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EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe …
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 September 1988. Subject to fairly recent refurbishment and external … attrib Sunday Tribune Dec 25, 1988; attrib NIA…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… and the detention of activists, but also, from February 1988, a de facto proscription of SANSCO. Although I cover … of responsibility to the legacy of SASO. …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
South Africa’s Maritime History The Suez Canal allows for ships from Europe to travel to the East with ease. Before the canal was opened European ships had…
Learning about history through writing
… South Africa wins the tournament, defeating New Zealand 15-12. Following South Africa's victory, Nelson Mandela, the …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… the second Ruth First Memorial Lecture in Maputo. 1988 The film A World Apart is released. The screenplay is …
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit to the Eastern Cape. His aim was to…
The strangulation of activity
… was banned in the Transkei. This ban was lifted in June 1988 under the military rule of General Bantu Holomisa. The … in 1983, was banned in February 1986 in…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… had to struggle to put it onto the agenda ’ (Patel 1988). Even men in the political organisations, in the … political and ideological conditions’ of the time…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Presents a paper entitled: Apartheid - the Indictment 12 June Gives a press release in Dar es Salaam December Gives … United Against Apartheid, For A…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… resistance from the colonized peoples of Namibia. 1904 12 January The Herero declare war on the Germans. Samuel … becomes South Africa's Administrator…
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 December 1988. …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 20 May 1988. The Hugh Eksteen Photographic Museum contains, over …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… Namibia. References: The Namibian War of Independence 1966-1988, Wars of the World [online]. Available at: onwar.com …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… African government, and later sent to Robben Island. In 1988, the South African government, under a UN brokered peace …
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… ANC office in Stockholm in Sweden was bombed. In March 1988 the ANC's Chief Representative in France Dulcie …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… schools, was brutally attacked by police. On September 12, 1977 Steve Bantu Biko died while in custody. Soon after, … Pascal Gwala’ from Poetry International…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… xvi SA condemns N.Korea nuke test South Africa February 12 2013 Republic of Korea Oscar Pistorius shoots his … Coetzee Bodies linked to Winnie exhumed South…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… The trial of 12 SASO and BPC leaders detained since September 1974. The charge sheet consisted of 81 pages. The 12 are accused of participating in terrorist…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… victims had no time to prepare or protect themselves. On 12 January several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … and thirst as they fled through the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… gross domestic savings of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 12.5 per cent in the year 2000, relaxation of exchange …
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… legislation such as the Pass laws 3 October, 12 African leaders issue A Call for African Unity 1949 … as Freedom Day in South Africa by the congress movement…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… a British Colony. This was ratified by a Proclamation on 12 May, with Henry Cloete, Advocate of the Supreme Court in … on 4 December, and was sworn in at…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… school students join the South African Students Movement 12 May, Saso holds formation school at Federal Theological … At a mass meeting at St John’s…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… at these institutions. At UCT, black students constituted 12.4% of the total student body; at Natal 21.3%, and at … condition for, the development of…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… for economic and labour-market failure. Kindly RSVP by 12 May 2014 Cape Town : HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… to accept U.N.-supervised elections in Namibia. Finally in 1988, South Africa agreed to give up Namibia as part of a …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… made clear.The government responded by banning the ECC in 1988. However, the following year the length of conscription …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… on the country for refusing to hand over suspects of the 1988 bombing in 1991. In 1997, after the fall of apartheid, … , [online] Available at www.sahistory…