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… prisoner to die in the detention under the custody of the security police. It was after his death that with the increase of political prisoners that David…
ArchiveHousing: Fact Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1973
… 18 October 1973, discussing: Housing, resettlement, slums, state-assisted housing, hostels, forced removals. …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Artefacts in a site known as 'Gemsbok' in the north of the Orange River near present day Oranjemund is dated to … a native reserve at Hoachanas in…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… National Diploma and started her career at the Department of State Expenditure in 1992. In 1994, she applied for a job in the office of the first Democratic…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… up a new constitution for the territory as a sovereign state. More than 97% of the registered voters voted. The South West Africa … agreement which involved…
ArchiveJudge Mr De Klerk by his actions
… church leaders in South Africa perceive the South African State President FW De Klerk facing in the new Government …
ArchiveFree Enterprise and Home Ownership: Mitchells Plain Style, Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing homeownership, State-owned rentals, Group Areas Act, free enterprise. …
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… the Basotho and the Boers. All three wars were the result of conflict between the Basotho in what is now the Free State/Lesotho area and the Boers, who…
ArchiveSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
… n the sixties, discotheques and disc jockeys were unheard of. For us growing up in a youthful new era of popular culture and optimism, live bands and the…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… Mahlalela were sentenced to death for the necklace murder of M. Mpapne that took place in 1986. The state argued its case on the alleged evidence that the…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… which refers collectively to quasi-military formations of township youth who were also often known as "comrades" or … who supported the United Democratic…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt on charges of spying for the Soviet Union began in the Cape Town High … Court. The Judge President granted an…
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic of South Africa in April 1994. His announcement would mean … was to replace him as…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was … form to continue his studies through the University of South Africa…
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… in Bloemfontein, on the same day as the celebration of Dingaan's Day upon which the Voortrekker victory over the … camps. Many politicians were impressed by…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… years in jail, he had been following a gruelling schedule of rallies, meetings and interviews. His first foreign destination was the headquarters of the…
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… Three of the 22 Delmas Treason trialists were released after Judge … had failed to present a case against them after a year of court hearings and two years…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… and reformer Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and … 2, set sail for South Africa. During the…
EventThe SABS is established
… The South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) was established in terms of Act 24 of 1945. The Act was revised on several occasions … It administers compulsory…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s Slovo became a victim of the government repressive…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany … going ahead with the meeting,…
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… was published by an Afrikaner political correspondent of the Nationalist newspaper, Die Burger, which was written … gave some insight into the term …
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… university degrees in History and German at the University of Cape Town. In 1962 he founded the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) … Dulcie September. The organization…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… South African anti-apartheid journalist and former editor of The World newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died on his fiftieth … and falling into a coma. Qoboza was…
EventAnother death in police custody
… (26) died in police custody in Parys, OFS (now Free State Province). His relatives reported extensive bruising … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… Ms Pearl Tshabalala, a prominent businesswoman and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who … moves to incorporate Clermont into…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to … Union of South Africa (Transvaal,…
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… weapons in 1993, as it was initially claimed by the then State President F. W. de Klerk , and that the nuclear weapons … devices had been manufactured,…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok is the sole … appears that she has been running…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human … II who had come into power in 1921,…