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EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… Born in the Eastern Cape, Chief Daliwonga Kaiser Matanzima was … elected members and sixty-four ex-officio chiefs who in terms of the Bantu Authorities Act…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… should become a republic. The result showed that 52% were in favour of a republic. In accordance with his promise that the republic would remain … Verwoerd,…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… during an Inaugural Conference held on 4 and 5 March 1955 in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg. SACTU was the leading … reversals after the banning of political…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… any organized resistance against the laws of the Union. In addition, the Act stated that anyone accompanying a person … found guilty of offences committed…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… The 1926 Imperial Conference, held in London from 25 October, accepted the Balfour Declaration, … "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… and declared Unilateral Independence (UDI) from Britain in 1956. The United Nations (UN) considered this declaration … administration, and by 1979, talks on…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief … to the proposed ban on carrying traditional weapons in public. He said that Zulus…
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… of Ciskei foiled several coup attempts during his rule. In the early 1990's Colonel Onward Guzana, a former member of … weeks. Gqozo accused the African…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… of Pealton had already been incorporated into the Ciskei in 1981 and according to the Borders of Particular States Extension Amendment Act the government…
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… men, Schalk Burger and George Scheepers, were sentenced in Klerksdorp to be hanged to death for the rape of a Black woman, Ginny Gotsoine in February 1985…
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the … Sao Raphael, the Berrio, and a…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… a German bacteriologist, discovered a vaccine successful in the prevention of the animal disease, rinderpest. Robert … Kruger's Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek…
EventBritain imposes an embargo on Rhodesian trade
… a few words to you. Today, now that the final stalemate in negotiations has become evident, the end of the road has … at a solution which we could possibly…
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… other diseases., is hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research. The development was announced in Washington by the United States of America…
ArchiveThe African Peoples Democratic Union of Sout
… Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), held in Cape Town in April 1962. Items in the Address included the Ten Point Programme for the …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… our people. We want to acknowledge the role of the media in this regard, the media has shown interest on the issues contained in the discussion documents and…
The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016
… by some for distorting some of the history to put himself in better light. It was also inevitable that the whole … which led to the defeat of the white…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… of South Africa. There is no doubt that since we arrived in your country, your warm and kind welcome has made us feel we are at home here in Libya. Indeed,…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Walter Sisulu, Volume 20
… Max Elliot Sisulu, charged with 2 counts of sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the…
ArchiveThe politics of nonracialism: White opposition to apartheid, 1945-1960
… is concerned with the development of racial co-operation in the South African resistance movement in the years between 1945-1960. It focusses in particular…
ArchiveWe celebrate women's struggles: we celebr
… Yellow and blue poster. Title in red letters. Inscription on the walls of a cell in women's prison in South Vietnam: "The mountain is only so high...our …
PlaceTrevean House, 258 Wakesleigh Road, Bellair, Durban
… This imposing dwelling was designed and erected in 1882 by well-known architects Robert Sellers Upton and Philip Dudgeon. A billiard room was added in 1898…
ArchiveRepression of the United Democratic Front under state of attack
… government response to the United Democratic Front, both in words and in action, security forces maintain their presence in the townships, draconian laws…
ArchiveTerrorist car bombs : Public awareness chart 6
… placed. Block four shows vehicle search guide. Information in black letters, on precautionary measures, action in case of threat, action in case of car bomb…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
… Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi was born on 12 June 1955 in Evaton, the fifth son of a family of five boys, his politisation began at an early age he was living in…
PlaceCuthbert’s Building, Eloff Street, Johannesburg
… firm of WM Cuthbert & Co, shoe merchants, was established in 1882. Their Johannesburg building was designed by architects Stucke & Bannister and was…
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… Ephraim Matsilele “Jomo” Sono was born in Orlando East in Soweto. Sono was brought up by his grandparents after his … abandoned him. He was forced to work…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… as he issued warrants for a search of Mr Zuma's offices in a corruption case last year. It is alleged that Mr Zuma raped a family friend - a woman in her 30s…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the challenges we face. The manner…