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Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… in jail. Monday 21 March 1960 We heard on the radio today of the frightful massacre at Sharpeville in the Transvaal … the Pass Laws . There were many dead…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… The Presbytery of South Africa announced that Dr Allan Boesak, reverend of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and leading anti…
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… Rajab was born in Durban. He was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street complex from being handed over…
Ikwezi
… in Southern Africa, published in England by "a group of South African and Southern African revolutionaries with long histories of devotion to the struggle…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… / african.pictures The 1976 Soweto riots ushered in an era of increased confrontation between the state and political organisations fighting for liberation…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Kenya around 2000BCE, and again in 1000BCE, to occupy most of the area of the country. Around 400CE Bantu-speaking … Kenya. 1873 David Livingstone dies in…
EventP. W. Botha grants reprieve to the “Sharpeville Six”
… Mokhesi), who were condemned to death for allegedly being part of a crowd that killed Kuzwayo Jacob Dlamini the deputy Mayor of Sharpeville in September 1984…
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… the 1914 Rebellion, was executed by a firing squad after being found guilty of high treason. The finding was based on the fact that he had not resigned from…
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
… in Slovakia on 24 August 2007. The team consisted of 26 members with three of the medal winners being from Mpumalanga. Though it is not a very popular sport…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the … and Afrikaans-speaking parts…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2014 submissions
… University. Project: Strong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF Andrew Bohannon Andrew Bohannon is a sophomore at … Overcoming Adversity from All Angles:…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… is situated 24 km inland from Durban; it now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality. … Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda is…
EventLesotho unable to impose sanctions against SA
… The leader of the Basutoland National Party, Chief Leabua Jonathan, … economically dependent on South Africa that the imposition of economic sanctions was…
EventSteytler launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
… Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, which was later renamed Progressive … by the government on 12 May 1962 defining the crime of sabotage in…
EventMbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate
… Three months after being inaugurated as South Africa's second president since … here to read South African History Online's chronology of President Thabo…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… I first met Aziz when I was a student at the London School of Economics. I met him through my involvement in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the National…
PlaceDwarskerbos Beach and Pools, West Coast
… Along the Western shores of South Africa there are many myriad fishing Villages which lie sleepily on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. While Paternoster is…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… the status quo. How apt therefore that the current saga of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan fits so well into this scenario. With rumours swirling, South…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 of 1956, prohibiting any outside gathering that the minister of justice saw as a threat to public peace, commenced. It ……
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… Post constantly clashed with the government, from the time of President Kenneth Kaunda up until President Rupiah Banda’s … times for his reporting. M’membe…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for…
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… Mandela's only surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, died of HIV/AIDS in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. His … and announced that his son had HIV/Aids…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by … dead a “guileless, slightly built…
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior … in the face. Verwoed was sitting at his…
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… anti-apartheid activists were released in Cape Town after being detained for up to two years under the Internal … Rasool, Mountrain Qumbela and Hilda Ndude,…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… Six. After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, … Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, which…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… they were suing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president, Nelson Mandela, for more than two million rands, the equivalent value of…
Says no to xenophobia, 19 April 2015
… in our country. We have further called on the people of Africa to unite against these atrocities being committed in the name of South Africa and the law…
EventAfrican delegates urge U Thant to enter Nelson Mandela fray
… Secretary-General U Thant to help obtain the release of Nelson Mandela, leader and co-founder of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested…