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EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… international start. Habana was voted for the second time Player of the Year at the annual SA Rugby Awards Banquet …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… polls on 27 April 1994. His announcement came at the time when the party experiencing difficulty due to infighting …
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… gorilla, with whom he was sharing a special moment at the time. He grabbed the man, who shot him three times. The …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… with the National Party (NP) participating for the first time. The main point at issue was whether South Africa should …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… clothe and shelter women and children. Due to limited time and resources, she did not visit the camps for Blacks, …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… a book titled: “We were there”, a documentation of his time in South Africa’s war on the Namibian/Angola border. …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… into the South African Sports Hall of Fame. At the time of his death in 2009, he had published 14 books. He is …
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… bases at the Artlite factory. In 1973 he became a full-time artist. He travelled to London where met former British …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… a feminist whose world views were very advanced for her time. Her books though written over a century ago, seem to …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… raid by police searching for illicit liquor. This was at a time when the policemen would attempt to forcefully remove …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this time, to avoid huge crowds of Africans thronging the court … and ponderous and we needed speed so as…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… that gave a very strong focus, it was for the first time a clear indication to the black majority that they were … and heavily insulated from the struggle…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… The building was opened in 1862 and in its time was the first teaching hospital in South Africa. It was …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… note when she sees one, The Cape Town Club having had its time there, and gracefully survived a serious blaze just …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the time, was received at the City Hall after a traditional …
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… in the Victorian Gothic style, has been closed for some time, in order that vital maintenance work be done. Therefore …
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… her husband’s arrest was inevitable and the considerable time she and her two small children would endure without him …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… was responsible for the organisation of metal workers at a time when the government had increased its repressive …
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe and …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… to change from a monarchy to a republic, and at the same time to request permission to remain within the British …
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… three-year-old son, Fritz, was also in the kitchen at the time but he was not hurt. The perpetrators Craig Williamson …
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… was contrary to the official view of the White DRC at that time. However, during the 1986 synod the following viewpoint …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… Olympics the year before. There he set the world record time for the event, at 2.16.0. South Africa's isolation from …
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… Value Added Tax (VAT) would be increased and for the first time it would be added to all foods. The South African Police …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… the State of Emergency was lifted in 1990, and by the time the first democratic elections had taken place in 1994, …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… of the same year. This particular meeting was the first time de Klerk and Mandela had met since Mandela's release …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… Sports Congress. Furthermore, the tour took place at a time when South Africa was going through a period of …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… especially after the June 16 Uprisings in Soweto . At the time of his death, Qoboza was editor of the weekly newspaper …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… and he was elected as Mozambique's first president. At the time of his death, Machel had been in power for 11 years. On …