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EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… Three leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Archibald Gumede, Paul … Government was hot on their heels for organising a boycott of elections…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… no two individuals look alike. There are two subspecies of Mountain Zebra, namely, the Cape Mountain Zebra and … Zebra. These two subspecies used to be a…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… In terms of the notorious Group Areas Act (1950), the following proclamation was made in June 1958: … Africans would be shifted. Indians will lose 2,891…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utility over its first … of electricity…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of South…
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… up and severely injured by a compatriot, who accused him of betraying the Indian cause. In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act forcing…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, … the Agreement gave in the Industrial…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Over the past century South Africa has…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 Jon Soske Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of History University of … a name which is not his. To refer to us…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 June 1927, prohibited Africans … brewery trade. On 28 January 1928, however…
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… Port Shepstone is one of the largest Towns of the KwaZulu Natal South Coast in South Africa . Port … is a popular tourist destination and offers a diversity…
The strangulation of activity
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The classical freedoms of association, assembly and…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… 1977, The World and Weekend World were banned. The editor of The World, Percy Qoboza, who became the editor of City Press in 1984, was taken into detention…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town covers what is probably the most crucial quarter ……
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … The defendants faced two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of…
PlaceTunisia
… kilometres and is home to 10.6 million people. The capital of Tunis is home to nearly 800,000 people, though over 60% of the population lives in urban…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman … to the…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… Forty eight hours ago P.W. Botha announced a state of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand … as Kwa Thema. People have been murdered by…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… Forty eight hours ago P.W. Botha announced a state of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand … as Kwa Thema. People have been murdered by…
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonated a … guards at the stadium. Dumakude also testified that…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, an armed offshoot of the Pan Africanist Congress …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in … to more militant protests, by the 1950s and…
XIII - The Courts
… exist they tend to play a significant role in the system of domination. They normally claim a monopoly of the right to sanction the use of force, and they…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… On 1 May 1979, the first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. The … was set up by the government after the Durban strikes of…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against … Fischer was arrested under the…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the … first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… Matthews , was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana … a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … in power, have wiped out every…