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EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… He died in John Vorster Square police station just 12 days before the release of former president Nelson Mandela …
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… in this building, 64 years earlier (1915). On 11 March 1982 the Carmody Memorial Bursary fund was opened in memory …
PlaceLadysmith
… the government’s new decentralisation proposals of April 1982. The Ladysmith Chamber of Commerce and the Town Council …
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… Godi has enjoyed an outsized profile over the past 12 years. He is the only non-ANC MP chairing a parliamentary … interests of the Church”, and its logo…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… Congress (ANC) in 1959 in the prime of his youth. He was 18 years old at the time. When the ANC was banned in 1960, he … Siva Naidoo. Email to South African…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
Authoritarian: A system where people are expected to obey all authority and rules, even though some of these rules and regulations may be unfair and cause the…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… the influence of the minority governments to the south. [12] Despite its good intentions, Tazara never truly achieved … Journal of African Historical Studies…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… the influence of the minority governments to the south. [12] Despite its good intentions, Tazara never truly achieved … Journal of African Historical Studies…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
Claas Blanc and Rijkaert Jacobsz were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the…
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay. Meaning 'watering place of Saldanha', it was given in honour of Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded there…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an alternative anchorage when prevailing winds made Table Bay unsafe. However, successive Dutch…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… He immediately initiated plans for a new church and on 18 October 1872 the structure was consecrated and served as a …
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… of the North West Province (then North-West Transvaal). On 18 July 1926, while home on vacation in Johannesburg, he …
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… a Lingelethu West minibus to the depot at 04:00 on 18 October and ordered number plates to be put onto the …
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… On 18 May 1997, Laurent Kabila, at the head of a rebel army, …
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… Smith, Michell and the 90 odd workmen who had laid over 18,000 cubic feet of cut-masonry. The lighthouse was based on …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… Available at www.voortrekker-history.co.za [Accessed: 18 July 2011] Wallis, F., 2000. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse …
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… carried. The amendment of Mr. Kies was defeated by 35 to 12 votes. 3. (e) was referred back to the National Committee … and to obtain licences on an equal…
The death and injuries of South Africans in Nigeria, 16 September 2014
… the collapsed Synagogue Church of all Nations last Friday, 12 September 2014. We share the grief of families who lost …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… According to reports, the security for Mandela included 12 000 city police officers, 4 super-insulated bomb trucks, …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… The Pass Laws Chapter 11 - The Compound System Chapter 12 - The Wage Colour Bar - A System of Forced Labour Part 3 - …
EventThe HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire sink near Colombo
… Akagi, Soryu, and Hiryu. The HMS Cornwall was sunk within 12 minutes by nine bombs, while its sister ship, the …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… These are among the points outlined by P.W. Botha on 12 March 1968, the then Minister of Defence. History has …
EventNational Party wins general election
The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… In the local elections of October 1988, the CP won 12 of 20 council seats. At its’ first meeting, the new …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the Ciskei on 12 August 1988. The people of West Peelton were against the …
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… On 12 of February 2006, the Progressive Governance Network held …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… socialite, two years ago. The girl was only 12 years old when she carried out the murder. She was also …
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
Collen Chauke, South Africa's most wanted fugitive, was captured in Nelspruit. He was arrested at a roadblock in Nelspruit near South Africa's border with…
EventJameson Raid starts
Leander Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the Zuid…