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EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… Ms Pearl Tshabalala, a prominent businesswoman and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who had resisted moves to incorporate…
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… was educated at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama School. Flynn was a well respected actor in the South African…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… Mudaliar grew up in Johannesburg. She was named after the village her mother came from in India, Thillaiyadi. As … in South Africa, Valliammai became…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… The African National Congress (ANC) in Harare, Zimbabwe, agreed to "use its good offices" to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby into…
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… Bank (SA) announced its new name - First National Bank of Southern Africa (FNB) - a wholly South African owned and … Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays,…
PlaceAiab, Stream in Namibia
… Khoikhoi name of the Lewerivier is Aiab. The Khoikhoi language is a National language in Namibia, also … as Hottentots’. It is the most widespread language…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to University Principals and others
… General circular letter from the President and Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students discussing the …
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Following the institution of the Transitional Executive Council and Nelson Mandela's call … General Assembly to lift all sanctions with the exception of oil…
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
… World Tuberculosis day commemorates the day that Dr Robert Koch astonished the world by announcing that he had discovered the cause of Tuberculosis. Around…
PlaceVictorian Manor-house, 59 Musgrave Road, Durban
… The House was designed and built by the Architect William Street-Wilson who was responsible for … was completed in 1897 and latter passed into the…
PlaceRailway Station, Sannaspos, Bloemfontein
… The Station Building, situate on a protion of the Farm Klipkraal 117 in the District of Bloemfontein. …
ArchiveTried for treason
… Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition on the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 opening on 27th February 1996 at the Museum Africa, Johannesburg…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by African National Congress (ANC) members to…
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… chief, was found dead in his car parked near the Botanical Gardens in Pretoria, with a bullet wound to the head. Mdluli is rumoured to have told his lover,…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 June 1938. After the Jameson Raid in 1896, President Paul Kruger of the "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek" decided that…
PlaceGreenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… front. Greenmarket Square probably developed early on when the VoC brought vegetables from its adjoining garden to this … example and began to bring their…
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… as a marine and portrait painter. In 1848, he moved to the Eastern Cape , from where he took three journeys into the interior, one of which was past the…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… international campaign led by international bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity (now AU), Non-Align Movement, and non…
EventLesotho celebrates independence from Britain
… Lesotho is one of the smallest countries in the world, with just over 30 000 km2 of land. It has a population of approximately two million. …
EventPresent UN headquarters is opened
… The international peace keeping body, the United Nations (UN), which had replaced the League of Nations in 1945, opened its headquaters two years after … The…
ArchiveBlack Conciousness: an appraisal
… The article discusses whether the Black Conciousness Movement arose as a result of the influence of an ideology or as a reflection of the …
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Hundreds of Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town … against new pass laws. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Minister Balthazar Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to…
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… The president of the traditional leaders organisation CONTRALESA and African … Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… Bay. Dias was on an expedition to discover a sea route to the East round Africa. He gave the area the name Golfo de Santa Maria da Conceiçao. Dias … he…
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
… group chief executive Jimi Matthews furiously defended the public broadcaster, its chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, and conditions at the company…
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, became effective four…
EventThird Pan African Parliament session begins in Midrand
… The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) began at its temporary home in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. The session was…
ArchiveInkululeko - Freedom
… Typescript of a publication of the SACP entitled Inkululeko - Freedom. Headings: Lessons of the recent strikes; The struggle by the students and the need …
PlaceBloemfontein Orchid House
… Orchid House. © University of the Free State The Orchard House is one of the most modern nurseries of its …