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EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola … leadership nearly 10 million South Africans are receiving state…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… Jacobus "Kobie" Coetsee, former minister of justice in the government of F.W De Klerk, was born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. Both his parents were…
EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… Voster was elected to the unprecedented honorary position of State President. However, his spell in the new office was … scandal, named after Dr Connie…
EventNational Housing Department introduces new plan
… eliminate informal housing structures within a timeframe of ten years. The minister further indicated that the current … housing-subsidy would be replaced by…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… top South African award, in protest against the Protection of State Information Bill, which was passed by Parliament on … two reasons. Firstly in protest…
EventBilateral talks to continue
… was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the continuation of talks toward a…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… self-government status by Britain, according to the terms of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, signed between representatives of the two Boer Republics and…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Fischer was deeply concerned, and which are also concerns of the Legal Resources Centre. But as this is the first Bram … a close confidante of President…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being … Lord Milner introcuced a strongly centralised and state controlled system of…
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… Two members of the extreme right-wing group, Boeremag, Dirk Hanekom and … Zyl, were apprehended on a farm in Memel district, Free State. They were taken into…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine … left their own areas in places like the…
PlaceSophiatown
… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … On 9 February 1955, the head of the…
Indian Community
… 2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth … itself in Indian education and by 1885, there were 24 state…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading, comes … archived history through his photography,…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… 1994 in provinces such as Gauteng, Western Cape, Free State, Limpopo and KwaZulu Natal. There has been this and much speculation of the causes and triggers…
ArchiveStaatsveiligheidraad, 16 Julie 1979: Besluite
… Decisions made at a State Security Coucil meeting held on 16 July 1979. …
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who … states along the…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
… to his knees in elation after equalling his own record of 13.07sec that he had set in his heat on the previous … a cerebral palsy athlete from Jagersfontein…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist … of the total society and the profits…
ArchiveAzikwelwa E Thembisa
… to unite with students in stayaways planned to oppose state oppression …
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… Adam Habib Habib: We generally start off with the question of trying to get people’s own conceptions of what they feel … these NGOs impact on the leadership…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954 In analysing a subject of this nature [... ] it is necessary to warn against a … for self-determination, that is, the right…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency, Dr Boutrous … during the period January, 1992 to June 1992. Control of state…
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… with Julius K. Nyerere (1922-1999), the first president of Tanzania (known as Tanganyika until 1964). He served as … he stepped down temporarily to work on…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for Bophuthatswana to remain an independent…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … on them, but is also pregnant with economic evil to the state…
27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … The Republican position was that the law empowered the State to…