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ArchiveDurban and Districts Council of Churches Cultural Festival 10 June 1990
… The topic for the Festival - Faith without works is quite death. The various speakers were encouraging the youth to …
EventThere is an assassination attempt on Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg
… Despite two bullets in his head, he miraculously escaped death. Verwoerd was murdered in 1966 by Dimitrio Tsafendas, a …
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
… Three years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… when he was murdered. The escalating violence after the death of Jack developed a suspicion of police involvement and …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… more important. They would also rub animal fat over their bodies to show their wealth. Khoisan languages, characterised …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… to oppose the SAIC elections. At the same time, similar bodies were formed in the Cape and by the NIC in Natal. The …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… into apartheid structures formed a number of civic bodies to oppose the measures. Many were mobilised against …
PlaceBlombos Cave and Private Nature Reserve, Stillbaai - Cape Town
Blombos Cave is a World-famous Archaeological Site, overlooking the sea and located in a private nature Reserve which is NOT open to the public!"Archaeologists…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… Mthethwa foresaw the probability of his act causing death, and nevertheless persisted. During the court case, … the act of Mthethwa kicking and stomping…
EventJoseph Lekganyane of the ZCC (Dove) dies
… areas, died in Warmberg, Pietersburg district. Upon the death of Engenas, the founder of the ZCC, the struggle …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium denies accusations of brutality in the Congo Free State
… exploiting his slaves. Leopold II was responsible for the death of possible millions of Africans. …
EventJoachim Ammena van Plettenberg is born in the Netherlands
… at the Cape. He became governor of the Cape after the death of Governor Ryk Tulbagh in 1771. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… while Tromp van Madagascar, the leader, is sentenced to death by impalement. Van Madagascar commits suicide in goal. … by crew and passengers of a passing…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… to ‘train and fit’ Africans for their role in the newly (1948) evolving apartheid society. Education was viewed as a … of black South Africans. Long before…
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… they are now third and fourth generation owners. In 1948 the landowners formally formed, what now is: 'the Sabi …
The start of mass campaigns
… Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1948, the same year that I joined the ANC and the trade union …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in the manufacturing industries during the period 1925-1948. Total number of wage earners (according to race) employed in the manufacturing industries, 1925…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… Africans were later arrested and twenty-two sentenced to death for the murders. …
EventSipho Mutsi dies in police custody
… Louis le Grange, ordered an urgent probe into Mutsi's death. …
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… making contact with the leadership of organisations and bodies, among them the African National Congress, … won the 1958 election with an increased majority…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… car failed to stop at a police roadblock. de la Rey’s death heightened emotions around the SWA campaign, especially … on 16 December, and was court…
EventProminent leaders are arrested in Uganda
… and arms smuggling. Although the official cause of death was given as a car crash, it was revealed that they …
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… at the South African College of Music in Cape Town. On her death in 1955 she left her collection of music to the Black …
EventFlash floods kill at least 73 people in the Marrakesh region of Morocco
… cutting out roads linking Marrakesh and other areas. The death toll was reported by the country’s Interior Ministry to …
ArchiveMy Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… '[Neither] Jail nor death must hold fear for our leaders. They must feel always …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… was never able to return to school.’ The BCM, school-based bodies and the formation of SASM The BCM began when Steve … police. Widespread revolts took place…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… unions, student organizations, churches, sports and other bodies to unite and collectively oppose the state’s … , to use the campus for a ceremony to…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. After his death from cancer in 1975 the authorities refused to release … influenced by Donald Wood s' book…
Banned, but never silenced by Glyn Williams (Editor - The Daily Dispatch), 6 September 2012, Eastern Cape, South Africa
… with Steve Biko was still developing. The day that Biko’s death in detention was announced on September 13 1977, was a … space, but with big headline…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… at a screening of the film on the 20th anniversary of her death, 2012, at the University of London School of Advanced … the ANC from African nationalism…