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EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009 as part of what was known as The Unity …
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… aged 21, Shaun Magmoed, aged 15, Michael Miranda, aged 11 and injuring several others. An inquest was launched in …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… Trust Fund to aid political prisoners and families. On 18 August 1977, he was arrested on his way home from a … He was first taken to Port Elizabeth prison…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… made at the Cape Town City Hall was totally eclipsed on 11 February 1990, when a newly-released Nelson Mandela stood …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… its peak strength it had around 23 000 members. More than 12 000 South African servicemen fought in World War One, and … Cape Corps faced Turkish forces…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… the Dutch and local Khoi erupt at the Cape. 1657 The first 12 free burghers settle along the Liesbeeck River in the Cape …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… still faced re-indictment. Speaking later, on May 12, 1959, about "the ordinary course of justice", the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the fall of apartheid, is born in Observatory, Cape Town. 12 June, Mossa ‘Mosie’ Molla , political activist, Treason … convention statement appears in the…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… South Africa, 1992 The raid into Lesotho, not only killed 12 Basotho but also 30 South Africans. Not all the 30 South … was an advert of AECI in the then…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… (South African Institute for Race Relations, 1960: 148). 18 December: the Supreme Court, Pretoria, ruled that the … (South African Institute for Race…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… that the Constitutional Assembly met all of its target dates. To deal effectively with the wide variety of issues in … 1995. The Volkstaat Council was set up…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… marital power. This was the position in terms of section 11(3) of the Repeal of the Black Administration Act (BAA), …
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… MS Ramaite, who at the time of its authorship—29 November 2006—was the convenor of the task team on TRC cases. As per …
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… Written by Prof Boet Dommisse, who sadly passed away on 12 July 2014, it records the History the Parish Church from …
PlaceFort Daspoortraand
… for the design of the fort, which was completed 12 November 1898 and cost £46 500. French and Italian …
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… parliament, and later passed away in 1942. Related: Grade 12 Classroom: Pact Government …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… the outskirts of the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977 and taken to apartheid security police … to Pretoria, where he was thrown into a cell…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 12 to 15 September 1998 to mark the 80th anniversary of the … of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6,…
EventKing George VI is born
… following his brother, Prince Edward's abdication on 12 December 1936. George who was the Duke of York and his …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… placed the British in a precarious position . About 12 000 British soldiers were faced with the defence of a …
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide. 2.11 The NGC recommends that the NEC must request the ANC-led … that South Africa has entered into…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… the workers into submission by violence or by starvation. 11. In conclusion, may we add that we make this appeal for …
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Liberation Committee, in Dar es Salaam, on November 12, 1968. At these talks the Party was represented by the … he concluded. Dissidents detained The meeting…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Liberation Committee, in Dar es Salaam, on November 12, 1968. At these talks the Party was represented by the … he concluded. Dissidents detained The meeting…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Afrikaner/Afrikaan. Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1999, p.38. 11. Quoted in Hassen Ebrahim, The Soul of a Nation ”” … Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press,…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… to walk with their wares from and to that place every day. 11.The fact that there are no sanitary arrangements there, no … population of any kind within…
PlaceMamre, Cape Town
From one of South Africa’s oldest Churches to the delight of wine tasting and delightful Cape cuisine, sample the best of everything on this Heritage drive. …
EventSA's first official commercial airline service is launched
Major Allister Mackintosh Miller secured a government subsidy and introduced the first official commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union…
PlaceMaputaland, Northern Part of KZN
Maputaland, a Region of KwaZulu Natal which stretches from the scenic splendour of iSimangaliso Wetland Park in St. Lucia in the South to South Africa's border…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
Harry Beltsazer Hart was born in Harrismith, Free State on 2 September 1905.[i] He attended the University of the Free State.[ii] Hart won six medals at the…