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EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… F.W. de Klerk appointed Mr Justice Louis Harms, a Supreme Court judge, to investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 …
EventAdvocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated
… confirmed by Judge Harold Levy of the Namibian Supreme Court, when he concluded that the CCB conspired to murder …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… The Supreme Court convicted former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock (dubbed …
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… health. Marthinus Theunis Steyn, also a judge of the High Court like his predecessor, was elected as next president by …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… but won the appeal against the conviction at the Appeal Court. Click here to read about Nelson Mandela's reaction to …
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that date. This special project examines the Freedom …
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… to the Arts Centre 43 in Albany Alley for three months, before settling in a more permanent building, which was a …
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… and herders, they also arrived here hundreds of years before any Europeans did. These farmers brought more new … new research proves that they were here…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… for Land and Housing of the Indian People of Natal. 1940-1946. Durban: Madiba Publishers, 1991 Bhana, S., & …
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… cadences, the argument detailing a quotidian existence before the poet springs open the trap-door into a passage … like Biko or Norman Dubazane or Jeff Baqwa…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… moment symbolises. Honourable Deputy Chairperson; Long before the gruelling sessions of the final moments, it had … real problems. Today we celebrate that…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… some of the needy families, those people who are going to court and imprisonment." We in New York were deeply impressed … supporters of the effort. On 18…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… some of the needy families, those people who are going to court and imprisonment." We in New York were deeply impressed … supporters of the effort. On 18…
The strangulation of activity
… supported or furthered the objects of communism before the Act came into law. Thus people could be penalised … unrest in the Ciskei. This banning was…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… and Members of Parliament; 8 Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa; as well as numerous … boarders were housed in Rissik House for the first…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… office door. It later transpired that they were removed before he bothered to look at them. Then at Lilian Ngoyi's … huge crowd stood in absolute silence for…
Conflict among civic organisations
… The ANC received Wilkinson with suspicion and vetted him before asking him to carry out the attack. Wilkinson returned … them in wine-box decanters in their…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… Their investigations also revealed that Biko was assaulted before he was transported to Pretoria without any medical … of Biko lying in his coffin was taken…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… Crossroads of Native Policy We have, as a problem set before us, to make up our minds what sort of a Native policy … must first be penalised for its…
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… (n.d.), ‘1. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA’from The Justice Department Republic of …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan …
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… from Ireland. James Fitzpatrick served as a Supreme Court judge in the Cape Colony and following his death Percy …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… South that “the Depression had been going on for ten years before black people even knew about it,” even knew it … found himself in debt. So, the Depression…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… and selective actions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the fact that permanent members of the UN … People’s Rights and on the Establishment of…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… to establish it in the trial, as well as outside the court room, comprised patterns of behaviour that were … to establish it in the trial, as well as outside…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… Past students who rose to leadership are Onkgopotse Tiro (before he moved to Barolong High School because of a pass …
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
… executive as well. He was detained in August 1984, just before the Tricameral elections, with Archie Gumede , Mewa …
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Mgulwa Dr Aubrey Mokoape had spent 2 yrs in Robben Island before going to Natal Aubrey Mokoena Local Chairman of SASO, …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… that the relatives of those detained had taken immediate court action for our release, and had been successful in … be released the next day. Tuesday 12…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… any further torture had been banned. 25 April, Testifying before the Harms Commission, which was taking testimony at … the regime that unless all the…