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EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… ashore on 7 April, barely one day after dropping anchor in Table Bay, to select the best site. 100 men were occupied … rampart, Reijger, was completed and…
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… which centred on the brutal killing of Stompie Seipei in 1988. The TRC heard from a series of witnesses who … four youths and dismissed the claim that she…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force … and 19 other former senior military officers were charged in the…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… Published and launched in January 2009 in partnership with Vivalia Press. Editors : Cornelius … readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in…
’Asinamali’
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1957 a message came through from SACTU that we must … to write something about this pound a day…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
… Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from … nearby Mine. This range of Hills…
ArchiveThe failure of the Coloured Persons Represen
… Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of … latter's gradual adaptation and development, culminating in the inauguration…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 5: Education beyond apartheid
… Education Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining the education system in South Africa under apartheid rule. Content…
Speak - the voice of the community
… newspaper reported on the communities' sustained efforts in creating residents' associations, including women's … action against the Government elections…
PlaceMartello Tower, Simonstown
… The circular tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence … that this is the oldest British structure of its kind in the…
EventA Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed
… Passive Resistance Council was formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1 500 people. Among the first … of the Resisters to join the passive…
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… Cup international men's team golf championship starting in Athens on 8 November. The action by the Greek Foreign … Apartheid to condemn all practices of…
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… Congress (ANC) member Rocky Malebane-Metsing, was banned in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced … aborted coup attempt by the PPP…
EventMerenstejin Sinks
… as it is now spelled) a Dutch merchant ship that was built in Amsterdam, Holland in 1693 with a passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off … their lives. The…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam … Kolo Zulu and was a member of the…
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… Commons that every effort was made to improve conditions in concentration camps in South Africa. The camps were set up during one of the toughest and…
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… The 33rd lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture series delivered by Alan Paton in Johannesburg on 23rd May 1985, in which he believes…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… Unbanning the ANC, is an admission that your banning in March 1960 was wrong. It was a mistake. Your embrace of a … democracy goes further and says that we…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 9th National Conference of the Non-European Movement in Pietermaritzburg, on the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This … discussed with focus on the…
Liberation
… Liberation was founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and non-establishment Whites in South Africa. It was…
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to participate in any way in the activities of the union…
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation Ltd (ARDC), was born…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an emergency session in Durban and decided on a hartal on 13 June, which was … to read E.S…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… the funeral. He was the husband of Victoria Mxenge who, in December 1985, while preparing to defend the United Democratic Front and the Natal Indian Congress…
EventFinal Commission report on University Christian Movement
… was that the UCM, as a multi-racial body, had engaged in dangerous activities aimed at propagating violent … South African Students Organisation (SASO),…
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for 2 April in KwaZulu-Natal. The local ANC executive organiser convinced the ANC national executive that in view…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was appointed as new chief-of-staff of MK to … Africa during the 1980s, a period during…
EventTshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
… Tshwane Metro's 5th anniversary celebrations. Held in Church Square in Pretoria's city centre, the celebrations began with … Afro music groups and performers…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… admitted for medical observation. He was the first MEC in the country to pass away in office. A committee was set up by the ANC and his family … to make…