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Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this urgent call to unity and mass action, by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of…
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… was born as Wessel Johannes Cronje in Bloemfontein on 25 September 1969. He made his Test debut for South Africa …
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… 25 years to the day after the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… those who did not return to school before the deadline of 25 April would be expelled. This divided the ANC between …
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… meeting between Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Kaunda on 25-26 August 1976. The two leaders were together for nearly …
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… on 4 January, 1980 and the Silverton Bank siege on January 25, 1980, in which two civilian women and three MK cadres …
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… the police version. All four accused were acquitted on 25 October 1976, the fifth day of the trial. The presiding …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… due illness. He died of scarlet fever in Simon's Town on 25 July 1831, and was buried at the Royal Observatory. …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) on 25 August 2002. The train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was …
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… A 25 year-old tour guide and student from Mangosuthu Technical …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… to delegate such powers to him. Parliament was given until 25 October 1995 to adopt the electoral legislation if the …
EventThe Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
… to white, Protestant, Afrikaner men over the age of 25. Although the organisation’s political power was evident …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… as well as 11 others are charged with incitement to riot. 25 March, Representatives of 29 African and Asian members … "in the interests of South Africa's…
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… years, by other volumes including Writers in Politics (1981 and 1997); Decolonising the Mind (1986); Moving the …
PlaceDurbanville
… roses were planted in 1979, the trial garden followed in 1981, with the official opening taking place in 1983. …
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… of general Louis Botha and only seven months later, on 25 February 1905, the church was ready to open. This occasion … were fixed and varnished (Holm et al,…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… on the mythologies of the Senufu people of Côte D’Ivoire. [25] Similarly, Mami Wata and the Monster , a story and … vs Francophone in the African Union."…
PlaceKaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
… Western corner of Kruger National Park; which is roughly 25 km East of Nelspruit, in the Mpumalanga Province. …
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
… attest to the Town's military past and had a population of 25,668 in 2011. The town was established in 1837 and became a … high and consists of a battalion…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… EwiioqTv_5HVAhXCCMAKHQxhA-IQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1093&bih=510&dpr=1.25 …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… all Chapter 24 Denis and the Children of Hout Bay Chapter 25 Denis Goldberg: Rivonia Trail's 'Baby' turns 80 Chapter 26 …
EventEnglish ship “Caesar” with William Pearse on board bound for Bantam arrives
… we kept our lead working & Gradually shoaled our water to 25 fath ouze, at which tyme we had sight of Pinguin Island …
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, banned the rally planned for 25 September 1974. But, much publicity had already gone out, … correspondence to SAHO from…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… identified by his mother. At Seipei's funeral on 25 February 1989, at Tumahole Township in the Orange Free …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… of prominent positions at the University of Cape Town. On 25 October 1999, Coetzee won the Booker Prize a second time …
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… that they had suffered, withdrew their troops on the 25 March 1994. The instability in Somalia continues to this …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… Congress(PAC) won 243 478 of the national votes (1.25%), and African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) under the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… of both medical supplies and medical staff. At least 25 000 children and women died from epidemics of dysentery, …
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… brief respite when the banning orders were not renewed in 1981. Albertina was invited to speak at meetings all over the … union and community organisations…
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… and Commercial Streets, District 6. On 31 December 1981, the Stakesby Lewis Hostel, had to close its doors and …