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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 …
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…
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 …
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… critical world attention on South Africa more than ever before. …
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…
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…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… the centre of those urgent expansion plans first brought before policymakers as far back as 1997 was the power … halted by a legal challenge in the Western…
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…
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…
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…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… Resistance Campaign, Mahomed Dadoo initiates a celebrated court case challenging the Government’s Gold Act, which …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… 10h30-11h00: Site seeing at new police station and court 11h30-11h50: Walkabout at the new hospital in Vosloorus …
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… assistance of the SS Mendi men stranded in the water. The court accepted the payment of £87 415 16s. 10d. for the loss …
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… Store-rooms, a Hall and the Toilets, as well as the Court-yard of the School, situated on Erf 2100, in …