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Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… chaos and apparently looming revolution of the 1980s. Long before the political world understood it, she followed … embodied her allegiance in other ways:…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… that he used to go often to Amina Pahad for lunch, even before she left for Durban to join the Indian passive … walls. Families were allowed to bring food to…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… many of them calling for her resignation. She was taken to court by some opposition parties such as the United … ahead of the 2014 elections. On 18 June 2014…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… Stoffel Buys, would proffer his opinion to Rapport before his investigation was even complete. “Ahmed Timol was … Africa left it, until 1996, when Timol’s…
Chapter III - The world outside
… by the minister at the beginning of 1965, but not before it had cost the lives of three men. Official reports … days of detention, Babla, so often bubbling…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 9,879 27,352 1940 .. 114,272 161,765 … shows the absurdity of South African labour legislation: Before the…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… preserved Cape gateways, and following its restoration in 1940, it was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
Community histories of Rustenburg
… Rustenburg. The Hervormde Church took the United Church to court regarding church property in 1894. In 1895 the court’s decision was in favour of the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… the Transvaal. Many other Passive Resisters continue to court arrest 1911 March 15, Natal, Transvaal and Cape Indians … months. The family returns to South…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court, comprising of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan … time proceedings would be captured on…
EventPius Langa is born
… Pius Nkonzo Langa, deputy president of the Constitutional Court and Chancellor of the University of Natal (now KwaZulu … 1994, Langa was appointed as Judge…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… Science, English and Agriculture. He moved to Brakpan in 1940 where he got a teaching post at Berlin School and joined … Salary Campaign, of which he was the…
EventPres Mandela’s testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into … to answer certain questions,…
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… National Congress (ANC) when he was in South Africa inthe 1940's, came to the attention of colonial authorities as one …
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… The Nigerian Islamic Appeals Court freed Amina Lawal, a young woman sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of…
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of … year old woman had been convicted of adultery by a village…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… to make healthcare accessible to all, it will be some time before remote areas in provinces like KwaZulu Natal are … Health Ministry's change in attitude,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… as a medical doctor at the Royal College in Edinburgh. Before Dadoo leaves for South Africa, he visits Krishna … He spends a month in Johannesburg and then…
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 SAIC in Court The refusal of the President and the Joint Honorary … to discuss certain and to vote, was raised in…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… and the other on Page View, a predominately Indian area before their forced removal. In late 1981 Weinberg was …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… Party legislators had made it abundantly clear years before Bantu Education was enacted that they did not approve … was as important as the cost of African…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… non-stop for about four days. He was then hospitalised before being sent to prison to await trial. During his … attended the inspection. The inquest…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… judicial system including a powerful Constitutional Court. An entire chapter is devoted to the establishment of … parties that were at war with each other…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… recommendations to the South African Police (SAP) and court personnel around responding more effectively to women … project was also established at Cape Town…
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… Benito Mussolini's troops in the East African Campaign of 1940-1941. From 1941, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… become a member of the Cape Town City Council (from 1905-1940). His death raised concern within the Black, Coloured …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
The June 1913 anti-pass campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 women marched to the…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… considerable reluctance that I applied for leave to appear before this Committee, recognising, as I did, the supreme … to abandon. Today some thirty persons…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… and earned her LLB degree from UCT in 1962 – the year before her death. This made her the first coloured woman to … rights activist. In 2000, she headed a…
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… was sentenced to six months in the Johannesburg Regional Court for conspiring with Pamela Beira , a 19 year-old White … of a close relationship. Pamela Beira…