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EventThirty people die in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Algeria
… A 5.7 magnitude earthquake devastated the Northern African country of Algeria on 29 October 1990. It claimed the lives of 30 people. This was a rather mild…
EventFirst aeroplane flight takes place
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in the world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under complete…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
… a Queenstown community leader and high profile member of the United Democratic Front,died in police custody. He was … to police reports he died of asthma on…
EventMarthinus van Schalkwyk is born
… Marthinus van Schalkwyk leader of the New National Party was born on 10 November 1959. He replaced FW de Klerk as leader of the National Party in 1997 and…
EventKimberley swimmer Karen Muir (12) sets new world record
… Karen Muir became the youngest official world record-holder in swimming history when she recorded 1min 8.7sec for the 110 yards backstroke at the Derby Baths…
EventJ.C. Smuts calls general election
… After losing the Wakkerstroom and Oudtshoorn by-elections in April, prime minister and leader of the South African Party (SAP), J.C. Smuts, decided to hold a…
PlaceDoringbaai, Cape West Coast
… Doringbaai is a picturesque little Town on the Cape West Coast near Strandfontein and Langebaan, about 300 km West of Cape Town. You can get to Doringbaai…
PlaceRuimzicht House, 10 Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
… This double-storey dwelling was built in the late 1890s and boasts of a number of fine Victorian architectural features, … front and side gables as well as…
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… originates from Lyttelton Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. The area was inhabited predominantly by Afrikaans speaking … 1964 it…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… The former African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng provincial … high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart attack in Kampala. He was on…
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to help find a solution to the political unrest in the country. Thousands of people turned out on the streets to greet President…
EventSpringboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
… was made at Ellis Park Stadium on 24 June 1995, where the South African Rugby team (famously known as the Springboks) beat New Zealand in a mouth watering…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… was born 20 February 1971. Van Der Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played in the 1995, 1999 … Retief D…
23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Two petitions were submitted to the Durban…
PlaceAmajuba, a Mountain in Natal
… Mountain 14 km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-Boer War. The name is derived from…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… Banyana midfielder Eudy Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had been raped, … This made Simelane’s…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
… This pamphlet aims to plead to those involved in the liberatory movement to consider carefully before taking the decision to vote or to boycott for their new…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's…
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… The Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law on the South African president and the president of the African …
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… Eleven people were killed in the township of eSikhawini in northern Natal by unknown killers armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… 20 October 1988 She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself … thin and tall. She never dreamed of…
EventPoqo members arrested
… Armed Poqo members were intercepted by the police while on their way to assassinate Chief Kaiser Matanzima. An armed clash between the police and Poqo…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… to stop Italian forces from reaching Tobruk and Benghazi. The operation was mounted during the Second World War which started in the early hours of 1…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 1 A Marvellous Life! Denis Goldberg, South Africa and the World Chapter 2 Denis Goldberg and the Modern Youth Society Chapter 3 The Life of a Freedom Fighter…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. History of cotton in the Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series…
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… six people were killed and more than a dozen injured at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved were South African…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Dr. Peter A.J. Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry into the Boipatong massacre…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown …