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EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… because of blood ties. Laas was succeeded in December 1940 by Dr J.F.J. (Hans) van Rensburg. Besides the OB and …
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… League of Youth, of which she remained a member until 1940, when she left to join the Communist Party of South …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… Desert Raiders: Axis and Allied Special Forces 1940-43 [online] Available at http://books.google.co.nz …
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… got embroiled in a bitter verbal exchange. Two weeks before the crash, the South African government accused Machel … Machel was preparing to leave for Zambia…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… and walked on the pavement. They were arrested. During the court hearing, they stated the plight of black people, … of the Federation as well as of the Women…
ArticleWorld War I
… of electricity rendered war firepower far more deadly than before, resulting in casualties on a scale never experienced before. The First World War also saw…
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… education in order to join MK, thereby putting ‘the nation before himself’. [xxxii] This sacrifice was extreme for a man …
VI - The Inquest
… until 14 November. At the end of October, two weeks before it was due to start, announcements were made by both … in which almost all the witnesses and most…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice Michael Stahl Stegmann for her … to a fine and a two-year suspended sentence…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… a strong working-class organisation and that is why in the 1940's you found like Tin Workers' Union, Fire Workers' … Congress then, the rightwingers. So…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… gaps in our knowledge of his life, especially the years before he moved to Johannesburg and entered politics. Another … llanga lase Natal, 19 July 1947.tion…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… era, little attention was paid to what transpired once the court cases concluded and the sentences were determined. In … unless first it was made public as…
PlaceJagersfontein
… Mine closed in the early 1930's and reopened in the late 1940's. Thereafter it remained in service until 1973, when …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… the inner circle encompasses cattle byres and the men’s court, while the female residential zone of beehive houses …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… 1987 CAYCO applied for and was granted an urgent Supreme Court interdict after submitting affidavits alleging torture, …
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
… burnt alive in a bush in Honeydew. An expert testified in court that the deceased had high levels of carbon monoxide in … of kidnapping, robbery and murder…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… horses and copper. Islam had been introduced to the royal court of Songhai in 1019, but most people remained faithful … in return for internal and external…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… code to ensure that his power could not be challenged in court. He also launched a series of land and tax reforms. … to date. In 1420, the Forbidden City…
EventThe "Battle of Andringa": violently separating Stellenbosch
… Slag van Andringastraat: Studente-onluste op Stellenbosch, 1940. Historia. 50(2): p. 179.↵ [ii]Grundlingh, A. The Battle … Slag van Andringastraat: Studente…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… brushwork and only did his first oil painting in 1940. In 1952 he stopped producing sculptures and …
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… as a boy in the company of Sol Plaatje, but it was only in 1940 that he became a member of the organisation. In 1943 he …
PlaceUmlazi
History of Umlazi The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ) and…
ArticleTswana
… in anti-Mangope demonstrations. Mangope was ousted just before the April 1994 elections, and the homeland was …
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering Nokuphila Kumalo, a young sex worker, aged … act causing death, and…
PlaceLady Grey, Eastern Cape
… Before 1856, Farmers in this Area attended the Church in … first teacher was Mr. Reeder's. The first old Magistrates Court was also a Post Office with the…
EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… Coloured People also challenged the Bill in the Supreme Court until it was declared invalid by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… The Constitutional Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President … overrule electoral boundaries drawn by its officials. The court ruled that…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… protesters, including Mkhize, left Durban by bus the day before the demonstration. [14] Upon reaching Pretoria, they … prison. [28] She appeared in the…