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EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Political activist, teacher and lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League (ANCYL) and its … was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape. Under Mda's…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
… years as a general interest light entertainment magazine. The magazine featured illustrations, social commentary and jokes produced by some of the best…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… celebrated soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be safe from the political…
EventPhumizile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as SA Deputy President
… Former Minister of Minerals and Energy, Phumizile Mlambo - Ngcuka was … with Schabir Shaik. Shaik had been found guilty by the Durban High Court and the…
EventPresident Hosni Mubarak collapses
… live on television in Cairo. After forty-five minutes of medical attention, Mubarak returned to parliament. … applauded him as he continued with his speech…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The visit, from 11 to 13 August, marked continuing good …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town, leading a delegation of government officials and business people on a two day official visit. This was the first ever…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his second wife Ruth Gerhardt, … O’Malley P. ‘1983’ , from Nelson…
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker
… or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner Devout domesticity? A …
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 … Customs who owned it until 1842. In 1840 it was leased by the government as…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… to discuss emergency measures against South Africa and the problems its membership poses, the governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo American and the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed an agreement … entertainment, media, casino, exhibitions…
EventAfrica Malaria Day
… Malaria Day is observed annually on 25 April. The day was officially instituted by the World Health Assembly in May 2007. Malaria Day was first … World…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the…
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 …
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
… An African National Congress (ANC) delegation of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the party's second major submission to the Truth and…
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 …
ArchiveCrisis News
… Crisis News, published by the Western Province Council of Churches, Cape Town, "attempts to tell the truth of what is happening in our country", particularly…
EventPik Botha is born
… Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha , Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of President F.W. de Klerk was born in … Rustenburg, Transvaal (now North West…
ArchiveBoycott - FOSATU and other unions put their muscle behind a country-wide consumer boycott
… FOSATU together with the Food and Canning Workers Union, the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union, the General … Town Municipal Workers Association…
ArchiveNational Indian Council another trap
… At the outset, APDUSA mentions how it warned its people of the dangers of accepting the formation of police reserves and …
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… [We have been given the following document, together with an introductory … account. When this was received there was no news of an impending release,…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… Location: back to this day in history search archive During the summit conference organised by non-racial labour unions … Union delegates discussed South…
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announced that the National Party was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. This came after the…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… Happy Joyce Mashamba passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of which have not yet been disclosed to the … “Limpopo on…
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
… The police opened fire on a crowd of Sebokeng township residents who sought to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party (NP). The incident…
PlaceJonkershoek
… This Nature Reserve is home to the majestic Jonkershoek Mountains and parts of the Jonkershoek valley, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site! …
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , wife of imprisoned ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, was banished to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State…