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EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a decision was taken to ……
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… contributing over 50 percent of government revenue. The nationalisation of Zambian copper mines was in line with … based on socialist principles. This policy…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent mission of Madagascar …
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was an important physician at the time, and contributed to research in the field of parasitology, and the founder of tropical…
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… Representatives of the diamond industry and government, from more than thirty … of rough diamonds, in an unprecedented effort to weed out the 'Black market'…
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) that it had recorded 266 political killings in…
Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… A dissertation presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Department of Politics. Abstract:…
ArchiveWhere do we stand?: APDUSA and a nation free of race hatred and oppression
… APDUSA shows concern in how the Herrenvolk and the Broederbond, and particularly in the Western province, attempts to split-up the Non-Whites …
EventBilateral talks to continue
… A consensus was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the …
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White areas. The…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… In a joint declaration the leaders of the United Party (UP), Sir de Villiers Graaff and the Democratic Party (DP), Theo Gerdener, expressed their … his…
PlaceObservatory
… suburb of Cape Town , and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was established there in 1821. It's an arty district locally known as ' Obs '…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backhouse visited it in March 1839 and…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… who was transported in 1810 from South Africa to Europe. The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children (SBCWC) was opened in 1999 in response to the…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four sisters. My … Henry Josephs, worked at a butcher…
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
… The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by the authors says that the list of names…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb is the Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams characterises the …
Giyani, Polokwane
… 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in the western…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights … on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… A Village in the Albany District, some 42 km West of Grahamstown. Named after Alice Slessor, wife of the engineer who constructed the railway. Its Xhosa…
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… Aircraft was shot to ground by Ethiopian military forces. The incident claimed the life of the two occupants of the Jet. The plane was en route from …
PlaceOns Huisie, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town
… The cottage was, for many years, the property of the Stadler family, and is a typical example of the type of …
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… On 9 July 1915 the Imperial German Forces officially surrendered to General Louis Botha’s troops at the Khorab Memorial. This followed the outbreak of the…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… The sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn … most vicious civil wars. These…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… acquisition programme in Zimbabwe. Through this programme the government was not going to compensate the predominantly White commercial farmers for the land…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… The Bambatha Rebellion took place near Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal. The first signs of discontent started at the end of 1905, when government introduced a new …
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… Every time I land at Durban Airport, I am haunted by the memory of Fatima Meer – my dearest friend, sister and … No words seem eloquent enough to describe…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… mark World AIDS Day. As South Africans, we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support for the Partnership Against AIDS campaign…
International Council for Traditional Music
… Call for Proposals: 2nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics (Updated on 29 June 2017) The International Council for Traditional Music Study…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… in Langa during 1976. He was involved in protests on the ground, as well as helping to organise collaborative … his community in Langa. He is also an…