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EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is the only author ever to win the Booker prize twice, but the publicity-shy…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Ghananian Peter Turkson…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
The Nigerian Islamic Appeals Court freed Amina Lawal, a young woman sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
The senior political writer of the Sunday Times, Ranjeni Munusamy, was suspended by the newspaper after her admission that she passed a story on spy…
EventIdi Amin dies
Former Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, passed away in Jidda, South Arabia, where he had lived in exile for many years. Amin died at the age of 78 as a result of…
West African troops keep peace in Liberia
EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
On 25 June 2003, the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approved the construction of a prototype pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR)…
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, became the first Black South African to reach the top of Mount Everest, an 8 848m Himalayan peak, one of the world's…
EventBafana Bafana loses to England
South Africa national soccer team, Bafana Bafana played England star-studded team in a friendly international match at Absa Stadium in Durban. The match was to…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg,…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's largest producer of AIDS drugs, announced it would reduce the price of its popular AIDS medication. Combivir, a…
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
Six men accused of killing Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects,…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
The American president, George W Bush, announced his five-year $15 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in twelve African and two…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
Tatamkhulu Africa was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
The World Food Program (WFP) was started in 1962 and is concerned with 'providing enough food for every child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
Just after midnight on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the…
EventUS Secretary of State Colin Powell is heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit.
Secretary of State Colin Powell was heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in, South Africa. The Summit took…
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
The ex-residents and those who remember aim to reclaim their heritage, to restore themselves and the vital legacy of a community, through a festival that…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Location: back to this day in history search archive  An estimated 60,000…
EventMedicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run through…
EventLuyanda Mboniswa charged with the murder of Marike de Klerk
A 21 year old security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, Luyanda Mboniswa, was charged with robbing, raping and murder of Marike de…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) tabled a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the…
EventThe United States shuts its embassy in Nairobi
The United States (US) shut down its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after a terrorist threat. Following the threat, the US and British governments warned their…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named…
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
On 20 May 2002, South African Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, announced at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa was…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
Walter Sisulu celebrates his 90th birthday. One of the godfathers of the fight for equality in South Africa, he has fought long and hard against racism and…
EventDr Wouter Basson is acquitted
South African biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson was acquitted by Judge Willie Hartzenberg on forty-six charges of murdering apartheid opponents,…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
After the death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the Angolan government announced a ceasefire with…
EventPrincess Margaret dies
Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 at King Edward VII Hospital. She suffered…