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EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student … protests against laws decreed to limit the freedoms of Black South Africans at…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… safeguards for all people. To harness the great resources of the country to fight the real enemies of the people, namely; poverty, hunger, unemployment, ……
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in … Black and Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of petty apartheid…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… hoped that through the elections it would get a new group of Black councillors to support it, and at the same time could assess the effect the State of…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public violence in July, were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment, three of which were…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… Ms Pearl Tshabalala, a prominent businesswoman and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who … on instruction from Samuel Jamile,…
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… sentenced in Klerksdorp to be hanged to death for the rape of a Black woman, Ginny Gotsoine in February 1985. Two other White men in the same case were found…
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… (Paper flower). The ceremony was held at the University of Pretoria. The Hertzog prize is named in honour of General J.B.M. Hertzog, former premier of the…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to … Blacks was postponed until such…
PlaceRosmead
… was inaugurated. Due to its location at the junction of the Western, Midland and Eastern Railway Systems, the … an important role in the Military and…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… and social, economic, political and institutional rights of Black people. The commemoration of his birth this year (2008) is a fitting tribute to a hero ……
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama School. Flynn was a well respected … his role as Willie Loman in the South…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker Bay, at present day Gans Bay in the Western Cape . … available while the men stood in line on…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… in South Africa, Valliammai became increasingly aware of the oppressive system she and her family were living … was sixteen she joined her mother and a large…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated with an honours degree in English … In 1963, while working in London,…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The slave … to buy his freedom and settled in the…
EventKenya is granted independence
… Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed the first all inclusive … dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to Meadowlands, Soweto . Their possessions were loaded at the back of police trucks, and…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms by the police, the government was faced…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Johannes Fouche was born in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from 1968-1975…
ArchiveStudents Representative Council: Press release
… This press release is a statement of rejection, by the Black youth of Azania, of the concept of Bantu homelands …
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa/Wits Art Museum. For a few decades, the concept of decolonisation has become a clarion…
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th … the government administration for the…
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… P." Mda (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served…
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the same year (1986) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The governing body of Games were already faced with…
PlaceCity Hall, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid the corner stone on 29 … It took…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the Islamic al Shabaab rebels. …
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political…
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites, were … from seven to one year's imprisonment…