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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…
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 …
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…
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…
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, … residence of Khethomtandayo. Zwelithini was…
EventWestern Cape High Court suspends pebble bed modular reactor at Koeberg
… The Western Cape High Court set aside Western Cape provincial Department of Environmental Affair's decision to permit the construction of a pebble bed…
ArchiveCall by United States Ambassador H Nickel on Mr R F Botha at 10h30 on 3 June 1985, State Guest House, Pretoria
… Minutes of a meeting between Ambassador Nickel from the United States … and others to discuss international relations regarding the political and military…
ArchiveAngola Group Discussion: Oatlands, Virginia, 18 March 1983
… Minutes of a meeting with delegates from the United States of Amercia and South Africa to discuss the political and military situation in southern Africa wih…
Invitation: 2016 City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award - Winner Announcement, Open Book Festival
… Join Tafelberg and City Press for the announcement of the winner of the 2016 City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award …
ArchiveFarm labour law conference, 1993 report
… Report by the Street Law Coordinator on the Farm Labour Law Conference which discussed the consequences and meaning of the extension of Labour Legislation to…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front declaration
… Declaration made by the freedom loving people of South Africa cherishing the vision of a United Democratic South Africa against the …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.1 1990
… and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, STORIES: From the Roof, the Sky, Peter Esterhuysen; The Coon, M. Cassiem D'Arcy; He … Padayachee. ESSAYS: Who Writes…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by Ivan Vladislavic. From the Oral Tradition: Rise Eagle Rise by Don Mattera. Interview: John Kani: Combatant from the Stage…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand … movements. Tsiranana became…
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… The athlete Hezekiel Sepeng is born in Potchefstroom, North West (then Western Transvaal). The ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in one…
ArchiveInterview with Frank Chikane
… just after Rev. Chikane's appointment as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC). Chikane, age 36, was underground at the time of…
EventButhelezi condemns Zululand consolidation plans
… Dr. Mangosutho Buthelezi , Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in 1972 and later leader of Inkatha, rejected the South African…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… a 3-year National Diploma and started her career at the Department of State Expenditure in 1992. In 1994, she applied for a job in the office of the first…
EventJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape
… was a self taught painter who specialised and excelled in the landscape genre. He found inspiration from his local surroundings of Riversdale and the…
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), he was 41 years old. The Great Trek in South Africa started in 1835 when over a three year period more then 12,000 Boers …
EventSydney Bunting, labour union leader dies
… South African communist and labour union leader, died at the age of 53 in Johannesburg, from stroke related disease. Bunting played an instrumental role in…
ArchiveLetter from Duncan Innes, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from Duncan Innes, President of the National Union of South African Students, with a report giving information on the National Union,…
ArchiveANC Interim Constitutional Framework
… Document outlining the African National Congress Interim Constitutional Framework, adopted by the National Executive Committee for the period of re…
PlaceNorth Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg
… North Lodge was modeled on French and Scottish castles! The building, designed by Herbert J Aldwyncle, was completed in 1906 for for the “Oats King” Henry…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… was a nationalist and a freedom fighter. Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the Second World War broke out and was deployed in London as … He later joined…
PlaceBeestekraal, North West
… Settlement with a Railway Station and Post Office, North of Brits. It was given the name in 1837 by the Voortrekkers under Andries Potgieter because here…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
… and suspected nationalist guerrillas some forty miles west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height of the…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Siamese twins have successfully been separated in the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town. The operation, which was conducted by surgeon Syd Cywes,…