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EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… police appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to apply for the amnesty for their …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… difficult task as chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the 1990s. …
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… policeman appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Amnesty committee applying amnesty for their …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… Council, who had appointed the National Symbols Commission, and the public did not find any that were …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… (MP)and his wife Gaye. During the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearing, Walus said: "I did not want to …
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… Britain and elsewhere about the poverty levels of African wages and the role of foreign capital investment in South … reports in the British press also…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… hawkers. The average Indian worker receives wretchedly low wages, amounting to about £ 1. 10. 0. per week. Rural workers … mines, the farms and the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… a suitable name for the merged body, and a constitutional commission was elected, consisting of Hofmeyr, DF du Toit and … van Heerden and TP Theron. After…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… and growing out of the work and experience of the South Commission, the Centre plays a role whose value for the … of NAM. He has made an immense contribution…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… 7 December, Justice H. Snyman appointed to head the Commission of Inquiry into the 1962 Paarl Revolt begins … with political leaders about the Truth and…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… be governed was endorsed by the Natal Redistribution Commission in 1903. This commission held the view that “not … by apitalists and government, in which the…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… attracted by the episode led to the appointment of a commission of enquiry to investigate the causes of the dash. In its report, published in October 1937,…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… testify before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Human Rights Violations in 1996. Sam Nzima … Sitole, the sister of Hector Pieterson,…
Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, “The Rôle of the Non-European Teacher in the Liberatory Movement”, Discussion, 1, 5, June 1952
… Africa the appointment and recent report of the Eiselen Commission in African Education, the new move to harness … the militancy of the teacher-organisations…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… took place despite the instruction of the Public Service Commission in 1971 that there should be no discrimination …
EventAdvocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated
… report was corroborated by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, which dismissed claims, made by …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), General Johan van der Merwe former South …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… be remembered by defying the Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena in 1998. The TRC was set up in 1996 to …
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… of the meeting were not made public. Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairman Judge Johann Kriegler, when asked …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… supporters sought amnesty at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the storming of the World Trade Centre …
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… He had also served as the head of the National Planning Commission. On the 22nd May 2019 he was elected to his first …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… January – A government bill proposes an anti-corruption commission. John Githongo, a critic of Moi, is appointed … Many political leaders are reluctant to…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… protest against the setting up of the Indian Penetration Commission, (Broome Commission), which was to inquire into the alleged … After a number of speakers…
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… or whether it was thrown by the security forces. The Commission was unable to determine this matter conclusively. 375 The Commission had difficulty in…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… seller’ model is no longer workable. 1995 1 March, The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights is constituted. Its … of 63 455 restitution claims have been…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Lebombo Mountains. 1874 November, a government-appointed commission presents its report on possible railway … The surveyors’ recommendations are investigated…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… He was appointed in 1847 as a mediator on the Natal Land Commission, set up to establish native reserves in the …
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… Court. Towards the end of apartheid, Goldstone headed a commission to investigate political violence and intimidation …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… of Cape Town, and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The award …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Six" were granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) but were never compensated for their ordeal …