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ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… the “the Bantu Authorities would operate over their dead bodies and he was the “Boot-Licker of Verwoerd ”, the South …
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… Nationalist Party, most of the important and influential bodies of public opinion have clearly decided to talk it out. … Convention movement which has the…
Buddhism
… Reincarnation is the rebirth of a living thing after death into a new body, a human, animal or a supernatural …
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… is a tragedy on an epic level. The official figure of the death toll to white Boer women and children in the camps is … erosion of Boer culture and the…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… He wrote Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica eight years before his death, at the age of twenty four. There were initially uncertainties around the exact year of his…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing … attacks in Kimberley and East London, which results in the death of…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… as Mozambique's first president. At the time of his death, Machel had been in power for 11 years. On the day of … returning from an African leaders’ summit…
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… This finally emerged as the National Party that won the 1948 elections, became the ruling party of South Africa for …
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but colonialism and oppression of the African majority …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… of White representatives. The National Party victory in 1948 saw Coloureds completely disenfranchised, with their …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… the apartheid. The apartheid government was in power from 1948 to 1994 and created unfair laws in order to segregated … He describes the agony he felt when…
Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg
… reads: “I am khanga - I wrap myself around the curvaceous bodies of women all over Africa. I am the perfect nightdress …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… started by the Communist Party and the fact that no more bodies of men executed will be allowed burial outside gaol …
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in South Africa. In this context it is necessary to … prepares its Report on the basis of…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… last year. About seventy people are presently on death row awaiting their turn on the gallows, with many more … measures prove insufficient, the deployment…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… the latter day Gandhi Square. At the time of Babla's death I don't think John Vorster Square existed. Regards, … locate the core material on the anti…
South African and World leaders
… where Albertina Sisulu was the only women present. In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she … in 2000. Nkosi lost his battle to the…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… caused intense anger in Black communities. From 1939 to 1948 South Africa participated in the Second World War and … that Passes be abolished they remained…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… came from a wide range of sources, including student bodies, unions, various newspapers, writers and artists and … harsh laws: detentions, political trials…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… open his stomach. The magistrate at the inquest into his death found that his death was caused by the act of some unknown person or … were policemen and…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… boycotts against existing institutions and Parliamentary bodies. Such controversies existed in the left movements in … clearly between their own…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… a statement in his last will and testament just before his death in 1904. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of … attracted to the ADP. The ADP was kept…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… Richard Turner was assassinated. Turner met his untimely death on the night of 8 January 1978 when he was shot through … concerning his murder, no one was…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… five years in prison with the possible imposition of the death penalty. (2.1) The Terrorism Act specified what could … a minimum of five years in prison or…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… became King around the age of nine or ten after the death of his father Akhenaten. DNA analysis of Tutankhamen’s … defects that could possibly have led to…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a … of Guinea. Conte’ was president of Guinea up…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… to power of the National Party for the sixth time since 1948, but with a reduced majority. There is an overall swing … Ahmed Timol , a Moslem teacher, has…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… was an executive committee member of TUCSA. Following the death of her husband Jimmy Bolton, Secretary of the furniture …