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EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… Legislative Assembly, opposing the Bill and asking for a Commission of Enquiry. Few days later, Gandhi led a …
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Vlok made a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and received amnesty. He was recently in the …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) granted them amnesty. The record of the …
EventKhotso House is bombed
… Eugene de Kock. During the 1996 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, police chief Johan Van der Merwe …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
EventEschel Rhoodie's assets frozen
… the country, following the Information Scandal and Erasmus Commission's Report of 1978. …
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,…
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…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) joined the organisation and became one of its leading …
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… left somewhat ambiguous. On the one hand, passes and low wages were singled out as the chief grievances of Africans. …
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… cooking and cleaning with constant supervision, earning no wages, and regular contact with guards. Perhaps a woman’s …
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…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…