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EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan following years of colonial rule. The tale of these two countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th century. In…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… South African anti-apartheid journalist and former editor of The World newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died on his fiftieth … heart attack and falling into a coma…
EventNaledi High School is founded
… Naledi High School, the site where historic anti-Bantu Education student … arrived at Naledi High School and attempted to arrest the leader of the local…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… farm in Piketberg, Western Cape. In 1942 he enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch where he became the member of the Student Representative Council (SRC)…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… The reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol on Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of his death in October 1971 - John Vorster…
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Town some 130 km North-East of Durban, near Gingindlovu. Where the first sugar factory in Zululand was established in 1908 … by Sir J.L. Hulett . Roughly an…
PlaceMohodi
… The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now … Forced…
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… to release any document that would implicate him in the Information Affair. He emphasized that the question was not whether state money had been made … money…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected. This emerged as he was cross-questioned … Aids educators. More than 5m South…
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… As part of realising ANC stalwart Comrade Nelson Mandela`s dream and … of his organisation - taken as far back as 1942 - to grow the ANC membership to one…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who defended political…
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… was born at Tala District. al-Sadat was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Cairo . During the 1952 revolution which saw the end of British rule in …
East Cape Update
… Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a reliable index of in-depth information and analysis of the Eastern Cape region. This region had a rich history of…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … task, but it has been an invaluable experience for both of us. And we have been assisted by and…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… arrived at Naledi High School and attempted to arrest the leader of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement … Anon, (n.d.), ‘The Youth…
Christmas and New Year Message by O. R. Tambo, Distributed Illegally in South Africa, December 1973
… Brothers and Sisters! I send you warm greetings from the African National Congress on the occasion of Christmas and New Year. Let us make the festive season…
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… 1974. This delightful Sir Herbert Baker church is near the South West corner of Boksburg lake. Replacing an earlier wood and iron … Provincial Heritage Site…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… assassinated and his body was severely mutilated in an act of barbaric brutality on 19 November 1981. His murderers used … throat and cut off his ears. They…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… in Albania and at a young age felt compelled to care for the sick and poor. When she was eighteen years old, she left home and joined the Loreto sisters, an…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… civilian convoy was attacked by guerrillas from the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a Saturday on the main road, 32 …
ArchiveFinal Schlebusch report on NUSAS
… General circular from the president of the National Union of South African Students, speculating on …
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and…
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The liberation movements had increased … Further…
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… studios and exhibition space in Woodstock , and is one of the few active non-commercial spaces in Cape Town . The Triangle Arts Trust, which was founded in…
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… Chief among the factors that led to the adoption of a new constitution in Rhodesia on the 30 … ,[Accessed: 20 December 2013]| Project Advisor, (2005) THE…
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… The Constitutional Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw …
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
… Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the University of Cape Town. The …
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… to Saudi Arabia. Amin began his career as a cook in the King's African Rifles and British Colonial Army in Uganda … campaigns in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… The announcement by President F. W. de Klerk in parliament … Mandela would be released from prison, unconditionally the next day, took many people by…