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EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to the…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… when Rhodesian police opened fire on a rioting crowd on the outskirts of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now known as … 1965 whites in Southern Rhodesia, led…
PlaceBeestekraal, North West
… Station and Post Office, North of Brits. It was given the name in 1837 by the Voortrekkers under Andries Potgieter because here they came upon a number of …
ArchiveDokumente van belang
… List of documents found by the South African Police at Plot No 9, Travallyn, in the district of Krugersdorp on 8 July 1963 and on "Liliiesleaf" Farm in…
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
… The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house … with a number of Victorian architectural details and is the only building of its kind in the…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
… west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height of the struggle against apartheid, with political…
Rally to commemorate Joseph Sithole’s funeral
… On 23 September 1984 the apartheid regime banned the funeral of the late Joseph Sithole. Nonetheless, activists in the …
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
… a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the police chief and some radical intellectuals. Selassie was in Brazil on a…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… In January, Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). His…
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… In an effort to solve the 'Uitlander' grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) (South African … for…
Place'Angra das Vaccas', Mossel Bay
… Inlet on the Coast of the Indian Ocean, South-West of Mossel Bay. Old name for … Caerden. Portuguese for 'bay of cows', thus named after the cows the…
PlaceAddington, Township of Durban
… Township in Durban, North of the Point and West of the Beachfront. It was laid out by the Natal Government and gives its name to the renowned, … Township in…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter … 37/1963 and charged with…
EventGraça Machel is born
… reconciliation in her country she became Chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique. The organization placed orphans in village homes…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… Station Johannesburg. Pamphlets were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… At the end of a lengthy trial in the Supreme Court in Pretoria, four Indian leaders are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa’s northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
… complex constituting an early warning system, and that the entire coastline was to be covered by the Decca navigational system costing $8.4m The statement by…
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… that next week's general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an insurrection, but the peaceful removal of President F W De…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… The SASOL petrol plant in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, went … or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the lives of six…
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
… of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the party's second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The ANC came…
PlaceCoerney, Port Elizabeth
… and Railway station 64 km North of Port Elizabeth, on the route to Rosmead, situated in the Sundays River Valley in Sarah Bartman District Municipality and…
PlaceCyphergat Station
… The village of Cyphergat was the headquarters of the Cyphergat Coal Mining Co (Ltd). The railway line linking Sterkstroom to Stormberg Junction …
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
… Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), the objective of World Press Freedom Day is “to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the…
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
… They were still asking for a continued independence of the Boer republics. This happened towards the end of the Anglo-Boer War II which broke out in October…
EventInternational Day of Families.
… The International Day of Families was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day to … day is celebrated on 15 May every year.It…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… speeches of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all … man with sufficient political…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto … outside his home in Gaborone. He was due…
Steve Biko National Conference 2014
… in One Azania a Myth? Prof Saths Cooper President of the IUPsyS and VP of the International Social Sciences Council The need for a humane and ethical guiding…