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EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… this date is under dispute as some sources consider the 11 April 1979 as the date Amin fled Uganda. … Idi Amin is the Greatest Ugandan' . UNAA Times […
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… anti-abortion groups were responding to an act passed on 11 December 1996. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906, Gandhi adopted his approach to non-violent …
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… of a threat to peace and prosperity in South Africa. On 11 December 1878, under the flimsy pretext of a few minor …
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
… ceremony, July 1947 (Lembede family, Umbumbulu) 10-11. Lembede's gravesite, Croesus cemetery, Johannesburg …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… called on the prime minister, General J.C. Smuts , on 11 February and urged him to postpone the legislation, …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… held under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. 1977 September 11 Biko is transferred to Pretoria. He was driven naked and …
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… across the media and popular culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks affected the Western attitudes towards Muslims. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Zeerust in the District of Rustenberg the second son of 11 children, to Samuel Segogwane and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, …
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. ... read more 1977 11 September, Biko is transferred to Pretoria. He was driven …
English Settlement in South Africa
… and Major General James Craig sailed into False Bay on 11 June 1775, the British produced papers claiming that they …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… which sprout out of the colonisation process at the Cape. [11] The nomadic Khoikhoi, who moved around the Cape according … at: https://www.sahistory.org.za…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… They further took hold of his private part with a plier [11] . When the transformation to an Askari was not possible, … Apartheid Death Squads, 1979–1994…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… 258 years. Rivonia, the IDAF’s second major challenge On 11 July 1963, seven men were arrested at Liliesleaf Farm in … of Solidarity with South African…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… and was an ANC sympathizer. The three groups left on 9,11 and 13 December. The first group, led by Tshweni, headed … they called for reinforcements from…
The Detention Weapon
… in Detention (March 1983) Deaths in Detention (August 1990) DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL HRC, November 1988 1. History … produced a rich crop of detentions, as…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923 Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, … Secretariat of the International Communist…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… the country's leading party following independence in 1990. SWAPO, led by one of its co-founders Sam Nujoma, began …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… period, located exclusively in the past (ie. roughly 1960s-1990), hides and depoliticises historical processes of … artist with ANC in various frontline…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… is issued for guidance in future stances to be taken. 11 February, In a ‘Declaration of Commitment’ the Bishops’ … one month, pending investigation of…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… acted according to the will of God. However, due to the 1990 moratorium on capital punishment, Strydom escaped the … “The Smiling Killer. The White Wolf”, My…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… 1970, 1986 and 1995; the SAUK Prize for African TV dramas 1990; the Stals Prize for Cultural History 1997; and the …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… government from 1988 - 89, but restrictions were lifted in 1990 as part of the move towards multi-racial government. …
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… was withdrawn and she was not allowed travel to until 1990. In 1988 she was charged and convicted for obstructing a …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was unanimously elected as the treasurer for the …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
Born in 1945 in the North West Cape, Boesak developed deep interests in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 he became a sexton Dutch…
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… A number of provisional governments followed, but by 1990, a new constitution had been adopted and the charismatic …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… the Australian Human Rights Award. After his release in 1990, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize, and was elected …