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EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
On 12 February 1982 journalist Thami Mazwai was jailed for two years after refusing to present facts against a former fellow student-leader charged under the…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… to promote him to the finance minister's post in 2015 15 March 2016 ANC MP Vytjie Mentor reveals that the Guptas … was in another room of the house when the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… the new Agent of the Government of India to South Africa. 15 February, The All African Convention (AAC) passes a … in Bloemfontein. Albert Luthuli does not…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Xuma and Dadoo address the gathered assembly. Thereafter, 15 000 people march through the centre of Johannesburg. As a … terminate its trade agreement with…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Tana Baru. The cemetery was officially closed on January 15, 1886 by Government decree: Section 63 to 65 of the Public … Ganief [I-Ian3f] [1939-1954], Imam…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… On 15 November 1988, 21 year-old Barend Strydom went on a … 2016. Smith, Janet. “What Became of the White Wolf?”, IOL, 15 November 2008, …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… leaders and the heads of the armed forces in Lesotho. On 15 January forces led by Maj-Gen Metsing Lekhanya who had …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Circle: Face-to-Face with the Special Branch - Chapter 15 The Final Prize: On Trial - Chapter 16 The Final Prize: …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… Constabulary, and following the armed uprising of 1914-15, its leader, General CR de Wet, as well as many of his …
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories.[i] She was also described as a passionate and…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
Early History Few Southern African indigenous groups have so captured the interest of the world as have the South amaNdebele of the central highveld, an area…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Nation-wide general strike. It is reported that only 10-15 % of the labour force joins the strike. In Johannesburg, … Six declared a 'White' area, under the…
PlaceBotswana
… Today 85% per cent is owned by Anglo American and 15 per cent by the Government of the Republic of Botswana … influenced by political developments there. In…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… demonstration which took place on 16 June. On that day 15 000 children converged on Orlando West Junior Secondary … 12-year old Hector Pieterson and Hastings…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… law. 1949 Walter Sisulu is elected ANC Secretary General. 1950 At birth South Africans are classified and registered in … arrest, and prohibition on…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… commemorate the National Day of Protest held on 26th June, 1950, the day on which on the call of the President-General … conditions, the one-day protests on…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… building and a barracks for the troops were constructed. 15 Houses were also built for the officers just north of the … 160 yards long. Passing down an…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… building and a barracks for the troops were constructed. 15 Houses were also built for the officers just North of the … 160 yards long. Passing down an…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… is a Suburb of Soweto . It was founded in the early 1950's during the Apartheid era to accommodate Black … Africa, is a Suburb of Soweto. It was founded in…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… Interview, 0:55-1:02. ↵ [ix] Klug 2016, Phone Interview, 2:15-2:45. ↵ [x] An Interview with Professor Heinz Klug, N.d.; …
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… the banning of the South African Communist Party(SACP) in 1950, the Sharpeville massacre in 1961 and the subsequent …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
‘Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.' So runs the song composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… the tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience. 1950 The Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act, …
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… violence and resistance in South Africa in this era. On 15 August 1989 Frederik Willem de Klerk was sworn in by the …
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… violence and resistance in South Africa in this era. On 15 August 1989 Frederik Willem de Klerk was sworn in by the …
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… a factional dispute between Basotho and Zulu (Bantu World, 15.5.1937:18). This last detail hints at the real source of … of illicit beer in a four-hour raid …
PlaceEmpangeni
… plantations and hot, sticky, languid days. It is only 15 km away are the townships of: Esikhawini, Vulindlela, … plantations and hot, sticky, languid days…