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SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL EVENTS, MOVEMENTS, LEGISLATION & LAND WARS

Photography by Alf Kumalo © Baileys Archives

11 July 1963 - Security police raid the ANC ‘safe-house’ at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia.

Security police raided the African National Congress (ANC) ‘safe-house' at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg. The farm was privately owned by Arthur Goldreich, but bought with money of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Virtually the whole leadership of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), armed wing of the ANC, were arrested, namely Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Lionel Bernstein and Bob Hepple. e

We have updated our feature titled: The Rivonia Trial & Lilliesleaf Farm

1400s-1800s Colonisation & Land Supremacy
European Colonisation of South Africa 1488-1700s
South African Treks & Land conflicts: A history starting in the 1600s

King Shaka ka Senzangakhona Zulu
1820-1828

The Great Trek 1835-1846
Matabele Wars 1836-1896
The Battle of Blood River 1838
The Pedi & the Anglo-Pedi War 1876-1879
The First & Second Anglo-Boer Wars: 1880-1902
The 1900's Apartheid, Repression & the Liberation Struggle
The Liberation Struggle: Resistance against Apartheid & repression: The 1920s
The Liberation Struggle: Resistance against Apartheid & repression: The 1930s
The Liberation Struggle: Resistance against Apartheid & repression: The 1940s
The Liberation Struggle: Resistance against Apartheid & repression: The 1950s
The Liberation Struggle: Resistance against Apartheid & repression: The 1960s
 
1900's in focus: Detailed features
The history of Passive Resistance in South Africa 1906-1989
The formation of the Union of South Africa 1910
The Bhambada Rebellion 1906
The Bulhoek Massacre 1924
A land dispossession history: forced removals
Garveyism: Marcus Garvey's philosophy on the Unity of Black people early 1900s
South African Labour History pre 1925-2005
The Rand Rebellion of 1922
The African miners' strike of 1946
Bizana & the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
The Defiance Campaign 1952
The Freedom Charter 1955
The Treason Trial 1956
Women's Struggle in South Africa 1956
The Rivonia Trial & Lilliesleaf farm 1963-64
From the Union to the South African Republic 1900-1961
Black Consciousness & Steve Biko 1960-1977
The Sharpeville Massacre
1960
Battles that shaped our history: The battle of Cuito Carnavale 1988
The Soweto Youth Riots June 1976
Post 1994, The reconciliation process & the new deomocratic South Africa
The Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1996
The South African Constitution
1996

 

 
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