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EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on … by licence holders. Many people already employed in the liquor…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… days after he made his famous speech "Winds of Change In Africa" in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his gratitude to the ANC for … BBC NEWS , (1960),…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… appointed to investigate detainee abuse allegations in ANC camps abroad. The members of the Commission, Louis … had been committed at the Quatro…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… dirty tricks campaign against liberation organisations, in particular the African National Congress (ANC). During … application Coetzee outlined a plot to…
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… the Crown. Lugard employed this system with great success in West Africa. However in reducing traditional systems of governance to a subordinate position in…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… the end of World War I. The League of Nations was put in place to ensure that war is avoided at all costs globally. … between countries by either engaging…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… took place here, on 11 July 1900, was a fierce Battle in which three Victoria Crosses were earned in circumstances initially remarkably similar to the Battle…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… 1943 These organisations of the Non-European, which in themselves are not political parties dies embracing … of opinion from every walk of life, have met…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… the State President of South Africa, PW Botha, speaking in parliament, offered Mandela his freedom on condition that … Previous offers were conditional on…
PlaceMamelodi
… Melodies. Mamelodi has a Population of 334 577, this was in the 2011 Census. Lucky Montana once a Resident of … origins of the many families that were the…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… sociopolitical trajectory of the country, are quite vague. In fact, the ‘when, how and by whom’ of the discovery is one … the gold-bearing conglomerate reef…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… 1948 respected academic Professor Njabulo Ndeble was born in Coronation Hospital in Johannesburg, where his mother worked as a nurse. [1] He matriculated in…
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… Marsha Marescia Cox was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 13 January 1983. She is a South … than 330 caps. Her debut for the South African team was in 2001…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… The village of Groot Drakenstein was probably established in the late 1850s. Following the acquisition of a number of fruit farms in the valley by Cecil John…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria , took the examinations of the … of the Transvaal University College, which…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… a banning order, was admitted to practice as an attorney in Kimberley. In 1969, Sobukwe finally left Robben Island, only to be … where he was banned from…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
… With the wind of change powerfully blowing in South Africa, the National Party under the leadership of … called for the opening of its membership to all…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… During the South African War in 1899, Marconi wireless equipment was tested in South Africa, with mixed results. Land-based military … but five Marconi…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… On 31 December 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered resigning from the African National … of nine members of the ANC at Dakawa and Mazimbu in Tanzania on…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… Paul Regan "Rhorho" Adams was born in Grassy Park, Cape Town. He began playing cricket at a very … bowling style that made it hard for him to breakthrough in…
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… Luthuli told the Natal ANC in 1949: We cannot say that Africans are accepting fast … They have not accepted fully the basic truth enshrined in the saying, no…
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
… of our movement. Our movement has made its name in the history of liberation movements, not only of Africa … courage and commitment - have played their roles…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… fruit-canning factory. There were three canning factories in Port Elizabeth: H. Jones, Langeberg, which made Koo fruit, … orange juice and so forth. There…
The Treason Trial: Foreword by Chief Albert Luthuli to a book by Helen Joseph, 1963
… contribution to the literature of the liberatory movement in South Africa. The treason trial must occupy a special place in South African history. That grim…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… face the challenge of coming to terms with the past in ways which will enable us to face the future as a united … task of dealing with gross violations of…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… and Gentlemen. It is barely three hours since we landed in the Republic of Korea, and already, we can feel the ground … as our delegation may be from home,…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… the extreme reactionary and Pro-Fascist forces represented in the Nationalist Party. This decision on general election … at by the National Conference…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… is between fifteen and forty people, usually live together in what we call a band. Everybody belongs somewhere and no … mother's people: whatever territory…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 6: Towards social change
… the Social Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society focusing on social change and ethnic politics in apartheid South Africa…
ArchiveGroup conflicts and race prejudice
… This lecture is the third in the series Hoernle Memorial Lecture in which there is discussion on the topic of race prejudices in South Africa and the impact…