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EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… in the head with a brick and then beaten and stabbed to death. Amy was 26 years old at the time of her murder. Read …
EventWorld War I begins
… to the secret armed organisation known as Unification of Death (also the Black Hand). The motivation behind the …
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of Cetshwayo in Eshowe in 1884, the last of the …
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… of the South Africa, a position he held until his death in August 1978. Reference: Christoph Marx, (1998), …
EventJoe Slovo dies
… government housing could be provided. At the time of his death comrades and critics said that he was well on the way …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Bongco, the Border regional commander who was sentenced to death in August 1963 and Vuyisile Mini in October 1964. In …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
PlaceMqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
… in grooming the young Nelson Mandela after the death of his father. "Mqhekezweni was a mission station of … in grooming the young Nelson Mandela after the…
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 …
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,…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… action which is unprecedented in the history of the public bodies such as local councils, general councils, Native … labour, and in spite of its acceptance…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… and exhibited work by artists such as Badsha, Paul Sibisi (1948-) and Timol. This venture, however, did not survive … reports about the deaths of political…
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 …