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EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… constitution was eventually agreed upon and adopted in 1993. On 27 April 1994, the nation finally cast its vote in … was inaugurated as the President of…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… The legal basis for land restitution is provided by the 1993 Interim Constitution, section 25(7) of the 1996 … of Land Rights Act. The South African…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979 …
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… the keeping of such lists. There was now also a period of 10 days specified for detaining a person without trial after …
BiographyLindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
Lindiwe Sisulu was born on the 10th of May 1954, in Johannesburg. She is the daughter of African National Congress (ANC) veterans, Walter and Albertina Sisulu…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
BiographyStrinivasa “Strini” Moodley
… to SASO and the Black People's Convention (BPC). On 10 October 1974 he was arrested and detained in Pretoria …
BiographyJonathan Shapiro
Born in Cape Town in 1958 and also known as Zapiro. Could not imagine a career in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not…
BiographyNorman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
… guerrilla. At the time of his recruitment, Pietersen was 15-years-old and the youngest member of his MK unit led by …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… ANC. 1976 Moroka retires as a medical practitioner. 1985 10 November, Moroka dies at Thaba Nchu. 1993 6 February, Nelson Mandela visits the grave of Moroka…
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
… On 10 April 1993, Thembisile Chris Hani was shot and killed as … AWB. With him was his daughter, Nomakhwezi, then 15 years old. His wife, Limpho, and two…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
… of the Port Elizabeth Boycott Committee in 1985. On 15 July 1985, the consumer boycott of white owned stores in …
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had died…
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… December. In December we were charged with treason with 15 others. We were acquitted in May 1986". In 1981 Sewpersadh …
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
… of the Port Elizabeth Boycott Committee in 1985. On 15 July 1985, the consumer boycott of white owned stores in …
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… Wilson Curtis died at his home in White Bay, Tasmania on 15 February 2007 after a long illness. He is survived by his … Website, (2007), Neville Wilson…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
… Ronald Kasrils was born in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on 15 November 1938. His grandparents were immigrants from …
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… had rejected her parents’ Christian beliefs when she was 15 years old, and she rebelled against stereotypical images …
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… and for statutory sabotage. He was sentenced to a total of 15 years on 6 May 1966 to Robben Island. In an interview with …
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a … been. At the end of the first week of December…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Vuyani Mavuso ANC ANC/MK Dlamini handed himself over to C-10, Mavuso was captured in the Matola raid, both were shot … dead by passing motorist. - Thabong,…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… very residence there was on sufferance, under section 10 of the Bantu Urban Areas Act. The fiction was that they … The epitaph chosen for his father on his…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… Constantia and sold ‘for the benefit of his heirs’. [10] In accordance with his will 60 people noted as his … der Stels (Hermanus: Penstock Publishing, 2012…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… His father died when he was an infant, and when he was 10 years old his mother sent him to the family's traditional … it. He opted to stay as a teacher…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… on the Assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani , 10 April 1993. Online: … in South Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998. 15. W.J…
BiographyCedric Nunn
… and continued his schooling until standard eight (Grade 10). After leaving high school he worked at Huletts Sugar …
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) when he was 10. In 1940, after finishing school, he signed up to join the …
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… by the police. She was taken to Marshall Square. A brutal 10-hour interrogation, intimidation and torture followed. …
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… English and then by the Dutch). A young Krotoa, of about 10 or 11 years old, was taken in by Jan van Riebeeck during …