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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) before its dissolution is held in Johannesburg. It attacks … South Africa declares that it dissolves…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… without deviation, to the bench of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the position of chief justice. It … In an address to the Cape Law Society…
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the ANC - 20 September 2008
… of the ANC has deliberated on the Pietermaritzburg Court judgement on the 12th of September by Judge Chris … ANC has decided to recall the President of the…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… apartheid regime. On 30 January 1985, the Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the SAMDC to hold an inquiry into the conduct … two doctors who treated Steve Biko…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… for the murder of Amy Biehl in the Cape Town High Court in October 1994 and sent to jail. They applied for … one and Part two of the testimony of the four…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… damages after his release and was paid R3000 in an out-of-court settlement. None of the police implicated in Moufhe’s … related to police torture, might be…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… (kanaal is the Afrikaans for ‘canal’.) District Six before its destruction under Apartheid , was a community … vacant lot, shown on maps as the Suburb of…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… a further 5,8 metres. When the servitude proceedings came before the ' Water Cour t'; it was agreed that nothing … Wall at Lake Mentz, this Case was heard at…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… we must be ready early next morning and he would fetch us. Before dawn, we were collected in a truck with our goods and … that the police struck. Like many…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… reported all over the Rand (ibid. 209) Between 1938 and 1940 all of the Reef municipalities established municipal … police. One person was killed and one…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… and destroys the ANC offices in Islington, London, shortly before the beginning of a mass rally organized by the … blast destroys the cells behind the Langa…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… implement its apartheid policies with even more zeal than before. Yet the idiosyncrasy of South Africa could not render … unprecedented nationwide publicity,…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… Lekhuleni, at the trial held at the Kabhokweni Magistrates Court, without any provocation, the apartheid army and police … to be known as the Lowveld…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… its 926 adherents in 1925 became 2000 by 1935 and 8000 by 1940. In the next 2 years, membership of the church had …
Durban an Overview
… in 1925, and total berthage of over 5600 m. On 5 April 1940 a Marine Airport for flying boats was opened on the site …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… refuses the aid of an attorney, on the grounds that the court has no jurisdiction over him because it cannot be … for setting up a joint training programme…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… He is released on 18 December 1980 after the Supreme Court has, on 5 December 1980, ruled an appeal that his … or be forcibly removed. The families lodge an…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… off farms, during the lull in agricultural production before the War, into factory work. This resulted in a greater … were extremely low in the food and…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
… originated from Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal – KZN) before moving to settle in the Eastern Cape in what is now …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… he attended Shamweti Primary School until standard II before transferring to Chisengalumbwe. Between 1965 and 1969 …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… with the rest of the group, is arrested. After a brief court appearance the men are freed and taken by the United … for setting up a joint training programme…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 500 UWC students march to the Bellville Magistrate's Court were 15 students appeared on a number of charges … coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… from Xhosa warriors. The attackers eventually turn back before reaching Uitenhage. 1837 6 February, Port Elizabeth … resolves to build a Power Station at…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… ”” could I get there in time to speak for five minutes before twelve o'clock? Fortunately Use Wilson, Bram Fischer's … succeeding and there would still…
PlaceAlexandra, Township in Johannesburg
… when it was brought under direct Government control. In 1940 residents of Alexandra embark on a boycott of Public … Life: Factories, Townships and Popular…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… He had been turning the idea around in his mind from 1921 before he approached the Afrikaner Broederbond to put his idea in motion. Before the congress, on…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… date which shall be a date after 8 October 1990 and before 6 December 1993 ”¦ providing for the mechanisms, … set by the Post-amble of our Interim…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… law or common law goes against the Constitution then a court will say it is invalid. In other words, it can't apply …
South African Constitution 1996
… made provision for the establishment of a constitutional court which is the final arbitrator of the interoperation of …
ArticleXhosa
… Nguni groups began to expand their power some time before 1600. Tshawe founded the Xhosa kingdom by defeating …