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EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified … laws included the Mixed Marriages Act, the…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… funds to fund government propaganda. The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express were the first to notice that something … were being used. Minister of…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death. Biehl was driving three co-workers to … when some young men started throwing…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… unjust laws designed, firstly to subjugate them and incorporate their lands into the British Empire, and secondly to turn them in labour reserves that…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… I think he is a writer that will continue to be discussed and analyzed and we think should belong to our literary heritage". He … novels are characterized by…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… in history search archive  An estimated 60,000 delegates and heads of government from over 170 countries gathered for … Sandton Convention Centre. The…
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) admitted their role in … of the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… situated on the main railway line to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the Bechuanaland British Protectorate (Botswana). The … protected by a British force,…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and services v Reflective Leadership Framework For … Systems…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… . Pretoria stretches along both sides of the Apies River and extends into the Western Hills, of the Magaliesberg on … in 1860; administrative capital of…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… to provide any further assistance they might require and scrupulously acted in accordance with the law”. It went on to provide “the timeline and facts”‚…
ArchiveThe boycott as weapon of struggle
… in the armoury of a nation struggling for liberation and racial oppression are boycotts. The attitudes of the leaders' and intellectuals' are outlined in…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… Notes regarding a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress … Law professors. Proposed agenda includes Human Rights and…
PlaceJewish Pioneers Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
… The temple was designed by Orlando Middleton and erected by Jacob Kohler and Sons. The Port Elizabeth, Orthodox Hebrew Congregation … Jews who hah came to…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world at large continues to mourn the passing the … to every person who observed the National Day of…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… in 1659; the first male slave to be freed . He bought her and her mother’s freedom in 1671. He had been granted a plot of land, where he lived and ran a…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… Clanwilliam is famous for its rooibos tea and oranges. Situated at the foot of the Cedarberg Range … landdrost or magistrate). These were used during the…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… for women's suffrage were middle class reformers, and for them the suffrage was a means to an end with regard to influencing legislation and not connected…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… forces a licence to kill was devastating, according Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu was almost in tears and…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… University of Johannesburg Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below) Date: … struggle was not only about securing…
PlaceGroutville
… situated approximately ten kilometers south of KwaDukuza and about 69 kilometers north of Durban. The name Groutville … King Mpande was unhappy with Reverend…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and consideration. Indians have been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Act (1950) reinforced the policy of land dispossession and segregation in South Africa. In accordance with the Act, many Africans, Coloured and Indian…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… in South African cities such as Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town - the latest today in Pretoria-since the … emergency 2 weeks ago. There have been a…
ArchiveGovernment Commissions of Enquiry
… Press Digest. Compilation of press comments and editorials on 1) the van Wyk de Vries Commission of Enquiry into Universities and student affairs and 2) The…
EventGraça Machel is born
… Graça Machel, political activist and champion of children's rights, widow of Samora Machel and wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was born in Gaza,…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… Congress (ANC) insurgents launched a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station Johannesburg. … Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… Southern Africa with a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of his research in South Africa was … was passionate about paleoanthropology. An…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… Immorality Act, saying that the law was bringing misery and deprivation in its wake and turning policemen into "peeping toms". Suzman made these … to do away…
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… 1961, Tanganyika became a member of the United Nations(UN) and two years later, in 1963 it merged with the island of … historical merger between the two…