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PlaceRiversdale, Western Cape
… Again the Doornkraal 'Steyns' featured prominently. This time in the governance of the Town when Jacobus J Steyn, son …
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… Two years later, in May 1993, he tried again, this time against Pat Clinton. In front of Clinton’s home ground …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to the …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… Ibrahim and Miriam Makeba (who he was married at one time). …
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… idea was conceived by the SASO Secretary General at the time, Muntu Myeza. These rallies were the only national …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… Despite judicial inquest, no trial took place at the time to reprimand the offenders. A previous violent attack …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… 13, 1990. In the statement Bacher acknowledged that it was time to compromise and that the event had been overrun by the …
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… 1988, Mother Teresa visited South Africa for the first time. She founded a mission of the order in Khayelitsha, …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… the United Nations, who was in command of Namibia at the time. Viljoen said burying guerrillas was a police function …
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… January- July, almost 90% of all worldwide cases at the time. Today, thanks to the re-issuing of the vaccine, this …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… On 25 October 1999, Coetzee won the Booker Prize a second time for his novel Disgrace (1999). In 2003, he was also …
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… of the Pretoria Convention on 3 August 1881) for the first time. He won the election against Joubert with 3 471 votes to …
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in South Africa was a turning point in his career and …
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… of the Sherlock Holmes crime novel series, he also spent time in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. Doyle …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… set aside by proclamation for another race. For the first time, it at least potentially extended compulsory general …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. The voting time was extended until 7 pm on 29 April in Venda, Gazankulu, …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… would rob banks on his off days and even during his lunch time. He robbed several banks in Durban before he was caught. …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852. He ruled during the time of the Frontier Wars and was remowned for his autocratic …
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
… sacrifices and even traded slaves with Europeans. Over time, the Ashanti Kingdom gradually lost their domination …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… that Mbeki was very unhappy with the suggestion that the time had come for him to take up his weapon and join the …
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a full time painter and started working on his first solo …
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… Ronald Reagan says the word “AIDS” in public for the first time. 1988 December 1st is declared as World AIDS Day by The … cannot transmit HIV through sexual…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… shortage of skills in our economy even today. At that time, the regime intensified its efforts to suppress the … but without compromising the mission. It was…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… kiss in public without blushing. This wooing occurs at a time when the whole continent of Afrika is in labour, … will come forth). We are being wooed…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… kiss in public without blushing. This wooing occurs at a time when the whole continent of Afrika is in labour, … will come forth). We are being wooed…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… identification. Indians and Africans have accepted the challenge of a multi-racial society, and are today, … Government of India £3,750. (b) Indians had…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… and was therefore one of the most important events of our time. There entered into the world arena a great new force … to the Freedom Charter must not merely…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… to be free and equal and fulfilled. We will use this time to recall the hardship and the suffering which … longer define the lives of the present? We must…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… This obtains to a considerable extent at the present time and this is so because organised white labour lacks … and not pushing for their just demands." At…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… must be executed within the established and time-tested culture and discipline of our movement. We must … includes that teachers must be in school, in class,…