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ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
EventMandela confirms the appointment of first Black Chief Justice
… the historic appointment of the first Black Supreme Court Judge in South Africa. Ismail Mahomed was interviewed … which makes its recommendation to the…
Safety and security issues
… of the complainant. The Act allows women to approach the court to apply for a protection order against their abusive … laid at police stations, the cases…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… 8 April, Police arrest scores of Poqo supporters before the planed uprising on this date took place. Ahmed … together with 14 other people in the Pretoria…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… most people infected with HIV carry the virus for years before enough damage is done to the immune system for AIDS to …
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… style. He held his first solo exhibition in 1939 and in 1940; the Johannesburg Art Gallery purchased one of his … he could play several musical instruments…
Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 11 April 1936
… Drew THE WORKERS PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA P.O. Box 1940 Cape Town South Africa 11.4.1936 I … printing becomes urgent, lest our secret…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… constitutionally valid. In March 2011 the Constitutional Court ruled that the legislation establishing the Hawks was … guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… claimants were allowed direct access to the Land Claims Court and the Minister of Land Affairs was given greater … year 2000. The Land Claims Commission and…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… builder is J.J Kirkness. Landdros Kantoor or Magistrates Court is built on the north east corner of Koch and Pretorius … residential suburb. The last tram…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Life Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Property Rights and Rent Seeking in … only passed after great difficulty. Firstly…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… in a building opposite the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. 25 August: Clara Bridgman invites Xuma to speak at the … Xuma participates in a debate on…
The Choice of Termination Act is Enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… organisations lost an appeal in the Pretoria Supreme Court that claimed that the Choice on Termination of … because it violated the right to life. The court…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
Writer’s of The Constitution
… still had to be certified by the Constitutional Court. This meant that the Constitutional Court had to make sure that the final Constitution followed …
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
… at the Fort Prison in Hillbrow, Johannesburg , Transvaal, before being moved to spend her three-year jail sentence at …
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… of the system of local government in the Transkei. 1940 January 4, Govan Mbeki marries Ma Mofokeng. 1941 Govan … They are saved from this situation by a…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
PlaceWindermere
… such as Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) honed their skills before achieving fame later. Location and infrastructure … lives were marred by prejudiced policy…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… Means of Substance: Slumyard Culture in Johannesburg, 1918-1940”. In Belinda Bozzoli (ed.), Town and Countryside in the … stronger links with working-class…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
… Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to … van der Merwe were to assist Seriti, but both…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… held a press conference in the garden on 12 February 1990 before travelling to Johannesburg. What also followed the … amnesty. They were granted bail pending…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… I made it quite clear that I had never been intimidated before and had no intention of running away from the struggle … such as I had never seen. Even those…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… are incarcerated all night and next morning are taken up before a magistrate and fined. That your memorialists are … beg most respectfully to state that the…
EventThe Choice of Termination Act is enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… organisations lost an appeal in the Pretoria Supreme Court that claimed that the Choice on Termination of … because it violated the right to life. The court…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… that Curries was at one time used for motor racing. 1940 Chief Scout Sir Baden Powell was welcomed by Indian …
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… In Pretoria things had changed at court. Our van drove through the gates of the old synagogue. … declared illegal. It was also my birthday and Hannah, even…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… of the most beautiful harmonies in the evening, shortly before the 8 o’clock bell for lights out. Gradually all the … i’Afrika and many other songs through…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… I made it quite clear that I had never been intimidated before and had no intention of running away from the struggle … such as I had never seen. Even those…