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EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… Ndimene alleged that the Selous Scouts of Pietersburg and Five Reconnaissance Regiment (5RR), part of the SA … was composed of former members of the Special…
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… He landed on the KwaZulu-Natal coast on Christmas in 1497, and thus named the area Terra do Natal, or Christmas Country … from memory 20 years after he had…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the beginning of 1969 for the relocation of … September “Europeans from Pretoria”…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… of protests, intense discourses, marches, sit-ins, and dialogue all beneath the umbrella of the #RhodesMustFall … White supremacy, institutional racism,…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… Jacob Zuma, National Chairperson Baleka Mbete, Organising and Campaigns Chairperson Fikile Mbalula and members of the ANC NEC sub-committee on Organising and…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South Africa we express to you … has shattered the infamous conspiracy of Reza…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… negotiations. South Africa itself denies political and economic rights her 8,000,000 Africans. 83 percent Land … cable regarding South West Africa. "My…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent … movements from Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… be returned to the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Dr. Abrahams and three other South West African People's Organisation … some of South Africa's neighbouring…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… Ashwin Valjee "Papa" Mullah, P.R. Maistry, D. Groenewald and Cassim Meer. Although talented in the game of table … did not get the blessings of the South…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… R.D. Pilkington-Jordan E.D. This step improved discipline and assured uniformity in procedure. The Military Police was … centres such as Defence Headquarters…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… were protesting against apartheid laws that restricted and dictated their education. The black youth had been … Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC…
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… socialist policies failed to improve the economy of Zambia and when copper prices collapsed in the mid seventies, the … on the Zambian government to…
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… of Nigeria. This declaration came after two military coups and two major pogroms against the Igbo (Ibo) people in … the southern provinces. There was also an…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the outskirts of Paarl and was driven the 60 kms to Cape Town by African National … for hours to see him. He started by…
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… seven others injured. The deceased were Clive Clucas and Linus Marais. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Dumakude, who applied … intersection…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda, attended a five-nation summit in Pretoria , … development of Southern Africa by sanctions,…
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve … chanted Movement of Democratic…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… Action Group, the Christian Lawyers' Association, and Christians for Truth, who asked the Pretoria High Court … Zuma, together with the Reproductive Rights…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… licence. This licence was awarded on the 30 March 1998, and the channel, which was to be ETV, began broadcasting in … willingness to defend the South African…
PlaceReitz
… riders. A shop owner named Singer opened a store there and managed the post, which became known as Singer's Post. With the arrival of a blacksmith and a few…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… for Cosmos, though he also had stints with Sundowns and international teams like FC Zurich and FC Baden. He was one of the first few players to play for ……
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… from 1957 until he died in 1966 when he was kidnapped and killed in the country’s first military coup. Balewa’s … their regions from the influence of the…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… at all costs globally. The organisation would prevent war and disputes between countries by either engaging the … against an aggressor country. It was…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… safety", without any appeal to the courts. Public meetings and gatherings were typically outlawed as well. During the … on a crowd of 300 unarmed protesters…
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… Trade Unions (COSATU), United Democratic Front (UDF) and National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) gathered to … June 16. The call was issued to all South…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 28 March 1983, Volume 59
… Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management and functions,…
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… students into supporting the national democratic movement and helping to ensure the non-racial character of this … the success of the Union in politicising,…
50 years of forced removals under apartheid
… Claremont, for example, will be represented as well, and all other communities who experienced forced removals are … them. The programme will end with…
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… a friendly official relationship with Taiwan post-1994 and was duly rewarded with economic aid this changed in 1996. … decided to move closer China as a…