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ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book, Ruth … Multi-Racial…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South … since 1854 and has immense Historical value. The nucleus of…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… During the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a … to the Government and companies registered under the laws of the…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation). Mandela founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) with … the apartheid…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… This natural water feature marks the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon . The potholes were named after Tom … to create these formations are the Treur River…
B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… The Honourable B. J. Vorster is not only one of the most active speakers in the Republic of South Africa, but also one of the most sought after. As a speaker…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation newspaper. He also founded the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA)…
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes … Barker made a significant contribution to the…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King led blacks in the Montgomery bus…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… Neil Aggett, former organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and … issued a call that on 11 February 1982, that on the day of his…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Johannesburg. The organisation was based on the philosophy of Black Consciousness advocated by Steven Biko. It was open … but closed to Whites. AZAPO emerged…
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… The Minister of Justice, James Thomas (JT, Jimmy) Kruger, announced that the provisions of the Internal Security Act, allowing for the unlimited detention…
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…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… most affected. The violence took place under the State of Emergency, which was declared in 1985 by President PW … apartheid government, but soon spread…
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…
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…
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…