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EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… an active role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African Football Association (SAFA). Singh was also a regular contributor to the sports…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in … served six years on Robben Island after being found guilty of sabotage under…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… A combined force of seven thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops … Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville…
EventBram Fischer dies
… Former leader of South African Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house in Bloemfontein. After news of his…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… His party will be based on three pillars: the restoration of family values and the fear of God, the deepening of democracy, and a market based developmental…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
… his father, Jozua Franchoise NaudÁƒÂƒ©, a founding member of the Broederbond. He was one of eight children and was raised in the heart of Afrikanerdom…
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) (South African … for controlling local matters. All…
EventRDP White Paper is tabled in Parliament
… that the civil service is more representative in terms of ethnic group and gender. It also proposed the use of affirmative action to reverse imbalances that…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… bring into government political parties that were not part of the Government of National Unity (GNU). This was his part of nation building and reconciliation…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… This prompted opposition parties to oppose this provision of the Internal Security Act. Sections 19(1) and 20 dealt with the banning of people, including…
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
… This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NUSAS Art and Liberation Week, … "IIdeology, the State and South African film", "The right of the…
Place'Angra das Vaccas', Mossel Bay
… Inlet on the Coast of the Indian Ocean, South-West of Mossel Bay. Old name for Vleesbaai. It was given its name … 'Vleeschbaai', by Paulus van Caerden. …
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass through the tunnel regularly. The speed at … or how he managed to evade surveillance…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two official photographers … legislation, were held. On the island,…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… to an end a five-year rent boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in the negotiations to create … agreed to: To end the five year rent…
EventPiet Retief, Voortrekker leader, is born
… what became the Cape Colony under British rule. At the age of 27 he left for Stellenbosch, but eventually settled in … a manifesto in 1837 in which he listed…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… The senior political writer of the Sunday Times, Ranjeni Munusamy, was suspended by the … a story on spy allegations involving the National Director of…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… 2002. The train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was made up of women from across Africa who wanted to raise awareness around the impact of civil wars,…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in … Eastern Cape. In 1894 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… to undermine his father’s authority and assumed control of the kingdom. By the time Mpande died, he was only King by … the ultimatum, war broke out. The…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age. At the age…
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… The largest of Bloemfontein's many Recreational spots, the Park has many … Free State, South Africa. There are two Parks on the West of the City Centre,…
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current … and attempting to reduce the international isolation of…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the … to be in their good…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
… vote or to boycott for their new candidates in the House of Representatives and in the House of Delegates. It goes further to describe and outline the…
ArchiveAfrica beyond the Union
… This address is the fifth of the Heornle Memorial Lecture series delivered by W.M. … the political, economic and social conditions of countries outside of…
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… Archive, situated in the Main Library at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation…
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity … the government that the present political…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… site in 1967. It was originally built in 1871 as a result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail … trial for conspiring to commit…