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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 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…
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,…
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…
ArchiveANC National Conference: Building the ANC
… on Building Organisation for the ANC National Conference in July 1991 in Durban. Covers who builds the ANC, the state of the … volunteer organisers, problems…
ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… Oral interview, in Kimberley, South Africa, with Robert Sobukwe (1924 to … elected Founding President of the Pan Afticanist Congress in April 1959, jailed…
EventThe UN sets up Commission on Apartheid
… United Nations Commission on the Racial Situation in the Union of South Africa (UNCORS). Its mandate was to study the racial situation in South Africa…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, died in Stellenbosch at the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a ……
EventPolitical Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
… Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the banned … treason. This made…
EventThe Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened
… The Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik … house was formerly an outbuilding on the Roodebloem…
EventF.W. de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
… students and where De Klerk graduated with a law degree in 1958. They had two sons and one daughter. Their marriage ended in 1998 in a divorce, after which…
EventDr. J. S. Moroka dies
… of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong Boo Moroka in Thaba Nchu the then district of Bophuthatswana, now part of the Free State died in his village of Ratlou. He…
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter is born
… Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Colony. He fought in the Fourth and Fifth Frontier Wars…