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Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
Frances Rix Ames was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), on 20 April 1920. Her father deserted the family when she was still an infant, leaving her…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
Caesarina Kona Makhoere was born near Pretoria in 1955. Her father was a policeman and her mother worked as a domestic worker. At a young age she was forcibly…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
MILESTONES 1910 - Birth of Mohambry (Monty) Naicker to Papiah Gangathura, a fruiterer, and Dhanamal, of Leopold Street, Durban. 1917-1926 - Attended the…
BiographyDavid Thlolanyane Mabe
David Thlolanyane Mabe, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Western Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 26…
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… England won at Newlands in 1889, 1892, 1896, 1899 and 1906. South Africa finally turned the tables in the second of two tests played at Newlands in 1906,…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
(Press report) "The struggle for freedom must go on no matter how hard the struggle might be! It must go on because Freedom is the noblest human attainment…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 30 Novermber 1976, Volume 71
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Professor Helm and others, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 29 November 1976, Volume 67
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Alexander Paul Hare, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, D. Crowie and others, members of the…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 29 November 1976, Volume 65
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Peter Sawyer, a technical official from Cape Town, who had witnessed the use of tear gas to disperse crowds, to…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 November 1976, Volume 62
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Lawrence Louis Meyer a parent whose son had been shot by riot police and Jeffrey David April, a witness to the…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 November 1976, Volume 61
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Arthur Sydney Anthony East, an attorney and a Councillor of the City of Cape Town; Sanna Elizabeth Fourie, senior…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 22 November 1976, Volume 58
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Duggan, a reporter with the Cape Times newspaper; Robert Maxwell Molloy, also a reporter with the Cape Times…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 November 1976, Volume 51
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Sehume, a teacher at Moroka High School, Thaba Nchu; Howard Leighton Setlalentoa, a circuit inspector of Bantu…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 10 November 1976, Volume 49
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Francis Mohlabi, Assistant Secretary for Education for Kwa-Kwa, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 26 October 1976, Volume 40
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Joseph Bafunani Mokoena, a scholar at the Phatametsane High School; Ignatius Wilhelm Ackermann, the Chief…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 October 1976, Volume 39
Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence from Sonny Milton Ndala, a member of the Advisory Board of Witbank; Solomon Mahlangu, a teacher and…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 October 1976, Volume 38
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Sonny Milton Ndala, a member of the Advisory Board of Witbank, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 13 October 1976, Volume 26
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Suzanne Gordon and Maria Gordon Ledochovski; Colonel Herbert James Brown; Hans Bukofzer, Principal District…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 24 September 1976, Volume 14
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mervin Kenneth Rees and Mat Manyana, both reporters from The Rand Daily Mail newspaper, to the Commission of…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 22 September 1976, Volume 11
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from William Bokhala and Vusamuzulu Pumelelo Credo Mtetwa to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and…