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PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… developed into the largest kingdom in the sub-Continent before it was abandoned in the 14th Century. What survives … the subcontinent's largest realm,…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… the public protector's report prior to the Constitutional Court hearing were to ignore that report or attempt to … of these actions ... The president himself…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on three charges under the Official Secrets Act. 23 … evidence on the cement products industry…
EventHattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award
… 29 February 1940 Hattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award Hattie …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… out that he had been the orderly at the magistrate’s court where I used to appear. As a candidate attorney, I had … ran back to the cell, and cried and cried…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… P.O. Box 1940, … on this question and each year with greater intensity than before. During the last session of the Native Representative … married but owners…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… held in detention by the apartheid government. The Supreme Court declares the detention notices invalid, and the … held in custody, but will be formally…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… or Master, much of the state power was in the hands of court officials [xvii] . This meant that the Empire could … power in the Empire of Mali and that the…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… on the charges originally quashed by the Pretoria High Court. Makhosini Nkosi, NPA spokesperson, said that their … was based on the final ruling made by the…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… water.” [19] In 2008, the Gauteng branch of the LPM won a court case against the Johannesburg City Council forcing the … the Protea South shack settlement. …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… the right to freedom of movement the right to equality before the law When citizens in civil society find that their … law means. The judicial branch is made…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… that he mobilized killed his master and two other whites before fleeing into the surrounding mountains. A commando was … testimony of Christian slaves became…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… workers, and nearly all of them are punitive in character. Before Union each of the four provinces in South Africa … of individuals, powers which cannot be…
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… 1997. Pandor worked as a teacher in London and Botswana before joining the University of Cape Town as a senior … Africa's genocide case against Israel at…
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder … some closure was reached when Winnie Mandela accepted, before the Truth and…
PlaceNigeria
… coup plotters were later executed after secret trials before military tribunals. In December 1990 the first stage … Nigeria into chaos. Scores of people were…
EventKip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 mins 34.9 secs
… “Kip” Keino was born in Kipsano, Kenya on 17 January 1940. Keino began his international running career in 1962. …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… & Allied Trades Union (EATUSA) led by Brian Williams before it merged with the Electrical & Allied Workers Union …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Nguni groups began to expand their power some time before 1600. Tshawe founded the Xhosa kingdom by defeating …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
The Springbok Legion (SL) was a leading organisation formed in 1941 to fight for the rights of soldiers during World War II and in the post-war period. Over…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… manufacturing establishments rose by 141 percent between 1940 and 1946 to 9 999. The needs of the war (South Africa … rose by 9,8 percent compared to the 50…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,…
XI - The Verdict
… still fumbling for their notebooks when he rose and the court was adjourned. Mr. Marthinus Prins found: 'The cause or … of Biko's injuries were confirmed in…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… A.B Xuma,the 6th President General of the ANC(1940 - 49) 44th National Conference: Letter on "certain … you that when I took over leadership of the Congress…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… railway worker who was an Indian interpreter at the Law Court and whose son had no school he could attend after … 417 47 1.9 2.1 1938 450 34 1.9 1.5 1939 429…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… 6 - January 8 , Last conference of the Communist Party before its dissolution is held in Johannesburg. It attacks … Indian Congress (SAIC) are to place a…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… and national president of the Black Women's Federation before its banning, was served with successive banning orders … by Gandhi, with whose birthday it…
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
… lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the site of the old Opera House. The exterior …