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PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
… time it has served variously as a Prison, a Magistrates Court, a School, a Town Hall and Private Residences. More …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… in a treason trial at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court, was also brutally murdered in her home by apartheid …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… fraud by retired Judge Hilary Squires at the Durban High Court. The outcome of the politically charged trial, which …
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
… law, assented to on 20 October 1998, enabled the Labour Court to act as a special tribunal in the event of disputes …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… Tienie Groenewald was acquitted by the Durban Supreme Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha …
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… had boys, became important and powerful members of the court. Punishment was harsh. The sultan didn't just employ …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Bram often acted as our legal adviser and defended us in Court. In cases in which he could not appear or thought it … He was admitted to bail to enable him…
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… Gatsha Buthelezi objected and successfully launched a court case against the move on the grounds that the Kwazulu …
PlaceBloemfontein, Capital City of the Free State Province
… Capital of South Africa, and the seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal . The City is also the Place of Birth of …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Mazwai – often encouraging them to take centre stage. Just before the recurrence of his cancer, he was planning a …
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… Mazwai – often encouraging them to take centre stage. Just before the recurrence of his cancer, he was planning a …
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… and distributing libellous and defamatory pamphlets before being legally forced to undertake to refrain from such … toilet towards enclosing open toilets as…
PlaceRooigrond
… Tswana-speaking people settled in Machaviestad for a while before moving to Taung, after which they returned to the … later, when their anti-eviction case…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… that had been previously directed his way. During the late 1940’s, Sophiatown was the Mecca of South African jazz, an … again, clubbing those they have…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… elsewhere. The working group will aim to complete its work before 21st May 1990. It is understood that the South African … immunity from prosecution of…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… afternoon on 24 June 1995, a nation celebrated like never before. In the true spirit of Ubuntu, for the first time …
Indian education in Natal
… dismissed pupils were readmitted and taught separately, as before, from the senior boys by a woman teacher. The annual … excluded from attendance at the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… by C. H. Calpin In the middle thirties a case came before the Courts in which a European man avowed that he … Law in the Transvaal and the Free State forbids…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… treason under the Terrorism Act by the Pretoria Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for entering South Africa to …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… blast destroys the cells behind the Langa Commissioner's Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law offenders have … ten years in prison for High Treason…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 March 1940. Mostert’s Mill is the only working windmill South of …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… 1974) * Barend Jacobus Du Plessis : was born on 19 January 1940 in Orlando, Johannesburg and grew up in Boksburg. He … Chaskalson : a former SA president of…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… balance, was the outcome of our discussions. Today I stand before you as a representative of a nation being born;a … the stars. Indeed, the irony of our late…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… Background and policy of apartheid Before we can look at the history of the apartheid period it … of segregation of the South African governments existing…
EventTwo men are sentenced to death for petrol executions
… after they were accused of being police informers. The court found that Mr Maowasha was the leader of the youth …
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… The Appeal Court handed down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… Zuma was implicated in corruption during the Durban High Court trial of his former financial advisor, Schabir Shaik. …
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
… area of Tanta, testified in her petition to the family court that she had no particular complaint against her …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… in the world. It was approved by the Constitutional Court on 4 December 1996 and signed by President Nelson …
EventLegal action against election results
… Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null and …