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Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… of high treason, she again spent several months in gaol before the case collapsed. The earlier four-year gaol …
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… the corner. However, a lot of hard work still remained before the day in 1994 when freedom came to South Africa as …
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… Europe and changed the way wealth was created and shared. Before the Industrial Revolution, the aristocracy held wealth … there was to be no turning back to…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… at odds with the British colonies most of the time. Long before union, the British saw the existence of Boer Republics … The following is to be covered in…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… a difficult and dangerous struggle in the decades before the attainment of our freedom in 1994. Among other … This applies equally to the painful matter…
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… and Mr Sivuyile Botwe Qegu were convicted in the Supreme Court in Bisho for terrorism training and being in possession …
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… political and civic grievances at the Odi magistrate's court. Bophuthatswana police fired at the crowd, killing …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… (DP) leader Zach de Beer stated that: "The fact that the court found in favour of a relatively small newspaper, which …
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… had failed to present a case against them after a year of court hearings and two years in custody. The three men were …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… in 1959. He was sentenced in the Queenstown Circuit Court on 11 February 1960. His name was kept a secret by …
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… strike. 16 October, Workers go on strike and are taken to court where the magistrate instructs them to return to work … strikers and their sentences are…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… register. Free Indians are also forced to carry passes or court arrest. The South African Republic rejects a British … 8 August, Indians lose a test case in…
EventSoweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged with negligent and drunken driving
… on one mistake.References:news24.com (5 November 2004). ‘Court waiting for top-cop case’ from News 24: Breaking …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… dignity". Read more about forced removals and the Supreme Court's ruling on specific areas. …
EventThe Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act commences
… The Act No 46 of 1951 was declared invalid by the Supreme Court on constitutional grounds. The Senate was enlarged to …
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… conducted victim hearings in King Williams Town court, 1997. Ultimately the victims demanded compensation as …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… Machel , started its first hearing at the Rand Supreme Court in Johannesburg. Machel's plane crashed in Mbuzini near …
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… their claim. President Nelson Mandela fully accepted the court's decision and asked those that might have been …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… claims about land. In September 1982, the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein ruled that the Presidential … 22 July 2013)| South African History Online, ‘The Appeal…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… insists on the ANC making an honest commitment to peace before it will talk to the organisation. This is the precondition we are required to meet before the…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… for the formation of branches was standardised even before the official launch of the organisation, and branches … The farmers of Albert had become…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… different lifestyles and arrived here thousands of years before the first European people. The Khoisan were not the … Bantu-speaking people also arrived here…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… to organise a society, which aimed at coming boldly before the public and asking their encouragement. After … transcended colonial boundaries in the…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… a massive scale, segregation and forced removals occurred before the National Party came into power and introduced … by the apartheid government).Segregation…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… critical world attention on South Africa more than ever before. …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
Gangsterism is often characterized as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. There is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… Resistance Campaign, Mahomed Dadoo initiates a celebrated court case challenging the Government’s Gold Act, which …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… to be known as the Orange Free State and the Transvaal before their expansion was halted in the late nineteenth … (later Ciskei ) was occupied. Relatively…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… in 1994. We do not suffer from hunger as it used to be before 1994. We have highly qualified educators, because … million South Africans who did not have…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai 'The appeasers', declared the report of the Passive…