and the African National Congress (ANC) reaffirmed their … group reached consensus on several issues such the release of political prisoners,…
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… University Press and Oxford University Press who were the copyright holders of the English Revised Version Bible felt that a modern version … The New English…