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EventThe trial of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act begins
… and terrorism between May 1976 and October 1977. On 11 May, 1979they were convicted of sedition and sentenced to …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History (1963). Abrahams drew for his inspiration in his early poetry …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Pretoria and Johannesburg. Between December 1961 and June 1963 more than 200 installations were attacked with a …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… football from 1961 to 1992 (with a one-year reprieve in 1963), South Africa maintained tenuous links with the major …
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… by hand and aided in the overall construction of the dam. [11] Even though these men were given meager wages, the … of Men”, Water History, (Vol 8), (No. 2),…
PlaceDe Goede Verwachting, 17 Cavalcade Road, Green Point
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 September 1964. …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 April 1980. The reserve was named after …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… parties. Subsequently, Mandela was released from prison on 11 February, 1990. …
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… The date is given as 14 March in another source, but 11 March is mentioned in the official declaration by the …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P. Campbell formed a …
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 473. …
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… in South Africa. The conference will be held from 08-11 October 2013 in the Kimberley, Northern Cape, under the …
EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… Cape. Today, the town has a population of just over 11 000. It is a thriving small town with a booming sheep …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… report in The International, January 14, 1916. Document 11: '170 Million Recruits', editorial in The International, … - Notes of the Conference',The…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… 11 th Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Popular Education: … its first tour of South Africa. The colloquium (9:00 – 11:30, UWC) is for invited popular…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Africa . Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991. (chapters 11-13) Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho. Native Life in South … in South Africa . Craighall, Ad Donker,…
PlaceJosephine Mill, Boundary Road, Newlands
… which was built in 1840. Its machinery ceased operation in 1963 and it was decided to renovate and reconstruct the mill …
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… a move towards independence had already developed and in 1963 the colony was granted self-governance leading to full …
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… important works on race. By the time of his death in 1963 he had written 17 books and edited four journals, and …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… between 1960 and 1994, including the Rivonia Trial in 1963/1964 at which Mr. Nelson Mandela and other leaders of …
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… National Botanical Garden dates back to 1965. During the 1963 Kirstenbosch Jubilee Year Tour it was decided that the …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… organizational problems and the arrest of its leaders in 1963. Despite this, its formation was commemorated every year …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… her bus was forced to turn around and go back to Natal. [11] On 9 August 1956 she was involved in a demonstration … was incarcerated under the Suppression…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 9, 10, 11 and 16 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… of the franchise leading to eventual African rule. On 11 November, the Smith government issued a unilateral …
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… On 27 October 2005 at about 11.30pm, the Trans Karoo Express collided with a stationary …
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… early 2011, leading to fears of a repeat of the disaster 11 years earlier. The floods, however, turned out to be less …
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… declaration of independence for Katanga province on 11 July. The intervention by UN troops followed Patrice …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… dead and scores injured. Following the proclamation, 11 727 people were detained. In April 1960, the government …