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BiographyWilliam Cock
… retire to England. He dissolved his Cape Town partnership. Before sailing, he went to the Kowie River to spend a short … the original shares of £16 13s. 4d…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… Coloured politics took another direction in the 1950s. Before the introduction of Apartheid, there were existing … made a breakthrough when it managed to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceWindermere
… such as Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) honed their skills before achieving fame later. Location and infrastructure … lives were marred by prejudiced policy…
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…
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
… at the Fort Prison in Hillbrow, Johannesburg , Transvaal, before being moved to spend her three-year jail sentence at …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… that Curries was at one time used for motor racing. 1940 Chief Scout Sir Baden Powell was welcomed by Indian …
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…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… senior then brought an urgent application to the Supreme Court for an order on the Commissioner of Police and Colonel … allegedly written by Mr. Timol during…