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EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… to see that Holland "casts the beam out of its own eye." In a letter to Luns the committee wrote that South Africa … Luns what the Dutch would do if South…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to discuss the Rhodesian issue. Despite the … the only key to solving the growing…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation … of South Africa (CPSA). He was later…
EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… May. This day was the culmination of a UNESCO seminar held in Windhoek, Namibia from 29 April 1991 to the 3 May 1991. … many dangers and pressures faced by…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… one of the founder members of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was … He was appointed as the Secretary General…
EventBafana Bafana loses to England
… team, Bafana Bafana played England star-studded team in a friendly international match at Absa Stadium in Durban. The match was to mark South Africa's…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the … first five months of 1901 she visited…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Dennis Vincent Brutus was born on 8 November 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to … His parents moved back to South Africa and…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… Macmillan began his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence in 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice Michael Stahl Stegmann for her…
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… South Africa and our government, I am privileged to join in welcoming you all to South Africa and to this historic … globe. We have gathered as we have,…
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… leave to his final resting place from the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, where he lived for many decades, among the masses … the powers that be, by mobilising…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… Wendy Botha was born in East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the … the 1985 World Championship Tour as being ranked seventh in the world…
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… (NEC) meeting which took place from the 5 - 7th May 2000 in Johannesburg as follows; The ANC is confident that the route to follow in the Zimbabwean…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… it is noise about nothing. We have thousands of members in the ANC. When any of them offend we do something about it, … I think Chief Gatsha Buthelezi is…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Laid out on the Farm, Vergenoegd in 1854, it was proclaimed in 1855 and became a Municipality; the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in 1881. Said to…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which first opened its … Day ceremony is held each year. The…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… building, with its richly decorated gable, was completed in 1896 and is one of the last surviving structures of the … railway system. It was declared a…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… to the dependents of the Port Elizabeth Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd, 1920. 4. Wages Board as contemplated to be re-introduced in Parliament…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native … of treachery to the working class. It is…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… Ledwaba (16) was killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. In evidence furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the … serious…
Stay-away!
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the … The next year there was a stay-away…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape … of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request of the South…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… cricket career with the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in 1999. He had his Test debut in 2004 and his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2008. Amla is ranked…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… Did you blow up pylons and othe government property in Durban? Mtolo: Yes, I did. Yutar: Who ordered you to … Yutar: Did you believe everything that was…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was "satisfied" that I was engaged in…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August 1735. Jacobsz was a sailor from Rotterdam who … Dutch East India Company. He had been accused of…
Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… my sons and my daughters As I pace the floor of my bedroom in the Grand Hotel, Oslo, putting the final touches on my … the great Continent of Africa and when…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour … defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… delegates from 145 institutions. The conference was held in Pietermaritzburg. During the conference the following … on the eve of the proclamation of the…