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PlaceFaculty of Health Sciences, UCT Observatory
… The oldest medical school in South Africa, offer a variety of educational, training and … charm and begs a visit from every person who finds himself in the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… The Nyasaland Crisis, M.W. Kanyama Chuime. Rider and Horse in Northern Rhodesia, Kenneth Kaunda. The Crucible of … Kenya at the Cross-Roads, Tom Mboya. A…
PlaceDoringbaai, Cape West Coast
… - Ocean Views, diverse Coastal Vegetation and Seabirds. In the Season there are plenty of flowers in the Area, and Heaviside Dolphins and South-Right Whales,…
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… The Rand Daily Mail newspaper was closed in April 1985. The South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN) … and presses when the overdraft soared to R40 million…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the … the police tried to turn him against…
EventThe Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act commences
… 46 of 1951 to remove Coloureds from the common voters roll in the Cape. The Act No 46 of 1951 was declared invalid by … which would ensure them a victory to…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Organisation (AZAPO) was formed at an inaugural conference in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg. The organisation was based … that had been banned on 19 October…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… a White, student organisation, served an important role in unifying and voicing student protests against laws decreed … Commission Report, as it came to be…
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… History has shown that South Africa was successful in accomplishing most of these goals that emerged from this … the greatest threat to Apartheid was not a…
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… dubbed the Mandela United Football Club' (MUFC) . In 1997 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reached … that Madikizela-Mandela was guilty and had…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) at a special conference in Ulundi. The party set the following aims to itself: To … To ensure the maintenance if a stable,…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… Black and White would be voting on the same day, although in different elections. By this the state hoped that through … minority rule and apartheid, which…
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… South African team to conquer the highest mountain in the world. Their jubilation was dampened when a member of … Cathy O'Dowd went on to reach the summit of…
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… of the Transvaal Republic after annexation by Britain in 1877. This rail link between Transvaal en Delagoa Bay was … Cape. After discovery of the main gold…
PlaceFort Beaufort
… included the Kat River Settlement, which was separated in 1858 when it was proclaimed the division of Stockenstrom. … 5,096 were literate It has developed…
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… the first African country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the African National … first couple to wed, Vernon Gibbs and Tony…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… The Victoria Falls Bridge was constructed in 1905 at the height of British penetration of Northern and … has become one of the most visited tourist…
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… 1879, the British Army suffered its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu soldiers overran a British camp of … The battlefield of Isandlwana became a…
Foreword
… representatives of NGOS and individuals who worked both in the British and international anti-apartheid movement. The … of South Africa House for their…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… that some comrades' names could not be mentioned. I learnt in the 1940s that there had been a one-time nun in the leadership of the Workers Party of South…
3. Charge of assault against an estate manager
… and went home. Half an hour after [,] the white man who is in charge of the Coolies at the mill, came to me, and said … on, at the same time struck me with a…
Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… reach ANC headquarters at Chief Albert Luthuli House and, in time, other ANC offices. ANC national spokesperson, Smuts … service forms part of the ANC`s…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Charles van Onselen was born on 14 August 1944, in the South African town of Boksburg, Gauteng (then … Charles van Onselen has truly impacted the manner in…
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… A brief report appeared on the 13th of November in the Times, which was the last of the legal conclusions … sufficient rescue assistance of the SS Mendi men…
PlaceMaclear's Beacon
… vast natural beauty of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town , South Africa. This World Heritage Site was origanally caled; 'Hoerikwago' , which…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… The Village and the Castle, Owen Williams. Apartheid in Nursing-a Challenge, an African Nurse and Fr. Martin … An African Diary, Rosalynde Ainslie. Political…
PlaceFraserburg
… was proclaimed a separate division on 12 December 1853. In about January 1890 its Southern Districts were given over … known as the Peperbus on certain piece…
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… 1963. The old Government Building at Boksburg is situated in Church Street near the station and the well-known Boksburg Lake. The building was designed in…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… was assassinated and his body was severely mutilated in an act of barbaric brutality on 19 November 1981. His … and agents of the apartheid government‘s…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… Mdluli died of an injury to his neck while being detained in Durban security headquarters. His death occurred just a day after his arrest in connection with…