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EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… Masinga played for Jomo Cosmos and Mamelodi Sundowns before moving overseas in 1994. He also played for …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Part 1 - The Coming of Gold Chapter 1 - South Africa before Industrial Times Chapter 2 - The Gold Rush Chapter 3 - …
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… into the large Corumana Dam, about 40 km from Moambe, before it finally joins the Komati. Settlements on its banks …
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… Limpopo). However, he went into exile in Lesotho in 1980, before he could complete his studies. While in Lesotho, he …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… party has disbanded. The announcement was made a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc.). Even before her death she was honoured as 'Mother of Black Freedom …
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… and Jerry Raven, who manufactured the bomb, appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to apply …
EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… attacks in Sasol I and NATREF, remained in the country before retreating to Mozambique via Swaziland. The executors …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… in the stadium which had hosted the Olympics the year before. There he set the world record time for the event, at …
EventNational Party wins general election
… a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in office six months later. Of the …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… Motsoaledi. Three of the eight prisoners who were released before and after 1989 were, Dennis Goldberg (1985), Govan …
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… was paid Z$20.00 to drive the truck to the destination. Before he drove the truck, it was booby-trapped by Mr Kit …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… and spent thirty-seven days in the American Consulate, before securing passports and flying out of the country. …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… that the South African authorities were to blame. A day before Machel’s death, Carlos Cardosa, Director of the …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… in which the League was installed in 1936, three years before the outbreak of World War II. On 26 June 1945, …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… Railway to Umtali was completed in February 1989, just before the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). …
EventJameson Raid starts
… that by a sudden advance he would reach Johannesburg before Boer forces could be mobilised to stop him. He was …
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… allowed the women and children to escape in the boats before trying to save themselves. Of the 638 passengers, 445 …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… of America and twice escaped from mental institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… children. His son John Matshikiza was a well known actor before his untimely death in 2008. …
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… with the assassination of Chris Hani. A few months before he died, he participated in the Multi-party …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… Bowler spent five years studying and practising drawing before he reached master status in the craft. His subject …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… Zimbabwe ) and Nyasaland (now Malawi ) was made. In 1959, before the fall of the federation, nationalist movements …
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… was initially elected as President; however Donges died before he could take his Presidential seat in office. …
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
… I ask you, then, to go back to the interviews we had before voluntary registration started, and to what you used … to Sir George Farrar, as he considered it…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… morning, he would sketch scenes and images from his dreams before doing anything else. Statements about his early school … hurt me so much.” (Smith, 2004) …
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… including his ‘disgrace’ at the beginning of the novel before exploring how and why he reaches a new state of grace … where a narrative begins with a sense…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… Ruth was assassinated by a letter bomb in 1982, 12 years before the prohibition of the apartheid government. Ruth … to her public speeches. Ruth directed her…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… be brought into the area of practical politics. POSITION BEFORE UNION Now, the best way to begin is to ask ourselves … the position of the Coloured man in…