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PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in …
PlaceWelgelegen Farm, Stellenbosch
… vehicles minimum. +- 9 km long Trail with halfway stop on one of the highest Koppies along Bottelary, with amazing …
PlaceGrand Parade, Cape Town
… built on its fringes, and today it has shrunk to about one half of its original area. It was declared a National …
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is one of South Africa’s most well known artists. He was born in …
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were boycotted by some western …
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… of the South African Society of Artists. He was also one of the first few people to paint frescoes in South …
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… from the crowd had she won. The incident is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in Olympics history. …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the …
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… October 1944. Ahmad Mahir, the son to Muhammad Mahir, was one of the most important figures in the early history of the …
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… artist, who learned and benefited greatly from his peers. One of his mentors was Harold Jeppe, who introduced him to …
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… or protest on which all the shops were shut and no-one went to work or did any shopping, throughout the country. …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in one of J.P. van der Merwe’s coaching clinics in a township …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… post of a junior general in the army. Thereafter he was one of the main organisers of a military coup that overthrew …
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… of protests against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. * One source mentions that the restriction was in 1986, but two …
EventSoccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
… Mosimane appeared before the committee on two charges, one of bringing the PSL into disrepute and another of …
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… of the now disbanded United Democratic Front (UDF), was one of the participants in the Rainbow Debate at a heritage …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided for in the Treaty …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… reach the top of Mount Everest, an 8 848m Himalayan peak, one of the world's highest. Vilane, with dual South African …
EventCrime statistics released
… murdered in the first seven months of 1995, an average of one in every 29 minutes. This marks a 7% reduction, a big …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… died in 1986 in Dortmund, West Germany and is rated as one of the finest Black writers and intellectuals of the 20th …
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… and Briton Hadden, is printed in several languages. It is one of the most popular magazines in history, with readership …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… in 1919 at the Treaty of Versailles. South Africa was one of the founding members of the League. …
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… was followed by the Orange River Colony in 1907. One of the clauses of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty (1902) …
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… history has come to call the Annus Mirabilis Papers. In one of the four papers on mass-energy equivalence, Einstein …
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… area thrust Durban into world headlines on more than one occasion. …
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… John (Bertie) Reed (63), international sailing legend and one of the most popular skippers in single-handed racing …
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… for another five years after the expiry of a previous one. Reasons for the renewal of the banning order were based …
EventSpringbok rugby player, Schalk Burger is born in Port Elizabeth
… in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Burger is considered to be one of the most hardworking players in South Africa. In 2004 …
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… with atrophic limbs leading to paralysis. South Africa is one of the countries that are virtually polio free as is most …