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EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being … funds, and whether the thousands…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… of America 84 East 10th Street New York Dear Comrade:- In our last meeling held on the 22 of April, 1932 at 9 Fuller … our notice is Volume V, whole No.97…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
… high profile member of the United Democratic Front,died in police custody. He was awaiting trial on subversion charges at Fort Glarmorgan Prison in East…
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… of Nelson Mandela, which was held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Thousands of people sang and danced in celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… Museum' is a Natural and Cultural History Museum located in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa … of South African Names by…
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
… developed and its boundaries probably began to be defined in 1679 when the first public building, a slave lodge, today …
EventMandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique
… counterpart Joaquim Chissano. The meeting resulted in the two countries entering into the RSA/Mozambique Joint … an enabling mechanism to sign more than…
PlaceMakhonjwa Mountains, Barbeton
… Situated in North-Eastern South Africa, the site comprises 40% of the … South African World Heritage Sites! This Mountain is found in the Somgimvelo Game…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It … the San language meaning ‘whiter than white’ which was in…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… to South Africa to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the Soviet Union…
EventJohn Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb
… A time bomb placed in the Johannesburg railway station exploded during the evening rush hours. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and severe…
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… Houari Souyah, President of the Algerian Peace Committee in Algiers, to Dr Yussuf Dadoo, a former President of the … (SAIC) and the leader of the anti…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela , the central figure in the trial,…
EventRobert McBride is born
… chief of Ekurhuleni Metro Police, Robert McBride, was born in Addington Hospital, Durban. McBride led the ANC's armed … we Sizwe cell, which planted a bomb…
EventMarthinus van Schalkwyk is born
… He replaced FW de Klerk as leader of the National Party in 1997 and later changed the name of the party to New … general elections announced that his party…
EventSeparate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed
… Following years of struggle in courts and abortive parliamentary attempts to pass the … It removed Coloured voters from the common voters roll in the Cape…
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… 1 September 1978. Vorster and Mulder were later implicated in the 'information scandal' about attempts of the Department … Defence budget to buy…
EventBeyers Naude refuses to testify before the Schlebusch Commission
… Students (NUSAS) and the Institute of Race Relations. In October 1975 he was convicted by the Pretoria Regional … Court for his defiance and was fined R50,…
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… elected President of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the early 1960's and the world conference on 'Church and … the outspoken cleric Bishop Desmond…
EventHomeland leader Qqozo stands trial
… Qqozo, military leader of Ciskei homeland, went on trial in the Ciskei Supreme Court. He faced charges of murder or … killing of Lieutenant Charles Sebe…
EventTranskei Defense Force topples Transkei Bantustan leader George Matanzima, but denies coup
… Major-General Bantu Holomisa. The army denied taking part in any coup and announced that ministers who resigned were … did not run away from Transkei but was…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of … an international case that…
EventElize Botha dies
… died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western Cape. About three hundred people, … Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu,…
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… to achieve its objectives. A list of ANC members who died in exile, including the names of 34 members executed by order of a military tribunal, was also…
EventCyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
… of a belief that he has been overlooked by Nelson Mandela in naming him the second most powerful person in the country instead of Thabo Mbeki. Ramaphosa was…
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… National Congress (ANC) between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation. Van der Merwe … to carry out these brutalities against…
EventWinnie Mandela is dismissed from government
… weeks of speculations on the fate of Winnie Mandela in the government, president Nelson Mandela eventually … should review her position and seek to improve…
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
… of office wearing their specially designed green robes in the presence of the president and the minister of justice, … of the death penalty. The court spent…
EventGovernment withdraws ten police officers from service
… Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, President F.W. De Klerk announced that a further ten unnamed officers implicated…
EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… international world strongly sympathised with South Africa in the aftermath of the massacre. Tambo left the country … a job as a nurse. The family returned…