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The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its
Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org
The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission
In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The
The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the
Document 72 - “A landmark in South Africa’s History: The Sixth National Conference of the South African Communist Party”, International Bulletin, no. 4, December 1962
APDUSA Views - Issue No 69: Shameless Opportunism - Allows Jack Straw to get Away with the Murder of Innocent Iraqis, 15 May 2003
President Mandela vows ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in finding the truth behind the air crash ten years before that killed Moza
United Nations (UN) forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking north
The UN Security Council bans sales of arms and fuel to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) because
The Foreign Minister of France said at a press conference in Nairobi that no new contract for arms sales to South Africa could
The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un
The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan
A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy
Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk
Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of UN personnel they are believed to be
Prince James Mahlangu is elected as new chief minister of KwaNdebele after a motion of no confidence in Mr Mabena was passed in
UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
World Food Program warns the UN Security Council that a record 38 million people were at risk of starvation in Africa. The sout
The search for survivors from the Helderberg SAA 747 crash into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius is called off. No survivors have
Robert Koch, German scientist who visited SA to investigate the causes of rinderpest, is born in Germany. He was awarded the No
BiographyEla Gandhi
Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal. Indians, Coloured, Whites and Africans lived here in harmony although…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
Derrick Vusimusi Nxumalo was born in 1962 in Dumisa, Natal. Nxumalo passed Standard VIII at Phindavela High School. He received no formal art training. He…