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EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… Framatome. This came after the initial consortium led by General Electric, that won the contract, had to withdraw due …
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… (then) Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal. Chief Luthuli was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 …
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… of the Barolong boo Ratshidi. He was elected treasurer-general of the African National Congress and was served with …
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… although most workers on the Reef went to work. The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly rejected the municipal …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… Police arrested United Democratic Front national secretary-general Mohammed Valli Moosa and its acting publicity …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… of Pretoria. The Hertzog prize is named in honour of General J.B.M. Hertzog, former premier of the Union of South …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… A concession solution was attained between Gandhi and General Smuts, the Colonial Secretary at the time. It was …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… collective British, Canadian, and Australian force, led by General Carrington, was bound for Marandellas to bring the …
EventJameson Raid starts
… to stop him. He was proven wrong and had to surrender to General Cronje on 2 January 1896, leaving seventeen of his …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… nephew of Chief Langalibalele Dube, was elected Treasurer-General in the first inaugural meeting of the SANNC in 1912. …
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… of the country by South Africa started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of …
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… in 1602 and was granted a 21 year monopoly by the States-General of the Netherlands to carry out colonial activities …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… bush. Howard College was opened in 1931 by the Governor General of South Africa, the Earl of Clarendon. The Memorial …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… meeting decides to send deputation to Prime Minister General Botha to urge acceptance of compromise proposal. General Botha declines to meet deputation. July…
PlaceNamibia
… troops defeated them. The new German commander-in-chief, General Lothar von Trotha, ordered the extermination of all … African Rebellion. With the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… the Avalon Theatre, Durban In 1936 Sir Raza Ali, the Agent-General for India in the Union, made public his intention of … public. Some silly person…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… paid leave and other improvements; failing which a general strike would be their last resort. In June CNETU … decided to fulfil its pledge and called a…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… home on 1st of May as undermining their own plan to for a general strike on 1st May and actively set about disrupting … in the period of negotiation. Chris…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… improved minds and of various vocations. Among them were General Smuts, Sir Evelyn Baring, Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, and Mr. … Africa than any other man in the…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… movements in the continent and the African peoples in general. The ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement in … of Africa, published in April 1906,…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… Zuma and the SPLM delegation was led by its Secretary-General, Comrade Pagan Amum. 2005: Comrade Collins Chabane, … to advance the ANCs work in Sudan. 2010…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and General Moussa Traoré received 99% of the votes. His efforts … presidential election against scant…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… were formed. The strike culminated in a partial general strike and an armed uprising. Police stations were … military. Thousands of workers were flung into…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… They included: Patrick Duncan, son of a former Governor-General; Miss Bettie du Toit, an Afrikaner trade union … to dissociate from the ANC. He was elected…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… , were among ANC students who were in Moscow. There was a general feeling that ASA students were different from MK …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… 1989/1990 had far-reaching consequences for the world in general. Much of the literature during this period focussed …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… the Surti Mosque in Fordsburg to protest against it July, General Smuts reneges on the promise to repeal the Asiatic …
References and links: Local History
… www.pretoria.co.za/Tourism/museums.asp www.pta.co.za/general/museums.htm …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… many as a breakthrough. It proposes that Codesa decide on general constitutional principles and agree to an interim …