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EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… of 21 February 1917, when another ship, the SS Darro (10 0000 tons) travelling at full speed and emitting no … rammed the SS Mendi. The SS Mendi sailed from…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… 0n 10 February 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… for five years. Chief Luthuli was not deterred. On 10 December 1962, together with Martin Luther King he led a …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… [Online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 10 February 2011] …
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… On 10 November 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… authors who lived before 1930. Visser passed away on the 10 June 1929 after suffering a heart attack. He was buried in … living [online] Available at: www…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… a reprieve was granted and his sentence was mitigated to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, of which he served …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… for Southampton. The voyage from Southampton took a mere 10 days, and continued on to Port Elizabeth East London, and …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… in various cities and townships. In Mdantsane, Ciskei, 10 people were killed when Ciskei soldiers used force against …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… announcement by President F. W. de Klerk in parliament on 10 February 1990, that Nelson Mandela would be released from …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… three groups' application against the law failed on the 10 July 1998. The anti-abortion groups were responding to an …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… On 10 January 1908 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… their wives and children remained in the countryside. 10 years after 1886, the Johannesburg town was already the …
PlaceReitz
… temporarily stayed there and was nearly captured on 10 July 1901. Reitz featured politically again when; in 1914 …
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… The decision to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s Day was in celebration for what … the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. On that day an estimated 10…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… graduation ceremony, July 1947 (Lembede family, Umbumbulu) 10-11. Lembede's gravesite, Croesus cemetery, Johannesburg …
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD … or do not desire to join any existing…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Maxeke, form the AME Wilberforce Institute at Evaton. May 16, Members of the SANC form the Transvaal Native Congress … later became president of the ANC from…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… Act in 1959 , which provided for the establishment of 10 self-governing homelands or Bantustans. The Homelands were …
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… chronicles the events that unfolded prior and post the 16 August Marikana shooting and the subsequent aftermath. The … from Lonmin Mine go on strike…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… well as to promote and protect human rights in general. On 16 August 2012, democratic South Africa witnessed what is now … was the 2012 Marikana protest by…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… the hall to contain the overflow of the approximately 10 000 people who attended the meeting. Loudspeakers and …
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… in its recent history. And as we prepare to celebrate 10 years of democracy in South Africa next year, we stand … and rural development, South Africa has in…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… ruling party and Alliance partners, for whom this is an extra special occasion. Compatriots and friends, On this … creation. We therefore plan to increase…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… the Friday, so as to give the men from the Eastern Cape an extra day to spend with their families at the weekend. We … mass arrests for pass laws…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… S. African Fights For Freedom’ from the Sun Sentinel, 16 April [online] Available at … 2016, Phone Interview. ↵ [xii] Klug 2016, Phone Interview, 10:20-10:35…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… and languages from Malawi, Swaziland and Mozambique. [10] Therefore, Fanakalo is utilized ‘as a contact language in … is therefore connected to ‘a specific…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… organised a 'Defend Free Speech Convention', attracting 10 000 people to Market Square. The meeting proposed a … (Eastern Cape) left eleven dead, including…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… and their registration. Arms and Ammunition Act, Act No 10 of 1907 (Transvaal), prohibits the issue of arms and … 1990: 107). The Immorality Amendment…