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EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… In the Rand Supreme Court, Justice Coetzee, refused to lift … Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan. In additon, the security police served…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian leaders are convicted of conspiracy …
EventNelson Mandela continues his international tour
… countries such as Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania. In Sweden Mandela had an opportunity to reunite for the first … time after 28 years with his…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… The SASOL petrol plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, went up in flames after a giant gas explosion, this time not as … Sasol, Explosion at Sasol Polymers'…
EventMobutu Sese Seko dies
… former president of Zaire, died from prostate cancer while in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly … Click here to read an article about…
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… Republic (Transvaal), representing the Vryheid district in 1897 and also Boer general during Anglo-Boer War 2 , Louis … Herbert Gladstone to constitute a…
PlaceCyphergat Station
… that De Beers issued compound tokens to to natives working in the coal mine as payment and that they were used in a similar way to De Beers tokens elsewhere…
EventFirst Black-owned newspaper is published
… (Opinion of the People), was published by Thanda Press in King William's Town as an independent political newspaper … War) from August 1901 until 1902. Imvo…
ArchiveFinal Schlebusch report on NUSAS
… responses to some of the points likely to be raised in the report. Because of the possibility of overseas funds … is a suggestion to pre-empt this by…
PlaceAlbertville, Johannesburg
… Albertskroon, to the South-East of it. It was laid out in 1896 on the Farm 'Waterval' and was named in honour of the owner, Hendrick Abraham Alberts, who was…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 9: The Kennedy visit, the truth
… the freedom-fighters and their struggle for liberation in South Africa. APDUSA claims to have in their posession a document entitled, …
ArchiveInterview with Mr H Molooi
… Interview with Mr H Molooi at Chesterville in Durban, South Africa, in which he discusses his acquaintance with Mrs Ngcobo, and …
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
… the Communist Party of Great Britain, SACP participation in the London meeting of the Communist Parties marking the … the Great October Socialist Revolution,…
ArchiveUDF Unites To Expose What Underlies Reform
… up paper; text: The United Democratic Front was launched in Cape Town in Agust 1983 to unite a broad range of organisations against …
ArchiveWhite and Black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
… This is the twenty-sixth lecture in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Chief M … policies. He discusses the existing multi-ethnicity in South…
PlaceHillside House, 14 Bird Street, Port Elizabeth
… The property was originally granted to George Daniel Diesel in 1824. The building was presumably erected after that date … with a number of Victorian…
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… prisoners, who were labelled militants, were arrested in order to calm down the growing opposition against Kwame … Nkrumah's government, which had rejected…
EventArtist Allina Ndebele is born
… president Thabo Mbeki bestowed the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver on her for excellent contribution in the field of the creative arts. …
EventState Security Council Approves Cross
… of military operations against liberation movements in foreign countries. The Departments of Foreign Affairs, … admits that such actions would be difficult…
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… Pik Botha, South African ambassador in the United States of America (USA), returns to South … about Botha's political career and his visit to Beijing in 1991…
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
… re-established consular relations which had been severed in 1956. Though the visit was unofficial Botha managed to … visit. Botha also announced the opening…
EventP.W. Botha resigns from the National Party
… and head of state, P.W. Botha, resigned from the party in protest against President F.W. de Klerk's reform … He had resigned as state president on 14 August…
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… and Nelson Mandela had discussed policy matters or engaged in negotiations on 5 July, but acknowledged that they had confirmed their support for peaceful…
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… by American President Ronald Reagan. He was instrumental in efforts to end Apartheid and get Nelson Mandela out of prison. He served in this post until 1989,…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… Committee member of the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng. She was MEC for Public Works and Transport in Gauteng before being appointed as…
EventMiriam Makeba is nominated for a Grammy
… legendary musical sensation, Miriam Makeba, was nominated in the category World Music Album for her album Homeland at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death … Movement, was shot dead outside Bridgeway…
EventFanie de Villiers ends his last Test triumphantly
… de Villiers played his last cricket match for South Africa in the third Test match against Pakistan at St George's Park, … Port Elizabeth. De Villiers ended…
EventDr. Chris Barnard, medical practitioner who performed the first heart transplant, is born
… who performed the first heart transplant, was born in Beaufort West, Western Cape. Dr. Barnard studied medicine … of Cape Town. His first practice was at…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein set aside Winnie Madikizela … to assault. This was imposed by the lower court judge in favour of a fine that was a payment…