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… The first mail boat from London, The Eclipse, arrives in Table Bay after a voyage …

… Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia after thirty years of civil war following a …

… of the Egyptian forces who freed Jerusalem in 1917 from the Turks, is born. …

… Fehr (75), first collector of Africana who imported it from abroad, dies in Cape Town. …

… Diamonds to the worth of about £50,000 are stolen from the post office in Cape Town. …

… the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later. …

… Tanganyika gains full internal self-government from Britain (technically under a League of Nations Trustee …

… Republic) government is officially transferred from Potchefstroom to …

… of the Egyptian forces who freed Jerusalem in 1917 from the Turks, is born. …

… Herero Revolt: Gobabis is besieged. A German company from Outjo is ambushed at Okanjande near present-day …

… of the ZAR approves of the construction of a railway line from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay …

… Letter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown addressed to … Letter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown to the …

… racial discrimination. The world increasingly moved away from ideas of racial superiority after the horrors of WWII, … year, with a Centre Against Apartheid being established in 1976 and 1978-9 being declared International Anti-Apartheid … and its strengthening of relations with the West When BJ Vorster came to power in 1966 people were not quite sure …

… Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. - Mac Maharaj 1 Introduction From about July 1985, … leaders met the Commonwealth EPG between February and May 1976, their amenability to negotiations was again evident. … ‘Statistics: Terrorism in the RSA. Period: 1 January 1976 - 30 September 1990 [Monthly Breakdown], in App/A/17.2 ; …

… in 1936, she broke her husband’s record when she flew from England to Cape Town in 3 days, 6 hours and 36 minutes. … Amy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes …

… Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown … Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood|South … A. (2011), ‘ More PAC activists hanged in 60s ’, from iol , 14 December, [online], Available at: www.iol.co.za …

… vigorously against the removal of coloured people from the voters roll.   Later she became a member of the … Helen Joseph untook a process of gathering information from individuals who were banished under the banishment … Riot Police in the Killings and Burnings, Nyanga, December 1976 ”, she was arrested, tried and convicted alongside …

… arrest for five years with strict conditions barring him from being in the company of more than three people at a time … him to continue to work; however, that did not deter him from continuing with his underground political work as … instance, he worked underground with students during the 1976 and 1977 school uprising through his daughter Mandisa, …

… a treasonable activity. The trial lasted until the end of 1976 and took place in Johannesburg. They were defended by …

… with regard to a variety of matters, including freedom from colonial and white minority domination, the environment … invite leaders of the world and representatives of people from all walks of life to join us in the pursuit of this … Break" in An African Elegy, Vintage, London: 1997.)   From Stockholm, to Rio de Janeiro, to Johannesburg, let us …

… We take the opportunity to salute all the leading figures from the various solidarity committees throughout the world … Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee …

… Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and … and politics. At a time when it was unusual for someone from the privileged White class to interact with others … Alive, which was presented to Suzman in 1990. When the 1976 Soweto Uprisings took place, Menell helped set up the …

… From:  South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … to crown the work, and that is a little Introduction from the hand of our great leader. Will Comrade Trotsky … Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International …

… From:  South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International … on the basis of their published theoretical divergences from the principles espoused by the Workers Party. …

… Letter from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, … Letter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, …

… Hard work was introduced to the young Mthembu early on as, from the tender age of just seven years old, he would … grandmother to go work in the mealie fields. During the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Mthembu was a learner at Elukhanyisweni … Highveld Steel Corporation working as a training officer from 1980 to 1984 and was later promoted to be one of the …

… laws that were implemented by the government; the June 1976 student uprisings were against the introduction of the … 1919 anti-pass campaign. A week later, a breakaway group from the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) held its … for the better.  In Cape Town , Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu was at St George's Cathedral with his congregation ready …

… A Military History of South Africa From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid by Timothy …

… Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 by Hakim Adi and …

… Census statistics based on previous censuses taken from Kane-Berman J and Tempest J (eds) South Africa Survey …