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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…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… A change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest gold … mines of all history, ancient and modern…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… Walter Sisulu joined the ANC in 1940. He was elected to the executive committee of the ANC …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… was intended to transport aircraft around the country. In 1940, on flight to Oxford for the ATA, Johnson was caught in …
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… was Settled by the Maphumulo and Mangangeni Ethnic Groups, before the Colonization by White people. The Mangengeni … Residents of St. Wendolins Ridge,…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… first President of the newly-established Constitutional Court, and following the death of Ismail Mahomed in 2001, … only true in his founding leadership of…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… not seem to have edited them or properly arranged them before his death two years later. In order to complete the … later he became more established. But in…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… appointment of the presiding judges of the Constitutional Court and the judiciary, which involves the three branches of … to all who live in it, united in…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… in 1966, hardly a month after the verdict of the World Court, which South Africa won on a technical point. In 1971, a reconstituted World Court reversed its…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… to return to schools in the township areas. Shortly before the conference, the People’s Educational Committee … was to rob the clinic. 1991 24 September, a…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… formed South African Defence Force , established in 1912. Before the invasion could take place Botha needed the support … blow. He eventually surrendered on…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… to answer questions. Legislation regarding Indians ↵ Before the turn of the century legislation had been passed … by Mr. Justice F. Williamson in the…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… passed compelling Free Indians forced to carry passes or court arrest. The South African Republic rejects a British … to buy land and obtain trading licences…
PlacePageview
… eviction orders were finally dropped in 1989, the year before Nelson Mandela was released. It took an intervention … by then-president FW de Klerk, who…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… or variation desired might be given by either side, but before the expiration of the first six months. 35 The … per week. 41 The factory owners threatened…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… a cumbersome way that I had to read it a couple of times before I understood it myself. It was also published very … in the government Gazette so that it…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… (ANC From Swaziland; tried and convicted in South Africa court under ISA 1987 May Nyanda, Sheila (ANC) From Mbabane; …
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… will have to answer to God'." Speaking outside the High Court in Johannesburg during the first sitting of the inquiry … death took place between April and…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… she should be dismissed immediately. She was charged before the union committee with a breach of discipline. Asked … defamatory. I thereupon made an…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… racial discrimination and to appeal for equal treatment before the law. The founding president was John L. Dube , a … Congress, was appointed treasurer…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… racial discrimination and to appeal for equal treatment before the law. The founding president was John L. Dube , a … Congress, was appointed treasurer…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… Goldblatt's photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of … He took serendipitous photographs as…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… for ships from Europe to travel to the East with ease. Before the canal was opened European ships had to travel … possible due to the development of trade…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
… Magoo’s bar operation. The 1987 Krugersdorp magistrates’ court operation. The 1987 attack at the Wits Command. The … used in the interviews are referred to…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… of Louis XII. [2] Louis XIV established his royal court and government at the palace in 1682. [3] Power was … click here . The Period of Reform (1781-1789)…
PlacePlumstead
Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The Cape Town-Wynberg…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
The African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube was its first president, and the well known writer and poet, Sol Plaatje, was…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… from Vorster! That was when he was minister of justice, before he became prime minister. Those banning orders were a … remember which place it was that time,…