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EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… on 9 May 2004 after spending two weeks in a coma. Her death was reported to have been caused by a cocaine overdose. …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… in front of his 15-year-old daughter Nomakhwezi. The death of the leader of the armed wing of the ANC and popular …
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… later served as Vice President to Nasser. Following the death of Nasser in September 1970 Sadat took over the reins …
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… these two groups to a preliminary Unity Conference; (iv) It decided to meet annually instead of triennially, and …
Address at the Opening of the 24th General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, 1 December 2003
… our continent leave behind a haunting legacy not only of death but of war veterans who need the closest attention and … in Rwanda in a mere 100 days in 1994…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… so strong that he had to do anything he could to avoid the death sentence. I understood that, but also knew that my life … knew that there was a mass of…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… of their deaths. Although many aficionados knew of Mekoa’s death within hours of the event, it took most of the media … up, tailing after tributes from…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… Project the Glasgow Centre for Population Health gives the death rate of people in the city as 21 per 1000 per annum in … Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… massacre in the history of South Africa resulted in the death of 69 men, women and children and 186 wounded, after … Socialism and World Peace" Condolences…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… gain in momentum to become an avalanche that will strike a death blow to oppression in South Africa. From Treason Trial …
Indian Opinion
… edited by Sushila Gandhi (Manilal's wife) after Manilal's death. This was to promote nationhood and represent the …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… streets of Soweto, but sadly the march culminated in the death of Hector Peterson. The Apartheid Government had, in …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… He became the acting President of the ANC after the death of ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli in 1967 and was …
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… him in the National Party, but only succeeded him on his death. …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… arrest in his home in Galeshewe, Kimberley, until his death. …
EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
… to the victims of the Bisho Massacre, who were shot to death by the Ciskei Defence Force troops on 7 September 1992. …
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… about South African Defence Force involvement in death squads and the ongoing violence in the rand and Natal …
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… His father remained in the service of the DEIC until his death, upon which Simon went to Batavia, a colony in Java. …
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… a son and a daughter. The exact details surrounding her death are not clear. … [Accessed 3 June 2009]| "Rain Queen's death 'a mystery'" [online] Available…
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… system and causes paralysis, deformation and sometimes death. This disease often affects young children, most …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… here to read about Nelson Mandela's reaction to Botha's death … at: news24.com [accessed 29 october 2009]| IOL, "PW's death a reminder of 'divided past'" …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… Daniel Arap Moi took over the presidency after Kenyatta’s death and managed to convince Odinga to come back to the …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… struggling for a gun with a police officer. He bled to death on the scene. …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… almost a year after Mozambican President Samora Machel’s death. Three years before this attack, President Michel …
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his …
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
… woman of the Orange Free State to be condemned to death and executed, and the first woman officially executed … She became the first documented woman to be…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… other anti-apartheid organisations, the suspension of the death sentence until further review, the release of some … the police after young activist Meshack…
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… Nations and which has as its primary aim the punishment by death of people who are among South Africa's most outstanding … show that a person accused of…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… of Mpophomeni the following morning results in the death of Alpheus Nkabinde and the injury of at least twenty …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… president of the IFP until 2019 and an MP until his death. He had an uneasy relationship with King Goodwill … , the Zulus monarch since 1971. With the king…