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EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… the anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… but were given prison sentences ranging from seven to one year's imprisonment for being members of the illegal …
EventSA signs Nuclear Treaty
… Nuclear rollback occurs when a nation voluntarily achieves one or more of the following: eliminates its nuclear weapons, …
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in Mooketsi, …
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… World Without Leprosy' is a realistic and achievable goal. One of the congress attendants, Executive Director of the …
EventBafana Bafana lose to Egypt in the African Cup of Nations final
… in this continental competition after winning the previous one on their home soil in 1996. Despite suffering a defeat, …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most progressive in the world. It was approved by …
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called for a one-day general strike on 30 April 1996 to demonstrate …
EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
… support came from listener's licenses like the first one issued to Dr J. van Rensburg. …
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… born in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg district. Nakene became one of the first Black student to graduate with a Bachelor of …
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age of eighty-one. He was elected as president by the Volksraad in 1857 and …
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
… only 134 casualties among armed defenders and twenty-one civilians, but some 1 500 people, mostly Coloureds and …
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… days it was shelling the Boer lines. Labram was one of the defendants when Kimberley was under siege by the …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… in South Africa. He is the father of Alex La Guma, one of the 156 Treason Trial plaintiffs in 1956. …
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… number of attacks on White civilians, with the recent one being an ambush on a motorist at Eikenhof, near …
EventPolitical activist Mvulane Zacharia Bheki dies in detention
… on by the police until he lost consciousness. He was just one of the many detainees who mysteriously lost their lives …
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… Ghadir in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the …
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… There is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the …
EventGandhi leads a march from Newcastle into the Transvaal to defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
… led by Thambi Naidoo and Albert Christopher. This marked one of the greatest episodes in South African history. He was …
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… caught later and admitted his role in the raid. This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some …
EventTwenty-six miners trapped in a Swaziland coal mine are rescued with help from South Africa.
… number of men ever to be rescued through a whole. Thirty one hours after the accident all the trapped men were above …
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
… arson and carried out an investigation. It is considered one of Kenya’s deadliest fires. …
EventTanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Han
… in the mainland, formerly Tanganyika. The country is a one party dominant state. The current president is Jakaya … Available at www.bbc.com [Accessed: 25…
PlaceLittle Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban
… Rd. Turn left into Argyle Rd and left again into Wi. It is one of the last remaining double storey cast-iron verandah …
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected during the …
EventAt Botha, SA artist, is born.
… At Botha is one of South Africa’s most renowned artists. He was born in …
ArticleSS Clan Stuart
… South Africa, as there are three versions of her journey. One version says the steamship was delivering a shipment of … she was delivering coal to St. Helena…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… Social Centre in Durban in November of that year. It is one of his early ,political speeches and was delivered in … Dr Malan and Mr Havenga have amalgamated…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… partners proving their marriage to be a much happier one than Efuru’s first marriage. Yet, when Efuru is unable to … in the Igbo area – positions which…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… at all three tiers. We have piloted into existence one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The … in this respect at the TRC, and in general,…