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EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… were accused of treason in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court. The trial became known as the Pietermaritzburg Treason … the accused were released following…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… African Mine Workers' Union presented an unanswerable case before this Commission in support of the workers' claim to a … the recruiting of mine labourers…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… crashed to a point that would take ‘another 20 years’ before ‘the Dow regained enough momentum to surpass the … and that rate continued to hover above 14%…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… centre. Further extensions made to the gallery began in 1940 when East-West wings were added along to the South … permanent collection of South African art -…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… involvement was revealed. Mulder had to appear in court and was charged with contempt. On 30 August 1979, he was acquitted of this charge by the Supreme…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… by a British column and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. … was also a serious doubt as to…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… Pretoria. The defence team lawyer, Bram Fischer told the court that transport which was suppose to bring the accused to the court, had broken down. The…
Glossary: Transport through time
… talk about ancient times, we usually talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist … A tyre inflated…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… War led to Hertzog's fall. He retired from politics in 1940 and on 21 November 1942, he died in Pretoria, at age of …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
During the 1940s, Bram Fischer served on the Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… back the former deputy president outside the city's High Court on Monday. The immediate area outside the court was cordoned off but some of Mr Zuma's…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… Building work started on the Griqualand West Supreme Court, on the Market Square in 1882 and took two Years to … was added on in 1889. The building remained…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… refused the aid of an attorney, on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction over him because it could not be considered either a court of law or a…
ArticleThe Transkei
… and conducted cases on the pattern of a magistrate’s court. With slight modifications to adapt the pattern to heal …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… by independent judges, or The Hague by an international court of justice." After the bombing, Western leaders … bombing and handed over the suspects to the…
CAPS Grade 6: The Transatlantic Slave Trade - term 2
… South Content and concepts · West Africa before the European slave trade · The nature of slavery in West Africa before Europeans · …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… allowed to form and join registered unions. Until about 1940, African trade unions remained small, weak and divided. … Transvaal Indian Congress and the Cape…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… hopes, dreams and aspirations for a future South Africa. Before we discuss the glorious day in the history of our … had emerged from the crucible of the mass…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… and Gentlemen, It is a singular honour for me to stand before you today to receive this degree, I accept it not as … a firm moral basis for law and law…
Post-detention weapons
… this statute was not entitled to a hearing by the minister before the order was made, nor could he or she appeal against … were open to attack and many were…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… comes to live in Wattville, Benoni 6 December, Two days before the Bishop of Johannesburg was due to prepare him for … women of South Africa were free 29…
EventPres Mandela's testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into … to answer certain questions,…
PlaceTokai, Cape Town
… a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built in the late 1940's due to the urgent need for housing for South African … a range of Hills in Hungary. It was built…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… on Human and Peoples Rights, Judges of the Supreme Court, Vice-Chancellors, Delegates to this Workshop on Human … and again in 1955 in the Freedom Charter…
EventAmina Lawal's sentence upheld
… On 19 August 2002, an Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of … year old woman had been convicted of adultery by a village…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… without deviation, to the bench of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the position of Chief Justice. It … him the first president of the country's…
PlaceGriqualand West
… Building work started on the Griqualand West Supreme Court , on the Market Square in 1882 and took two Years to … was added on in 1889. The building remained…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… education diploma at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1940 and became a teacher at the Karoo Secondary School in …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… and both his legs were amputated by 1938. On 10 August 1940, he died and was buried in the hills of Muizenberg. Sir …