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PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… in 1883 and used it as a Reformatory, for a while. In the 1960's it under went massive Restoration and was declared a …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… This township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of … Lansdowne, located south-east of Athlone…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… tenants’ evictions predominantly in the 1950's and early 1960's. As a result, the following relocation sites were … During the later phase of Farm removals,…
PlaceTogo
… within the French Union. Togo gained independence in 1960. The economy rests largely on agriculture, although the … 27 April 1960, Togo gains independence…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
On 5 January 1965, members of the African National Congress (ANC) Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrived at Robben Island. They…
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… time Nyerere was a Prime Minister after winning the August 1960 elections by 70 seats out of 71 in the Tanganyika …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… On 16 February 1960, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs J.M.A.H Luns was … Anon, (1960), 'Immigrants tell Dutch: Stop Irresponsible Talks about …
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… On 24 January 1960, Laurie Bloomfield, a photographer for the Daily News …
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… of sciences from the University of Paris in 1955. In 1960 he qualified for his doctorate in medicine at the same …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) president Clarence Makwetu announced the PAC's suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department …
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… by Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister on 3 February 1960 to the South African Parliament in Cape Town. In his …
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… in Fine Arts at the University of the Wiwatersrand in 1960. By 1964 she had her own solo show. Her distinguished …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… sentenced in the Queenstown Circuit Court on 11 February 1960. His name was kept a secret by Justice P. O’Hagan as he … The Star,(19, September 1960),’ …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Youth League in the 1950s. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went underground where he established a network …
Chapter X - Final word
… of the Freedom Charter and to live by it. That was before Sharpeville, before the grim 1960s, before the suppression by …
ArchiveFrom the margins to the mainstream: the anti-apartheid movement and the politics of agenda-setting in the United States
… United States policy relations with South Africa between 1960 and 1986. The research is based upon an analysis of an …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… country gained its independence from Britain in October 1960. The EEC came into being on 25 March, 1957, when West …
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960. And an Executive Council, made up entirely of …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether … Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta,…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on Apollo XI's …
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… Congress (ANC) from 1952 until his death in 1967. In 1960, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and he was the most … June 2012)| Nobel Peace Prize.org , ‘The…
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… headquarters after movement was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisation Act. During the raid …
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… investigated human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… Church in South Africa. Tutu was ordained as a deacon in 1960, and became a priest in 1961. He moved to London in …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… a committed opponent of apartheid and left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris in 1962 with his Viëtnamese wife …
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… (a farmers' magazine) as chief editor from1956 till 1960 and thereafter became chief leader for the Farmers …
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Town and graduated with an honours degree in English in 1960 and an honours degree in Mathematics the following year. …
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… Damaras also had skills in mining and metal work. In 1960, the South African government settled the Damara in …