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Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… Introduction The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. … the civil liberties of the Indians. The…
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) held in Cape Town , unanimously resolved to oppose the proposed … earn a decent living and ultimately condemn…
ArchiveThe Basotho Origin of Mathematics - A Public Lecture By Zulumathabo Zulu
… The popular myth in South Africa is that the African natives were devoid of … advent of the Europeans. The Basotho have used mathematics in order to count,…
EventTribute to Joost van der Westhuizen
… Rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen, at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. After a long battle with Motor Neuron Disease (MND), Joost was rushed to hospital on…
EventKaren Muir
… from Kimberley became the youngest world record holder in any sport in the history of organised sport.[i] Karen Muir broke the … world record at the British…
ArchiveOpening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 1981.
… of repression of students. Discusses political events in South Africa, in particular, the emergence of a Broad Democratic Front … apartheid, and the role…
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… and was duly rewarded with economic aid this changed in 1996. South Africa decided to move closer China as a partner in politics and economics. While Mandela…
Mayibuye
… hampered by conditions of illegality. Publication began in late in 1966 with the aim of stimulating political debate and … the banned Congress to the masses…
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… The tenth address in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Emory Ross, in which he discusses the conflict of race and colour from a … African…
PlaceRuimzicht House, 10 Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
… This double-storey dwelling was built in the late 1890s and boasts of a number of fine Victorian … House thereon, being Erf 999, Tamboerskloof, situate in…
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… inspiring Tolerance message from Nelson Mandela has run in 82 countries. It debuted on April 30, 2006 in the program 60 MINUTES on CBS and is believed to be…
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) took … 1974. Ali won the fight when he knocked out…
PlacePioneer's Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
… Museum in a former synagogue featuring exhibits on Jewish life & History in Port Elizabeth. The Jewish Pioneers’ Memorial Museum is … expect when it is a…
EventGeneral Muhamed Lamari, head of Algeria’s army, resigns for health reasons.
… non-specific health reasons. Lamari had played a key role in the fight against Islamic fighters. President Abdelaziz … military staff. Lamari had been an…
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
… were now free to invite South African athletes to compete in Kenya and to send Kenyan athletes to sports events in South Africa. This marked the end of Kenya…
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. The area was inhabited predominantly by Afrikaans speaking people. In 1964 it was granted its…
EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
… The commuters were travelling from Katlehong to Germiston in a train when they set it alight. The train had earlier … started the fire. Setting trains on…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… In 1935, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University … to compile the Revised English Version only began in the 1940’s. A team of experts was organized…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… as South Africa's official Olympic representative body in place of the 'white' South African Sports Association … Africa from the Olympic Games. The…
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… of Trade Unions (SACTU) was held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg. SACTU was until the banning of political organisations in 1961 the leading non-racial…
EventBar argues against the Suppression of Communism Bill
… of Communism Bill was passed, the freedom of people in South Africa would be in jeopardy. The Bar made this point with reference to a speech in parliament by…
EventThe Joint Declaration of Cooperation ("Three Doctors’ Pact") is signed
… president of the Transvaal Indian Congress. This was done in the recognition that all 'non-Europeans' should unite in the struggle against the National Party…
EventJakes Gerwel is born
… Gerwel, distinguished academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Cape. He has … Southern Cross (Gold), awarded by President…
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… of the Freedom Alliance (FA). Viljoen cited AWB behaviour in Bophuthatswana and doubted that he could ever work with … 14 March 1994, Viljoen led his party…
EventPAC attends Patriotic Front Conference
… including Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) in a Patriotic Front Conference held in Durban. The PAC initially demanded that deliberations be…
EventLegal action against election results
… The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null and void and for polling to…
EventThe National Party wins Western Cape local elections
… The defunct National Party registered a convincing victory in all three district councils during local government elections held in Western Cape Province…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… published. Mgqwetho was the first woman poet to publish in Xhosa. From 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than ninety … life, she supposedly came from the…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946 he accepted…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… for better housing for Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in Georgedale, today part of Cato Ridge. Mpanza was the only … on both sides of the law: first as a…