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EventSipho Ngomane of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban.
Sipho Ngomane of Nelspruit started running at the age of 16 after playing soccer initially. On 16 June 2005, Ngomane won the 80th Comrades Marathon race, after…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
President Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Mbeki makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the…
EventSevered human leg drops off SAA plane
A human leg was dropped from a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft as it was preparing to land at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Pam Hearne, the owner…
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
A close friend of former deputy president Jacob "JZ" Zuma and successful businessman Schabir Shaik was found guilty on two counts of corruption and one count…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
The former African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart…
EventNNP federal council decides to disband the party
At midnight on the evening of the final certification of results of the 2006 local government elections, the federal council of the New National Party agreed…
EventThird Pan African Parliament session begins in Midrand
The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) began at its temporary home in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. The session was opened…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
The South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive…
EventSA struggles to fight HIV/AIDS pandemic
News 24 reported that South Africa's ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan was lagging behind as the government struggled to plug a shortage of doctors and…
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
A 31 year-old prison warder Jacques Horne on guard duty, was shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital to free…
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
Bertie van Zyl (72), founder and owner of ZZ2, the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in Mooketsi,…
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
The United Nations states in Addis Adaba that more than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025. The numbers could soar to ninety million, or more…
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
Action started on 27 February developed into a countrywide truck drivers' strike on 1 March. The strike involved over 35,000 workers, who were demanding a wage…
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
The South African Xhosa film uCarmen eKhayelitsha became the second South African movie to compete and first to win the Golden Bear award as the best film at…
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
On 7 February 2005, reports were issued of the use of fake versions of the then new South African banknotes. These came hardly a week after the latest currency…
EventG7 meeting on world finance kicks off in London
Top finance officials from seven of the world's richest countries, the G7 (now Group of 8 after the inclusion of Russia), opened a two-day meeting in London…
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations converged in South Africa from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy…
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
The Sunday newspaper Sunday Independent reported that the special mixture prescribed by SA Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to fight HIV/AIDS, could…
EventThe Gift Of The Givers Foundation helps tsunami victims
Gift Of The Givers Foundation logo Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of the Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announced in Johannesburg that the…
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
SA finance minister Trevor Manuel, upon his arrival in Davos, Switzerland, predicted economic growth in South Africa, boosted by infrastructure spending and…
EventWestern Cape High Court suspends pebble bed modular reactor at Koeberg
The Western Cape High Court set aside Western Cape provincial Department of Environmental Affair's decision to permit the construction of a pebble bed modular…
EventOscar Nominations are announced
The first Oscar nomination for a South African film Yesterday in the Best Foreign Language category, was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Warlord Thomas Shabalala is shot
EventJoe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire
On this day the Joe Slovo informal settlement situated outside Cape Town was devastated by a shack fire. Seven people, including two children, were seriously…
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
Former president Nelson Mandela's only surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, died of HIV/AIDS in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. His father put up a brave…
EventSix SA Tsunami survivors arrive at Lanseria
Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrived at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok. The tsunamis were set off a…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed the…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
Mbabane based newspaper, Times, reported that King Mswati III of Swaziland bought himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth $500,000 despite his country's…