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ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… South African Students' Organisation (SASO) led by Steve Biko, through which they planned to formulate their own … studies at the University of Natal in 1967…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… as 10,000 whites leave the country. 1965 February 24 – The death of Goan socialist Pinto comes as the first of several … an end to the rebellion. Twelve…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… camps. The abhorrent conditions in these camps caused the death of 4 177 women, 22 074 children under sixteen and 1 676 … handed over. 4 December, Lord…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
… The Prohibition Years by Ronnie Joel; Modderdam, Death of a Shanty Town by Andrew Silk; Art and Society, Art …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… and all other political prisoners already sentenced to death. Britain, together with the US, France and Brazil, …
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… her house with a revolver, shooting one of them. The final death toll was seven, including five Poqo members: Godfrey …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… the United Nations. His banning order prevailed until his death in 1967. …
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death at the age of 21. Later, a reprieve was granted and his …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… time the South African Defense Force (SADF) celebrated the death of Slovo before it came to light that the person killed …
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… people, and that rejoining Nigeria, would mean certain death. On 13 of April 1968, Tanzania became the first country …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… America (Canada) and remained in this position until his death in 1849. …
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… a Supreme Court judge in the Cape Colony and following his death Percy Fitzpatrick travelled to the Eastern Transvaal, …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… in Natal since the beginning of March, the highest death toll in three years. According to De Klerk the decision …
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
… of his loyalty to the British government. Following the death of Luka, Britain launched an operation which left …
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… a Dictaphone and a typing assistant. By the time of his death in 1932, Wallace was living in Hollywood and had become …
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Mosque was Imam Abdol Roef, who served as Imam until his death in February 1863. The next recorded Imam was Imam Abdol … as the official home of the…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… had already taken a firm resolution which said "Freedom or Death", and firmly believed that no matter how difficult the … to the gallows, living up to the MK…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… of September’s activist work and influence, her tragic death in 1988 was never fully investigated, and remains one … life, career as an anti-apartheid…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Similarly, one of the public protests that resulted in death of a protestor which sparked anger across the country …
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… community and separation from it is sometimes worse than death. A believer's family still has influence over him or …
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… and cause mesothelioma, leading to a lingering and painful death. Before starting the series, Goldblatt asked his doctor … photographs show victims of the…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… life imprisonment. 1966 Prime Minister Verwoerd stabbed to death in the House of Assembly (Parliament) by a white … mass action with ‘armed propaganda.’…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… an inquest into the circumstances of Looksmart Ngudle’s death, the state places a banning order on him, as a banned … result he becomes the first person to…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… as he was “frightened” when committing theft causes the death of Arthur Jarvis (Paton 139). Paton utilises this case … to shoot him” (Paton 140). The…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… the HRC has become aware of 2 major effects. Firstly, death and injury caused to the community primarily in the … in activities falling outside the…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… he was first jailed and then kept incommunicado until his death in 1969. …
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… Gazankulu (one of the 8 homelands) for 24 years, until his death on 23 March 1993. Ntsan’wisi, who had the blood cancer, …
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… torture. Sipiwe Bholo and Sipho Gavin were sentenced to death three times (later commuted to life sentences) while …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… All were members of the African National Congress. The death of Xolo came after a series of killings and arson. …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a …