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ArchiveMeeting with Dr Jonas Savimbi: Pretoria, 12 April 1984
… Meeting between Dr Johas Savimbi and representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs to discuss general developments concerning Angola. The issue of…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 7 Belvedere Avenue, Oranjezicht
… The double-storey Structure was erected soon after the turn of the 20th Century, and is endowed with a number of …
EventBafana Bafana loses to Nigeria
… The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana, under mentorship of Coach Trott Moloto, lost 0-2 to Nigeria in the semi-final African Cup of Nations …
PlaceBlockhouse in Hekpoort, Krugersdorp
… The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of Major-General G Barton, who commanded British…
EventHeroic act by boer soldier Windvogel
… During the South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2), General Kemp … Brigadier-General Dixon at Vlakfontein and captured the field guns. Dixon launched a…
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
… through a checkpoint and exploded, killing people at the Living Faith Church in Bauchi, Nigeria. Mohammed Ladan, the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police,…
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
… On 27 September 2006, Boxing legend Dingaan Thobela 'The Rose of Soweto' arrived home only to be greeted by hijackers as he was about to enter his Kelvin…
EventKoeberg becomes operational
… The nuclear power station at Koeberg, the only commercial nuclear power station in Africa, became … license. Koeberg is situated at Duynefontein, 27km north…
EventSalman Rushdie’s visit is still on
… outcry against Salman Rushdie's public lecture from the Islamic Council of Southern Africa, the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian) announces that the …
Contact
… Contact, the official publication of the Liberal Party, was published monthly, in … political struggles not only in the southern region of Africa but in…
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… The South African Press Association (SAPA) was established as … in 1938 by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… countries, Zimbabwe had had a longer relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) military wing. South African covert forces were suspected of…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… Olivia Forsyth escaped from her guards and took refuge in the British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… writing. His first novel, Les soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence, 1970) was a stern criticism of the government of an independent CÁ´te d…
EventMugabe is refused accommodation by 2 SA hotels
… The Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of President …
EventThree IFP leaders resign
… leaders, Frank Mdlalose, national chairperson and premier of Kwazulu-Natal province, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General and Musi Myeni, leader in the Gauteng…
EventA statement is issued following talks between John Vorster and Ian Smith
… in Lusaka, Zambia and Salisbury, giving details of proposals agreed to after two days of talks between South … Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Prime Minister, Ian…
ArchiveNotes on meeting between Director-General and President Savimbi on 26 October 1988
… Meeting between the Director-General of Namibia and President Savimbi on the progress of the Namibian negotiations and the political …
ArchiveVerwoerd lets loose terror
… Circular by the All-African Convention and the Unity Movement regarding arrests of members of the All-African Convention and the Unity …
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… born in Harare, Zimbabwe on 22 July 1985. He played for the Mashonaland Club and for Vainona High School in his home … moving on to Dallas Athletic Rugby…
ArchiveFundacion Augusto C. Sandino. FACS
… 10 - 1980-1990 surrounded by a laurel wreath. Artwork of a map of Nicaragua, in the middle of the earth, split into two halves, with a man in black in the …
ArchiveWomens Directive report
… Report by the NUSAS Women's Directive, presented at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University …
ArchiveOver 1 500 detained since July 20
… One of the major reasons for the State President, PW Botha, declaring a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts was to justify the …
PlaceCity Hall, Port Elizabeth
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 November 1974. The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862…
PlaceAlbert Falls, near Pietermaritzburg
… Waterfall in the Umgeni River, 22 km North-East of Pietermaritzburg. Probably named after the consort of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert. It is also the … New…
ArchiveGerman unionist visits Transvaal Alloys
… A worker representative on the board of directors of Nord-Deutsche Affinerie, a German-based … recently came out to South Africa to investigate the anti…
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… Delegates at the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, voted … Although the new party drew support from a number of leading…
PlaceKaNgwane
… KaNgwane was the Homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated … Africa, like the other nine homelands, and it became part of the…
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Odi district presented a petition listing political and civic grievances at the Odi magistrate's court…
EventUnited Democratic Front call to Police
… The United Democratic Front criticized the police actions at a Guguletu Funeral and made a call for … The police denied that they were responsible for…