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EventLanga, Nyanga and Gugulethu students march through the Cape Town CBD
… About 2 000 students from Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu marched …
EventBotha announces third naval base
… South African Naval Base to be located at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres north of Cape Town. In 1958 Botha became … ‘Biography of P.W. Botha, Apartheid…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… struggle to release for public consumption little of value about their actual intentions and plans. What they do release … the mask of rhetoric and…
PlaceBenin
… the country. Benin, a country with a population today of about 8.5 million, has more than 40 ethnic groups. The three … who inhabit west-central Benin and…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… need weapons and explosives and therefore I would set about making them and training others how to do so. The … throughout the 30 year after our arrest and…
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… them to take aboard with them. We would otherwise not know about the interests of everyday people, as they were not …
EventNo time to wash at The VOC Slave Lodge
… to the Governor, wrote a letter to Cape of Good Hope, about the conditions of enslaved people at the VOC Company …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 2 September 1982, Volume 3
… F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management …
EventNelson Mandela’s son, Thembekile is killed in a car accident
… to attend Thembi’s funeral or to have access to details about the fatal crash. Thembi died when three cars collided …
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… of the African National Congress Youth League. His ideas about Africanism formed the basis of the political philosophy …
EventBotha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet
… Click Here to read an article from a US government website about these limited reforms …
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… African educational and political systems. Students from about 60 Coloured high schools, teacher training facilities …
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… Klerk and Nelson Mandela held emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto. Fighting in Soweto …
EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… of police action in rural areas. The report was based on about 50 statements to lawyers by victims of police action in …
EventOver a thousand people are detained under state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre
… On 22 April 1960, about 1,575 people were detained under South Africa's state …
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
… occupation, San hunter-gatherers lived in this Area from about 10,000 years ago until they were displaced by Khoikhoi herders from the interior about 400…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… on the Bluff. Being skilled ship’s carpenters, they set about building a decked boat from the remains of the wreck, … Francis Farewell arrived aboard the…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… of workers with an evocative description of culture being “about making images of ourselves that tell us more about our lives”. (Film footage vid 1) Before…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… my eyes politically because before that nobody talked about politics so when I joined Inkatha my eyes were … in Inkatha because it is the movement that…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 11 May 1983, Volume 66
… F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 10 May 1983, Volume 64 and Volume 65
… F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 9 May 1983
… F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 28 March 1983, Volume 59
… F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the activities of the SACC, including its management …
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… not a part of his kingdom. He was also passionate about modernising Ethiopia and introduced several western …
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… the 20th century. A film and a documentary have been made about the fight. Foreman and Ali spent a few months in Zaire …
EventMethane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers
… underground. The mine captain scratched out his report about underground methane to give the mine a good safety …
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… to permanent urban status. The ruling was likely to affect about 150, 000 Black contract workers in urban areas, who …
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… South Africa and abroad, where it became the most talked about South African event internationally since the Durban …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… The mass action commenced on 3 rd to 5 th August with about 4 million workers staying away from work. …
EventUNHRC service is enlisted in repatriation process
… (UNHCR) would be requested to help in repatriating about 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries …