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Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… the relationship between urban poverty and politics in general and with the way in which race intrudes on this …
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers …
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… the names of 303 persons on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so-called 90 Day …
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… the defences of the Panzer Army Africa, under command of General Erwin Rommel. Success in the battle turned the tide …
EventThe official launch of the SABC
… In 1934, General James Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog, prime minister of …
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… In 1980 he became minister of Justice until the 1994 general elections. Coetsee was a member of the National Party …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… independence he rapidly rose to the post of a junior general in the army. Thereafter he was one of the main …
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… president of COSATU, Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi, assistant general secretary and Donsie Khumalo, regional secretary. In …
EventCoup attempt on S Doe’s government in Liberia
… A coup attempt headed by Brigadier-General Thomas Quiwonkpa, a faction of the Liberian military …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… President Woodrow Wilson of the United States and General J.C. Smuts of South Africa. Smuts gave substance to …
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… had to hold its own in the advance of commerce and the general progress in South Africa. The legislative council of …
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… South West Africa (now Namibia) started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of …
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
… (ZAR) or the Transvaal Republic, faced a full attack by General Sir Redvers Buller's Natal Field Army (also known as …
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… massacre on 21 March were dropped by the Acting Attorney-General for the Transvaal, Mr. P.S. Claasen. According to …
EventSouth Africa begins occupation of South-West Africa
… the South African government, under the leadership of General Louis Botha , put an offer to Britain to invade the …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… the Great conquers Egypt. He occupies Egypt and his general, Ptolemy, becomes king and finds a dynasty. During … Fatimid in Egypt, leading to the rise of a…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… on Monday. In a statement issued yesterday, they said. General Smuts, by attitude, encouraged racial antagonism to … campaign against Indian traders. They…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… killed, the leader of the Nigerian military government, General Yakubu Gowon said that his troops were 'behaving …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… as well as a post-mortem report submitted to the Attorney General of the Transvaal, signed by Professor Johan Loubser, …
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… South Africa free of charge. After that Sir William Hoy, General Manager of South African Railways, was talked into … April 1923 by H.R.H. Prince Arthur of…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… (1899 – 1902). The highlight was the surrender of the Boer general Piet Cronje to Lord Roberts at Paardeberg. As one of … were Len Tau and John Mashiani. …
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… During an interview with Cape Times Police Commissioner General J.P. Gous, said that “it is almost certain Whites are …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… On 6 August 1960, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, asked the UN Security Council …
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… the Indian people into militant passive resistance against General Smuts's racist laws. He struggled relentlessly for …
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland and Governor-General of South Africa dates back to 1931 when the posts …
EventSA joins World War II
… rejected by 80 votes to 67. After the refusal of Governor-General Sir Patrick Duncan to dissolve the parliament, …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death
… as well as a post-mortem report submitted to the Attorney General of the Transvaal, signed by Professor Johan Loubser, …
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… some of the cattle recovered from Chief Sekonyela. The general opinion is that Dingane did not wish to yield the …
EventEpainette Mbeki receives the Order of the Baobab
… References: http://www.sabcnews.co.za/south_africa/general/0,2172,125894,00.html …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… The General Assembly decided that 20 June would be celebrated as …