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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 …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… shack lords. The Group Areas Act In 1952, the Durban City Council acquired land from Indian landowners to erect an … some reconstructed their homes. Bourquin…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's …
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… amount of outhouses for their tenants. “The Grahamstown Council seriously considered ways and means to improve the … state of the city in 1867. In times of…
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…
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 …
EventUnited Nations Charter is adopted
… ratified by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely the Republic of China, France, USSR, United …
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… was a member of the triumvirate, known as the President's Council, which shared the chairpersonship of the organization …
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). This was intended to allow Cosatu to …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… state radio announced that Wanke would lead the National Council for Reconciliation for nine months. …
EventBotha found Guilty
… during the apartheid era, as he chaired the State Security Council from 1978 to 1989. Botha had already been named in … p. 42427.|SAPA, TRC PROBES ACTIVITIES…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… for the role he played in the bombing of the South African Council of Churches headquarters, Khotso House; the bombing …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… The building was the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of other …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… the headquarters of the anti-apartheid South African Council of Churches. He was later convicted for defying TRC …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), former State President F W de Klerk issued a …
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…