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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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front statement on national detainees day
… Front statement on national detainees day in support of the call by the Detainees Parents Support Committee for 12 March to be a …
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…
EventSA struggles to fight HIV/AIDS pandemic
… ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan was lagging behind as the government struggled to plug a shortage of doctors and pharmacists and other professionals needed…
EventNP serves legal papers on TRC
… The National Party (NP) served legal papers on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) giving notice of a High Court application to be heard on 26…
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… Hashim Mahomed Amla is a South African batsman. He is the first cricketer of Indian descent to reach the national squad. Amla began his professional cricket…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' … taxi conflict mediator in Cape Town when he was murdered. The escalating violence after the…
EventLegal action against election results
… The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared … chaos and intimidation during…