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PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… things for the entire family to see and do during their time in Gauteng. …
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… a wall was also built around its courtyard. At the same time the complex also acquired a house for the chief gaoler. …
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… Eisenhower, the president of the United States at the time, acting through the local agents of the Central …
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… under Jan Smuts who was the Prime Minister at the time to annex the islands. Smuts then commissioned an inquiry …
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… sides of the political and cultural divisions of the time, closed ranks against the proposed legislation. The …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… by the family to do a private autopsy commented at the time “I left the examination with many questions I could not …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… perhaps the world's greatest female breaststroker of all time breaking 14 individual world records during her career. …
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… in discussing their constitutional differences. At this time the IFP, numerically the third largest political …
EventSt James Church massacre
… 1000 congregants were inside the church at the time. Using automatic weapons and two grenades, the APLA …
EventUDF men takes refuge in the US consulate
… to take refuge in the United States consulate came at a time when the United State Senate was considering new …
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… between the inhabitants of the different islands" In time he came to believe that the only way to account for the …
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… held 'the finest forest in the world'. Indeed, by this time the thinner forest around the more arid Table Bay side …
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… and dismissed the claim that she was not in Soweto at the time of the said incident, whereas Katiza Cebekhulu, a former …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… deaths, but the involvement of political leaders at the time, such as F.W. de Klerk, whom de Kock claims was …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Brian Anderson, the head of the Nigerian operation at the time. Shell offered $15.5 million to the families of the nine …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… threw out his arms and cried, "Shoot me!" The second time, when the crowd behind him began to move forward, he was …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… to the truth) or non-violent protest for the first time. He called on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and …
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… to conduct trading. The establishment of the JSE at this time made it the oldest stock exchange facility in the …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… 250 men, including stores and stabling facilities. By the time Somerset returned in 1821 the building had been …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… of the country. Cetshwayo's ruled the Zulu nation at a time when British colonial penetration of the South African …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… and Indian conscription) “It can have many armies, but the time is up, the patience of the people has been exhausted …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… plain work ". Initially it was used as a Church and, for a time, services were conducted there by Dr Andrew Murray until …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… of the Republic (the Orange Free State was, at one time, ruled independently by the Boers) and, as further …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… by the early 70s it was virtually non-existent. At this time, some activists in the Indian community were involved in …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… in its large and still increasing membership, than at any time in the past. NATAL AND THE INDIAN QUESTION 2. Natal …
Introduction
… which speak of the progress of the campaign from the time it was resumed in June 1908 until its final conclusion …
’Asinamali’
… campaign was one, which must go on for a long time so that the workers must understand what it is for, and …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… animal diseases and abnormalities. This was before the time of colour photographs. She produced splendid work that …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… the Cameroon fixture. The Durban match was the first time a truly representative, non-racial South African XI took …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… have been dependent on the attitude of government at the time. Under the government of the Union, Coloureds had …