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EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… The Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more fertile land … law created reserves…
WhatsYourHeritage
… This event is an initiative of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Solution Space and the Bertha Centre for Social …
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for … culture’ in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… in South Africa. It shares the day with the anniversary of the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred in 1960. This gross violation of human life…
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, president of ZANU since 1977, became the prime minister. Joshua Nkomo … in the new 100-seat parliament…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen of the more than seventy-five…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… outside parliament while leading a protest march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. … and…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the … as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial … African Aerial Transports Ltd company, under the…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born…
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a speech to the joint sitting of…
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial … elections. The elections…
EventEgyptian author, and trade unionist, Gamal al-Banna is born
… Though he was the younger brother of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal al-Banna was a liberal scholar and a critic of the Muslim…
Clarion Call
… Clarion Call was published as the official journal of the KwaZulu Government, as a record of their activities, and as a mouthpiece of the Inkatha Institute…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… concerned with Alexandra, since that was the home location of Ditshwantsho, it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in the general…
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of politics including the elements of…
EventSamuel Marks (77) dies in Johannesburg
… Sammy Marks was a diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and Senator in the Parliament of the Union of South…
Letter from Jack Simons to Oliver Tambo
… Letter from Jack Simons of the Constitutional Committee and Zola Skweyiya of the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs to Oliver Tambo regarding …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights…
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was … to be discovered, not in quartz at all, but in the band of conglomerate…
Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans by Rebecca Morelle (Science Correspondent, BBC News), 20 May 2015
… anvils Image source They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 million years ago. … previously," said Dr Nick Taylor, from…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … radio. You have watched your TV sets. Just read…
ArchiveNUSAS 1982 Resumé
… Illustrated resumé of the activities of the National Union of South African Students during 1982. The theme for 1982, …
PlaceVictorian terrace House complex, Grove Road and Albert Road, Mowbray
… These 9 dwellings form part of a unique Street Block that dates from the 1880s, and consisted of two terraced rows, of identical late-Victorian Double-storey…
PlaceBlue Lodge Hotel, 206-208 Long Street, Cape Town
… This impressive building was erected at the turn of the 19th century and forms an important part of the architectural character of Long Street, one of the…
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
… had that I so admired. Robert saw beyond the surface of things and valued what society discarded. In 1970, at the age of 22, Robert started researching the…