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PlaceKenilworth
… Kenilworth lies flanked by the Constantia Winelands and popular Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… Rights Petition with a million signatures Members of the African National Congress, I.C.U. Communist Party and other bodies espousing native interests filled…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… The legendary German general was known as the "Desert Fox for his brilliant military exploits in north Africa during the Second World War. He was born in…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… The Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was declared an … and came into force on 17…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… Renewal of Katorus In 1993 when I toured the Katorus area with Adrian Vlok I was in pain. The community was divided into two groups at war with each other. I…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ). The first rent paying Tenants were 47 families who arrived in November 1984. In an interview conducted…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the…
Secret Ballot
… ‘A Protest Theatre And Political Satire Farce’. It follows the exploits of 5 members of ‘The Brotherhood’. This here organization is one designed for the…
EventUDF is launched
… The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, … Cape Town on 20 August 1983. Its inception was inspired by the union of anti-apartheid…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… In 1994, the persistant tensions in Bophuthatswana homeland came to a head after the homeland's government decided against registering for the election and…
PlaceElizabeth le Roux Hostel, Bloemfontein
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 August 1975. The building has wood windows, old lamps, and border trellis work. The building is built in a victor The…
PlaceFree State Stadium
… The Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein was originally built for the Rugby World Cup of 1995. Then, it was revamped to host a number of matches for the 2010…
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… The two-day All-in African Conference - with 1,400 delegates … political bodies was hosted in Pietermaritzburg, Natal. The conference called for a national…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… Eerste River was a Railway Station of the Cape Town , Wellington and Docks Railway Co Ltd, and was … as a Village after 13 February 1862. This was when the…
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… The Democratic Party (DP), formed when factions from various opposition parties to the National Party (NP) merged, indicates that it represents a coalition…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… The multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… Party (IFP) leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi warns that the deals struck between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Government were "…
Foreword
… This report reproduces the papers presented at a Symposium held to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They sparked…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… When the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the…
PlaceDock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town
… Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town , states that: "The historical buildings and structures in the Cape Town Harbour area, known as the New Breakwater…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… Rationed away to French colonialists at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an outpost for the French…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South Africa we express to you our immense joy…
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… The Inaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue took place on 13 August 2010 in the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg. The event was in context with Women’s month. The…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… Thirty years after the first Treason trial in 1956, 16 members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were accused of treason in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… Three leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Archibald Gumede, Paul … treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… The African National Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to investigate detainee abuse…
EventSABC TV News Editor, Joe Thloloe resigns
… The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) was plunged into a crisis when the Editor-in-chief of television news, Joe Thloloe, … Sisulu. Thloloe's…
PlaceReitz
… An agricultural town in the Orange Free State province, Reitz is 51km from Bethlehem. … rainfall of about 686mm. In its earliest recorded history, the site…