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Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th
Sir de Villiers Graaff announces his retirement from politics, having been leader of the opposition from 1956 until the dissolu
The Labour Relations Amendment Act, amending the Labour Relations Act of 1956, comes into force. The Black trade union movement
Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.
The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
The Commission of Inquiry into the 1986 Unrest and Alleged Mismanagement in KwaNdebele, originally to be headed by Mr Justice W
Dr Bertha Stoneman, SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in
Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, 16 March 1945
President Mandela warns that local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal, scheduled for 29 May 1996, may have to be postponed a
Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet
Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged)
George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947.
Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
1825 Mzilikazi's arrival in Transvaal region. 1836 Andries Potgieter's arrives in the area north of the Vaal. 1837 Mzilikazi defeated by the…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…
BiographyHarry Moyaga
Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Madibane High School) in Western Township, Johannesburg in 1946. Nkobi went to further his education at Roma College …
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… repeatedly in the United Nations’ General Assembly from 1946. A consistent policy of all governments during this …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
… occupation of land in municipal Durban until 31 March 1946. The legislation also ended any possibility of any … for Land and Housing of the Indian People of…
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers'…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
Youth P SSRC 1 back to resources > "To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
Honourable Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly Members; Distinguished Guests. The brief seconds when the majority of Honourable Members quietly…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… the 40th anniversary of the great mine workers' strike of 1946 and the 100th anniversary of May Day - international …
BiographySaint Mokoena
He was born in Pietersburg, Limpopo. He is a painter and sculptor. He received his primary education at Thunzi Primary School where he started drawing, and at…
BiographyRobert Edward Jansen
Legendary Cape Town jazz musician, Robert Edward Jansen was born on 5 August 1949. The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South Africa’s most…
Judson Diza Kuzwayo
Judson Diza Kuzwayo was born August 25,1941 at Adams Mission in rural Natal and completed his junior certificate at the Loram Secondary School.He joined the…