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EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… in the boycott. The following day police report that 15 Black protesters and one policeman were killed in the …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… of the apartheid government‘s death squads. In 1996, 15 years later the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… and Parliament, which had gone into recess on September 15, to reconvene as soon as possible. Speaker of Parliament, …
EventBritain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty
… Cetshwayo was exiled and despatched to Cape Town on 15 September 1879. The Zulu nation did not accept the …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… second shot at his head." Hani was killed in front of his 15-year-old daughter Nomakhwezi. The death of the leader of …
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). On 15 June 1999 Shilowa was appointed premier of Gauteng. He …
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
… went on strike and other strikes followed between the 15 and 24 January. British-controlled Frame group with …
PlacePhansi Museum
The Museum houses some of the finest examples of African artefacts, such as: beadwork, headrests, milk pails, snuff containers, tobacco pipes, telephone wire…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… and Plans of Mass Action Codesa Committee Meeting – 15 June 1992 Mass action and Boipatong Massacre on 17 June … activity continued up until the plenary of…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… is the leading cause of death worldwide among those 15-59. The Global Fund is established to boost the response … of opportunistic infections and anti…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… the conference Leballo claimed that he would command 15 000 men trained in Lesotho to invade South Africa. His … Mahlangu are tried in a Tanzanian court and…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree which she obtained from the …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was known as the first collecting institution that …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act, and re-launched …
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… The Farm Dwarsvlei is situated 15 kilometres North of Krugersdorp, on the road to Hekpoort, … similar to the Battle of Colenso, seven Months earlier, 15…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… sent you money. Previously I sent a £40 draft, from which £15 was for Aunt Rasool's Ahmed, and the balance was for … But, bhai [brother], you must not worry…
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on Sunday 14 July 2013. The Programme will include a…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
You have been invited to the first Open Textbook Summit: physics & astronomy Textbooks prices have skyrocketed globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 14 "We are witnesses"(24): for Denis Goldberg Chapter 15 Denis Goldberg - a Face of Africa Chapter 16 More than a …
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
Longtime museum with diverse exhibits including: Paleontology; Ethnography & Zoology collections. The McGregor Museum was originally located in Chapel Street,…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… 1600s. The number of coins found in the 1970s was around 15,000 and is believed to be nowhere near all of the treasure …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… warfare. Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, 15 August, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers, ending …
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… exactly two years later, 6 PAC members were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Tanzanian High Court for …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… 150 000 litres of potable water to Beaufort West on 15 December 2010. … Transport Water to Beaufort West' ,From: Cape Gate Way , 15 December 2010, [online]…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the…