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Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a very … still smarting under the epithet of heathen and refused to join the other women for the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Shimmer Chinodya; Nhamiwa's Magic Stick, Maria Munsaka; The Jungle Peacemaker, Blessing Museki; The Story of how the … Natal: Ari Sitas, Pearl Jean Gorrie,…
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… and self-made millionaire, former president of the SA Rugby Football Union and politician, was born in Britstown, Cape Province. He ventured into politics…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town; and the Institute for Advanced…
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… The 26-year-old Tanzanian, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a prime suspect in the bombing of two United States of American embassies in … pressed against him in New…
EventUDF is launched
… The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, … at Rocklands Community Centre in Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town on 20 August 1983. Its inception was…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA CAPE TOWN CITY HALL 10 FEBRUARY 2022 Speaker of the National … children still have to brave…
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Hundreds of Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest against new pass laws. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a…
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… Reed (63), international sailing legend and one of the most popular skippers in single-handed racing around the world, died at his home in Gordon's Bay, Cape…
EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… Born in Cape Town, Steven Gray is one of South Africa’s most prolific … in English from Cambridge University, a M. Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… The Prime Minister, Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have succeeded in … A. ‘Can…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising,…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Contents Discovering Seme - Tim Couzens The Early Years - Richard Rive The Mount Hermon School File … the scope of its programme to include several other…
PlaceVictoria Tower, Uitenhage
… from a settlement with a typical Dutch Layout popular in the Cape Colony at the time of the founding of Uitenhage - of broad streets, …
EventReverend David Russell sentenced for defying his banning order
… Religious leaders were among the foremost and vocal opponents of the Apartheid regime. Acting out of conscience and under the … This was the case with the…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… The Industrial and Commercial Union later renamed the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) was founded … Commercial Union made its first powerful…
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… The government withdrew its plan to place a limit on the number of black students admitted to white universities, … South African College which became the…
EventNP holds federal congress
… Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National Unity, the National Party held its federal congress (1 - 3…
EventPresident Barack Obama visits South Africa
… visit to South Africa since he was elected President of the United States of America. He and his family visited Cape Town, where they spent time at Robben…
The Legal Veneer
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman … the deposit requirements of Section 15 forced an…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… The Prisoners, Gerard Sekota. Sex and Sedition. The South African Police, Harry Bloom. Cartoon, David Marais. … Picardie. High Fence, Michael Fisher. Tennant…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pioneer aviatrix
… by reaching a height of 18, 000 ft. (m). She was also the first woman to fly across the Irish Sea. Her most famous achievement was a solo flight from London…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… and chief architect of apartheid was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Willem Johannes Verwoerd and his wife, Anje Strik. Driven by a strong sympathy…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as Transvaal … Hester, with about 1 000 Republican…
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela 's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker…
EventSA joins World War II
… After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, SA Prime … parliament, proclaiming South Africa's neutrality during the war. Hertzog's attempt was…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply from a …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria , took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba) died in Lovedale, Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in Xhosa literature…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape burghers against the incumbent Governor W. A…