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EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… books, most of them depicting the plight of black people under apartheid. He was arrested several times as an …
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. It was proclaimed a British …
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. The brothers took turns …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… political violence – more than half killed by the police. Under the provisions of the Emergency, organisations could be …
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… He is currently captain of the Zambian national team. Under his leadership, this team won the Africa Cup of Nations …
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… who became the National Minister of Arts and Culture under President Thabo Mbeki’s administration, was born in B …
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… nuclear research and development project was initiated under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Board (AEB). In 1990 …
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… known as Transvaal Republic), was dynamited by its crew under Lieutenant H Du Toit before falling into British hands …
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… Alexander was released from prison, but banned and placed under house arrest for five years. …
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… began deliberations on the situation in South Africa, under an agenda item entitled: "The situation arising out of …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… African billionaire Hotelier Solomon Kerznerfound himself under investigation for corruption in a case that began in …
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… of the Sunday Express. They were charged with protesting (under the Riotous Assemblies Act) and were released the next …
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… April 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… villas in the city. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. Cottam Grove …
PlaceZorgvliet, Sir George Grey Street, Oranjezicht
… features were added. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 20 February 1981. It appears …
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… retired politicians. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 24 November 1950. …
ArchiveFrank Talk
… ideology. "Frank Talk" was originally the pseudonym under which Steve Biko wrote several articles, later …
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… (SACP) and others. These liberation movements, banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act in April 1960, were …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… indicating that she had never heard of Soweto and was under the impression that Blacks and Whites lived communally. … everyone else in the Arts to boycott…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… with a deadly denialism parading as intellectual inquiry. Under his presidency, more than 5 million people were living … fired as Deputy President in 2005,…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… extreme poverty. Urban blacks in the townships also lived under appalling conditions and Coloured and Indian people … in the 1950s when women across the race…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… who would later become a health minister under Mbeki’s administration, Vera Gule, Petrus Sibande, … Mokaba had also sung the song in 1993, but the ANC under…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… friend of Bailey's from Oxford, was appointed editor, and under his leadership the magazine continued to grow and … Festival. Drum continues to be published…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… onslaught' had managed to suppress much unrest and had it under some measure of control. With leaders from the 1976 … created different houses, or sections,…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Morgam Moodliar and Sunny Venkarathnam are detained under the Terrorism Act . After a long period of solitary … the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). An executive…
Document 24 - E. R. Roux, Thesis on South Africa, presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 28 July 1928
… and peasants to carry through the national revolution under the slogan of a Native Republic or "national … monopolist capital comes into contact with people…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… has fluctuated between 100 and 600. This includes children under the age of 18 years, some as young as 14. • Records … Banning and restriction of persons…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… and was ultimately detained for these activities. Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act in 1954, Cissie … which was published after her death…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… were imprisoned in Benoni and in Durban respectively, under the War Measures Act for opposing race discrimination. … chosen racists laws. In 1945, the Natal…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… Union, who in spite of such recomÂmendation demonstrated under the leadership of the Party whilst Comrade Sachs went … conclusively the dishonesty of his…