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EventUnited Nations Charter is adopted
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 78. History of the United Nations. Website: …
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… Court judge, to investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February 1990, the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the …
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… the independence of the republic. Once war was declared on 11 October 1899, the Free State joined Transvaal in the …
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… On 5 February 1956, 11 Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences escaped from …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Sabata , paramount chief of the Transkei , was deposed. 11 August, Chief Dalindyebo flees to Swaziland , Tembu … because the new plan continued to exclude…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… or leave the areas where they lived and worked. In May 1952, Solly Sachs, despite having been expelled from the … political organisations. This was on the…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… in Johannesburg as part of the anti-election campaign. 11 May: On behalf of the ANC, Xuma responds to the … . 7 June: Xuma speaks at the funeral of Pixley…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… Nonyamezelo Mxenge , is murdered allegedly by the police. 11 August, activists all across the border region, attend a … the country organise a defiance…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… men who then ran away. The brothers burnt to death. On May 11 2008, an outburst of xenophobic violence in the … sending all the foreigners packing and…
ArticleThe Arniston
… The rest of the Arniston’s passengers washed up until 11 July 1815 and were buried behind the dunes (Story of the …
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… the Fire in the Overstrand. News24 reported at 2019-01-04 11:30 by Duncan Alfreds- The Weather and Terrain is making it …
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… after a raid by security police at Lilliesleaf farm on 11 July 1963, the police arrested many prominent leaders of … Publishers|Hepple, B. Rivonia: The Story…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… been kidnapped in Bechuanaland by South African forces on 11 August 1963*. This was one of the first instances of …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… this date is under dispute as some sources consider the 11 April 1979 as the date Amin fled Uganda. … Idi Amin is the Greatest Ugandan' . UNAA Times […
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… only" applied to public areas, including park benches. On 11 March 1978, the Apartheid government agreed to eliminate …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… anti-abortion groups were responding to an act passed on 11 December 1996. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906, Gandhi adopted his approach to non-violent …
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… of a threat to peace and prosperity in South Africa. On 11 December 1878, under the flimsy pretext of a few minor …
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… ceremony, July 1947 (Lembede family, Umbumbulu) 10-11. Lembede's gravesite, Croesus cemetery, Johannesburg …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… called on the prime minister, General J.C. Smuts , on 11 February and urged him to postpone the legislation, …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… held under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. 1977 September 11 Biko is transferred to Pretoria. He was driven naked and …
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… across the media and popular culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks affected the Western attitudes towards Muslims. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Zeerust in the District of Rustenberg the second son of 11 children, to Samuel Segogwane and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, …
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. ... read more 1977 11 September, Biko is transferred to Pretoria. He was driven …
English Settlement in South Africa
… and Major General James Craig sailed into False Bay on 11 June 1775, the British produced papers claiming that they …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… which sprout out of the colonisation process at the Cape. [11] The nomadic Khoikhoi, who moved around the Cape according … at: https://www.sahistory.org.za…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… They further took hold of his private part with a plier [11] . When the transformation to an Askari was not possible, … Apartheid Death Squads, 1979–1994…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… and was an ANC sympathizer. The three groups left on 9,11 and 13 December. The first group, led by Tshweni, headed … they called for reinforcements from…