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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…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on the basis of the common law…
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
At the time, leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, finally took the stand at the Durban High Court to testify in the fraud and corruption…
EventSouth Africa receives top honors from the International Rugby Board
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
South Africa's tour of the British Isles finished on an upbeat note as Jake White's experimental young side takes Scotland apart at Murrayfield, winning 10-45…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
Acclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons died in Cape Town. Cussons was known for her poetry works in Afrikaans, produced in ten volumes. Cussons was born…
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
Child kidnapping, trafficking and prostitution has become rife in the syndicates of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Children who are trafficked for sexual…
Tutu issues warning against BEE and Government policies
EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
The twenty-one year old South African rugby flanker, Schalk Burger, picked up two major international awards, the International Rugby Players' Association …
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, passed away following complications after a minor operation. Kgoali was also a…
Millions of Zim refugees cross into SA
Pandemonium breaks out at Carnival City
African Statistics Day is observed
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
Rugby developed as a sport in South Africa in the late nineteenth century. It is said to have become so popular that a temporary cease-fire was called for…