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Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… groups and from all parts of the country converging on Pretoria, the citadel of racist tyranny in South Africa. More … mighty demonstration was, even in the…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
… Internationally we must, above all, work to compel Pretoria's partners to abandon the path of collaboration with … Africa, we salute you convinced that we…
EventHip Hop Pantsula, the South African rapper is born
… raised in Mmabatho, and attended Saint Alban’s College in Pretoria.[2] He is a South African Motswako hip hop …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… S.B. (eds) (1993). South Africa in the 20th Century, Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic, pp. 414 & 485. Potgieter, D.J. …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Elizabeth, Biko was badly beaten then driven 700 miles to Pretoria, where he was thrown into a cell. On 12 September …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… the Allies. On 23 November 1939 Malan and Hertzog met in Pretoria in an attempt to reach an agreement for … S.B. (eds) (1993). South Africa in the 20th…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… ties with the apartheid regime. On 30 January 1985, the Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the SAMDC to hold an inquiry …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… temple in Bronkhorstspruit, about 30 kilometers east of Pretoria, injuring two security guards. According to national …
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… and entered the Transvaal Republic. By the end of June Pretoria had been captured and the Commandos were all but …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Lionel 'Rusty' Bernstein planted successful explosions in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Looksmart Ngudle, who died in …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… from the Swamp stated that in September “Europeans from Pretoria” had come to the Farm and ordered residents to move, …
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… in the Country. The Museum is situated in the Centre of Pretoria (Tshwane) and was founded as the Staatsmuseum of …
PlaceBorakalalo National Park, North of Brits
… of the most accessible reserves to the Johannesburg and Pretoria areas which makes for an excellent and unusual day …
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… since that impressive gathering in Johannesburg after the Pretoria protest, but much had happened since then to prevent … that delegation of seventy women…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… a meeting held in Lady Selborne, a non-white township in Pretoria. ANC and SAIC leaders are arrested and charged for … Congress (SANNC) from 1917 to 1924,…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… near Springs on the East Rand. Later in the same month, a Pretoria court sentenced nine men to terms in prison after … spread to schools and colleges…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… Indians to register. 2000 Indians meet outside a mosque in Pretoria. At midnight, they would all be liable for arrest. … do not despair. January 30, Mohandas…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… women activists staged a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in October 1963. Zainab Asvat , who had been so … of the march. Most of the women were from…
ArticleNdebele
… Zulu nation) and to settle in the hills of Gauteng near Pretoria. After Chief Musi’s death, his eldest son, Manala … so many inhabitants worked in the…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… assumed power in 1948. Black townships particularly on the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal (PWV) area, (present day Gauteng) … was done in solidarity with the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… purchase of a R5.2-million home in the upmarket Pretoria suburb of Waterkloof. 26 March The Chief Executive … orchestrated this revolt against the ANC. 9…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the Pretoria regime continues to imprison, restrict and detain … to imprison and restrict these people but…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the Pretoria regime continues to imprison, restrict and detain … to imprison and restrict these people but…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… and notes in the National Archives of South Africa in Pretoria where it was stored in a closed collection. This is …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… 'Rusty' Bernstein also successfully planted explosions in Pretoria and Johannesburg. Between December 1961 and June …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… of oppressed women from all parts of South Africa march on Pretoria's Union Buildings to protest against the imposition …
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… Durban is now taking 20 dozen as is also Oudtshoorn. Pretoria is taking 12 dozen. Our free numbers sent to Native … in large centres like Johannesburg,…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… Black freehold of Eersterust, about 16 kilometres east of Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the fourth of six … along the bumpy township road from…
PlaceOttosdal and Letsopa
… its owner, GP Otto. The main routes to and from Gauteng ( Pretoria , Johannesburg , Vereeniging ), the Economic Centre … its owner, GP Otto. The main routes…
PlaceNazareth House, Durban
… and outreach centres in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Warrenton and Harare. …