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EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… health until 1900. He left the capital only a few days before Lord Roberts occupied it in May of the same year. On …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… where she initially focused on drama and playwright before she branched into poetry and fiction. She wrote a few …
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Industry and Small Businesses, it bears reflecting that before 1884 the area was settled by Boer farmers on only nine …
EventNative Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers
… Long before European settlers arrived at the Cape, it was …
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… titles (now known as the Mr. Price Pro), and just a year before finishing his qualification, joined the IPS tour. …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… man at the explosives factory at Modderfontein, Springs, before he volunteered for service with the Native Military …
EventThe first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place
… drama started. The aircraft then landed at Salisbury, before taking off en route to the Seychelles, and then Capt …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… many supplementary schemes will have to be tackled long before the end of this century in order to store the water, …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… were killed in the first days after 1 April 1989, just before UN peacekeepers formally took over from the SADF, in …
EventMangosutho Buthelezi reveals his daughter died from HIV/Aids
… too little. How much more suffering and pain shall we bear before those who have the responsibility open their hearts? …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… issues they were experiencing. However, it was not long before he resigned from the UDM and quitted his seat in the …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), General …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… War increased to over twice it's the area to what existed before the war. This increase meant that the usual means of …
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… attempted to table all those wounded or killed in the war before he left South Africa, which no doubt serves as a …
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… which purpose the interim constitution would be amended before the election any outstanding issues in respect of the …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… during his lunch time. He robbed several banks in Durban before he was caught. He was sentenced to seven years in …
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Makgatho of the Makgatho chieftaincy at GaMphahlele. Before embarking on a political career, Makgato wa a teacher …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… was banned in 1950. On 20 June 1950, only a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act became law, Sam Kahn …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… his opponents either, by forcing them to lie down before him while he trod on their knecks with his boot, or …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… President Oliver Tambo would have been prepared for weeks, before they arrive. The emergency visit by the ANC leadership …
PlaceBaviaanskloof Region and Pass, Eastern Cape
… at the start of the Gorge. The last stop, so to speak, before entering the wilderness of the Baviaanskloof. A single … Bossies and Fynbos . "The best time to…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… that angle, then take off. They have to get their stuff in before ten O’clock so that they can get their three … on the international community. The themes…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… the South Africans did all they could to displace the MPLA before independence was announced. Cuban soldiers fought … established by 31 January 1975…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… housing schemes for Europeans, only 17/6 for Indians. In 1940 the average property per head owned by Europeans was £ … be negligible. The voting on this very…
ArticleSouth African Film
… supplied the money to make them. They did reasonably well before African audiences, and before art-house audiences in Europe. Overall however, they …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… civil rights. She was born in South Africa sixteen years before the official start of apartheid. In 1960 she was … she wanted to see the world and life…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… would remain connected to the Youth League, especial before Walter was imprisoned, it was not her main connection … meant that her banning order ended…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… 5 October, Tenders to survey the new mining village come before the Executive Council of the ZAR (Zuid Afrikaanse … with preventing the destruction of the…
PlaceVlakfontein Monument, Roodepoort
… had been stolen and the grass was still as high as before. …
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… 1896. The famous artist J.H. Pierneef attended the school before the Anglo-Boer War . During the war, the structure was …