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EventA Zairian aircraft crashes in Angola, killing 141 people.
… Electra plane owned by Zaire’s (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Trans Service Airlift Company, crashed shortly … and crew members perished. It is not clear…
PlaceHouses Brill and Andrew Murray, together with Tuck Shop, Grey-College, Bloemfontein
… These three buildings form the historical core of Grey College, the oldest school in the Free State. Brill House and Andrew …
EventANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go overseas under false names
… went overseas under false names and without passports. The two arrived in London, England and from there they went to Bucharest, Romania, where they attended…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common border. The relationship between the two countries in 1970s…
PlaceWinthrop Building, 8 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The U-plan structure with a thatched hip Roof dates from 1830 and is one of the oldest Houses in the Historical Centre of Wynberg. It …
EventDipuo Peters is born
… Premier of Northern Cape Province and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Women's League, Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, was born in …
EventKenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies
… Founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party (NCPC) and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National Union (KANU), Thomas …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… nuclear weapons in 1993, as it was initially claimed by the then State President F. W. de Klerk , and that the nuclear weapons programme had been far more…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… was born on 9 August 1922 in Moravia, near Piketberg in the Cape Province. Cussons matriculated at the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Meisieskool Pretoria before going on to…
ArchiveBlack women
… poster with purple border which includes text. Photograph of women dancing with raised arms looking triumphant. Notice … conference on women's struggle in…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes: Year report 1972
… The goals of the Black community programmes are to help the Black community become aware of its own identity, to help the Black community create a …
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of Fort … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) …
EventPresident Mandela warns disgruntled former Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants
… The newly elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela warned disgruntled former … O’Malley, P. ‘1994’ , from Nelson Mandela Centre of…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… The Prisoners, Gerard Sekota. Sex and Sedition. The South African Police, Harry Bloom. Cartoon, David Marais. … Tony O’Dowd. A Day to Remember, Christopher…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pioneer aviatrix
… altitude record for light aircraft, by reaching a height of 18, 000 ft. (m). She was also the first woman to fly across the Irish Sea. Her most famous…
Archie Gumede Inaugural Memorial Lecture Invitation
… Professor Ahmed C Bawa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Durban University of Technology and Mr Don Gumede, Founder of the Archie Gumede Foundation…
EventGill Marcus is born
… Gill Marcus, former Deputy Minister of Finance from 1996-1999, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and Manager of Spoornet, was … She has since…
ArchiveEducation, development and change in Africa
… The speech delivered by Murphree places emphasis on education and educating the people of Africa as part of the liberals function in ensuring a …
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… The government of Ghana imposed a total ban on the export of all Ghanaian produce to South Africa and South West … 2013)| O’Malley, P. ‘1961’ , from Nelson…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with … regard meant their citizens were going to suffer, as both of them were dependent on…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… Premier P.W. Botha became the first South African prime minister to visit Soweto. His visit included talks with the Soweto Community Council during which he…
ArchiveDear Mr State President
… Pamphlet issued by the President of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to the State President about the State …
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… was exposed to Western and traditional African music, both of which were important in shaping his musical style. When he moved to Johannesburg during the…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift, where he attended the Rorke's Drift Art School. After attending…
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
… for meat in Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Witnesses saw the four men lock the bucks in a camp before beating them to death with sticks … charged with…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against … (1999)…
ArchiveANC Perspective on models for South Africa's future constitutional dispensation
… Report of a Group A, Commission 5 on the African National Congress's … future Constitutional dispensation, prepared after the 1985 Kabwe Conference. Examines…
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was … Free State. He was a great…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Ndazana Nathaniel Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard … be allowed to return to South Africa. Nakasa was part of…