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EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… repeated droughts and famine. The 1984 famine was one of the worst in Ethiopian history. In 2002 humanitarian …
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Adriaan van der Stel. Upon his retirement, Simon was one of the largest landowners at the Cape. He settled on his …
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… to a lack of understanding, a crossbow was fired killing one of the Khoi. The Post Office Tree, where seafarers from …
EventPharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit
… to manufacture their drugs. This, as South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of HIV and AIDS among its …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… alleged by Bantu Holomisa, but stated that he has told no-one else in the African National Congress (ANC) about the …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… 18 years and 340 days. Adams represented South Africa in One Day International (ODI) matches played from 26 to 30 …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… of which she was a conductor. During August, 1975, she was one of a group of instructors who accompanied the first South …
EventDynamite explosion in Braamfontein
… One of the worst explosions in the history of South Africa …
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… countries to be used as launching pads for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the African National …
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa as one of its provinces. Now called KwaZulu-Natal it was …
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… their own engine for the plane since they couldn’t find one that was both light enough and powerful enough for their …
EventThe inquest into the death in detention of Dr. Neil Aggett is adjourned
… by Johannesburg magistrate, Pieter Kotze found that no one was to blame for Dr. Aggett’s death. …
EventKing Mswati III is born
… was born in Masundini Swaziland to King Sobhuza III and one of his younger wives Ntombi Tfwala. Mswati was Tfwala’s …
EventMannetjies Coetzer is killed by a crocodile in the Kunene River
… and his brother Lucas made their way to the river one night to take a bath when Coetzer was snatched by a …
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop papers couldn’t in …
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… the north of the country was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history of the movement in …
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.
… slave trade in Ethiopia was slightly more humane than the one in western countries. It was also influenced by religion; …
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… Archibald Lamont was one of seven children born to Alexander Lamont, a …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… with its adjoining residence known as Atherton , form one of the most impressive groups of Edwardian villas in the …
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… his return from Europe. The tree is reputed to have been one of the president's favourite places of repose but, sadly, …
EventMorocco reclaims its long lost region of Sidi Ifni from Spain
… Sidi Ifni to Morocco was signed between Spain and Morocco. One of the terms of the agreement was the awarding of fishing …
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the organisers, wrote a letter to Prime Minister J.C. …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… the Apartheid State, in an attempt to launch negotiations, one humble prisoner said that, at a first meeting between … we do acknowledge that we shall not…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… supplies, and then returned to bomb the rebels. During one of these sorties Colonel Sir Pierre van Ryneveld's … (Taffy) Long , heralded by subsequent labour…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… become the basis of a democratic constitution hailed as one of the most progressive in the world. Members of the … the firebrand political styles of Mokaba…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… could. Resistance and the United Democratic Front (UDF) One of the reasons why the 1980s became so violent and moved … the United Democratic Front (UDF). The…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of Retief, but other sources site additional reasons, one being that Dingane’s agents, who had accompanied Retief … nothing to do with the handing over of…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… strength to object, it made them even more of a target. One of the biggest problems that made women such a large … day, ended up working for years from 8 A.M…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… franchise qualifications and the Cape Colony was the only one which permitted voting by (property owning) non-whites. … in creating a unified country within…