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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… on the Natives' Representative Council (NRC) following the death of Dr John Dube. Dr Xuma attends the first session of … 13 December, The Transvaal Indian…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… at the International Women's Day Meeting in Johannesburg. 1948 ANC Women's League is formed, with treason trialist … responsible for human development. 2001…
III - Black Consciousness
… they were prepared to fight with people of all races. In 1948 the ANC Youth League Manifesto described African … administered (what better witness to that…
EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
… died on 4 October 1974. In the two years prior to his death, he had produced 5 novels and 4 volumes of poetry. …
EventCardoso's murderers convicted in Mozambique
… and extradited to Mozambique. Anibalzinho, who led the death squad, was tried in absentia while he was still on the …
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… Birches, only came forward to claim relation after Emery’s death. [iii] Emery’s father is still unknown. The prohibition … showing it was sent a few months…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… suffered from another period of depression following the death of her baby girl who died a few hours after birth, … the treatment of women by religion…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… master-mind behind Hani's assassination, are sentenced to death in the Rand Sumpreme Court by Judge CF Eloff. The ANC oppose the death penalty and as a…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… gift to all people of South Africa a few years before his death in April, 1968. His foresight and generous spirit … This terminus can be marked loosely by an…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… example, chiefs lost their authority to sentence anyone to death. Crimes requiring a death penalty were given to the magistrate who applied …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… as police fired on unarmed protesters resulting in the death of 69 people and injury of 180. Subsequent to protest … rebellion were killed and 14 other were…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… Diamond mine, after a fellow-worker is kicked to death by a White overseer. White employees join in brutally … for illicit liquor. They were stoned and…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… circulation of blood to and from the brain, thus causing death by apoplexy. Appearance of body: A fairly … 1884 by hanging himself. (b) I herewith enclose…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… the black oppressed and the white oppressor; and even unto death, black cemeteries and white cemeteries - always and … murderous machine. This one born dead,…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… path pursued by the white minority has brought suffering, death and destruction to the people of South Africa, and to … served only to harden our resolve…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… We have also been criticised for neglecting prisoners on death row. There are no people in this country who have been as concerned with the welfare of our…
14. Suicide among indentured
… circulation of blood to and from the brain, thus causing death by apoplexy. Appearance of body: A fairly … 1884 by hanging himself. (b) I herewith enclose…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… up Special Criminal Courts; eighteen men were sentenced to death and scores were sent to prison for terms ranging from two to ten years. Three of those…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… extremely poor and an 80% black majority. In 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1949, the Congress Youth League had formulated four …
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
… as political detainees and prisoners, including those on death row. I refer also to the thousands of our people who … population, massive unemployment,…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… escorting scabs to the mine. A further six were crushed to death in the panic that followed. The events at the Sub-Nigel … a month before the National Party…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… gunshot meant for the leaders of the CPSA resulted in the death of one person. Subsequent to the meeting, a general …
Hinduism
… with God so that they can escape the cycle of life and death in this world. The Bhagavad Gita includes three ways to …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… was for decades regarded by the trekboers as a place of death for cattle and people alike, to be entered only in …
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… angry, some demanding the government to bring back the death penalty. The National Assembly speaker, Thandi Modise …
EventHip-hop star Jabulani Tsambo known as HHP dies
… known as HHP, passed away at the age of 38. Details of his death were not clear, but reports suggested that it was a … 23 July 2019]. Levitt, J., (2018). HHP…
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… "Sabotage" Act, to challenge segregation is to risk the death penalty. Under such conditions, it is not too much to …
Statement by Oliver Tambo with Other ANC leaders visiting Sweden, 02 February 1990
… announced by F.W. de Klerk such as the suspension of the death sentence, the release of some political prisoners, the …
Statement by O. R. Tambo with other ANC Leaders Visiting Sweden, 2 February 1990
… announced by F.W. de Klerk such as the suspension of the death sentence, the release of some political prisoners, the …
PlaceMilnerton
… Graaf and used by his family as a seaside home until his death in 1931. Milnerton’s beach is well known for its …