20 June World Refugee Day and the Immigration Crisis in South Africa World Refugee Day is an international observance held annually on 20 June to honour the courage, strength and…
The Draconian 1913 Native Land Act is Passed On 19 June 1913, the Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land…
The Aftermath of the Soweto June 16 Uprisings On 17 June 1976, the day after the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprisings, the revolts rapidly escalated, spreading beyond Soweto to other…
Commander Lizo Bright Ngqungwana of the Western Cape Forty years ago, at around 02:00 in the morning of 23 April 1986, while Lizo Bright Ngqungwana was asleep in a three-roomed…
Forty Years of the Kabwe Conference: Year of the Charter (Portions of the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference, which was presented by the…
National Insurrection Spreads to Cape Town On 28 August 1985, at around 09:00 in the morning, close to 3 000 youthful protesters marched down Klipfontein Road in Gugulethu, in the…
The Western Cape’s Intrepid Ashley Kriel Unit On 23 July 1989, twenty-three-year-old Coline Williams and twenty-year-old Robert Anthony Basil “Robbie” Waterwitch, of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK’s) Ashley Kriel Unit, often…
Chris Hani’s Address and MK Confrontation in the Western Cape On 7 July 1990, at approximately 01:20 in the morning, “Wiseman” was driving a light blue Toyota Corolla from Khayelitsha…
The Largest Group of MK Recruits Arrested in the Early 1960s On the morning of 10 June 1963, at approximately 06:00, when apartheid Police Sergeant Ferreira arrived at the Rustenburg…
The Sudden Arrest of the Western Cape “Mobile Unit” In the morning of 16 May 1987, apartheid Security Branch Captain William Liebenberg produced a photo of Pieter Jacobs during his…