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PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… part of Coornhoop . Transcript of National Monuments Council plaque: Wrensch House The land on which this house …
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… Rhodesia, who, in 1937, transferred it to the City Council of Cape Town. It was declared a National Monument …
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… in the voters roll. They formed the Franchise Action Council in Cape Town and over 15,000 Coloured people marched …
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… visited the Rev. Chikane, former head of the South African Council of Churches who had survived an assassination attempt …
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… she started her political career by winning the Provincial Council seat of Walmer, Port Elizabeth, for the Progressive …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and the South African Council of Churches supported the ANC's proposals and …
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based …
EventStudents at Durban
… Students' Movement (AZASM) and the Student Representative Council (SRC), whose membership was mostly South African …
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… damaged building was declared a health hazard by the City Council. Cosatu and its affiliates were forced to vacate …
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… buildings. By Wednesday they shifted their rage towards council leaders and workers who had not responded to their …
EventWorld Population Day
… Population Day. This day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… but both attempts at suicide failed. He was tried by a council of war on 2 August 1894 and was found guilty on all …
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… for over three decades. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1863, and attended the South African federation …
EventPresident Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the Raadsaal on Pretoria’s Church Square
… significant buildings, such as the Ou Raadsaal (Council Chamber), which stands on the south western corner of …
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… horse-drawn trams were used. In 1879, the Cape Town City Council authorised a second tramways company, the 'City …
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… its report. The Commission recommended that a general council of journalists should be established by law to …
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… was put in his place by the Transitional Executive Council (TEC). A former Bophuthatswana policeman, Ontlametse …
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Programme Director, Esteemed Members of the Luthuli Museum Council, Comrades, ladies and gentlemen: First of all, I thank the Council of the Luthuli Museum…
The strangulation of activity
… Border Youth Organisation Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) African Social Education and Cultural … Student Congress (MSC) and the Western Cape…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… seat on Stellenbosch University's Students' Representative Council (SRC). Unfortunately he lost the election as he was …
PlaceGately House Museum, East London
… Immigrant who was one of the founders of the municipal council and voted Mayor of East London a number of times. The … Immigrant who was one of the founders…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… Labour party, contesting for the Coloured Representative Council. In addition, Issel was the founder of United …
PlaceQuanza Shipwreck, East London
… place for women and children. As a consequence, the Town Council decided to build a proper pool there. In fact, two … and children. The protests that ensued,…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… bring relief to the poor - people who stand to lose their council-owned homes if they cannot pay their rent, … with the ANC over its treatment of poor…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… leaflets over the next two days. The Passive Resistance Council of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) also pledged … day, JB Marks was speaking at the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… addressed a meeting of the Cato Manor Indian Ratepayers Council, and told the large turnout that blacks were 'being … on Indians not to serve on the Indian…
PlaceGreenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… buildings, including the old Burger Watch House and Council Chamber. By 1840 nearly all single-storey structures …
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… the African National Congress (ANC). Durban’s white city-council felt intimidated by this large community of …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… decided to establish the Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC), an action committee made up of two …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… of a democratically elected Student's Representative Council (SRC). Subsequently, he was deregistered from the …