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EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… He was inducted in the New York “Walk of Fame” in 1998, as one of the most revered writers of the 21st Century. During …
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… a feature article dealing with the appalling conditions in one of the government’s Bantu Homelands. In addition to the …
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… Nations twice on the horrors of apartheid, and became one of the world's most recognised voices against white …
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… he was at the time of the tragedy. Meyiwa was one of the best players of Orlando Pirates. He was also a …
PlaceVictoria Tower, Uitenhage
… all the official buildings located in a narrow stretch in one street, to a semi-industrialised town, densely developed …
Secret Ballot
… 5 members of ‘The Brotherhood’. This here organization is one designed for the most elite Tender_prenuers and Busy_ness …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Colin Legum. Sport leads the Way, Anthony Steel. The One Criterion, Nicholas Stacey. Towards an African …
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South …
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… always been culturally diverse and the Mariamman Temple is one such example of this. The temple is famous for its …
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… annually at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner city. One of his biggest exhibitions was of a collection of his …
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… the Seqiti war, took place seven years after the first one. Led by King Moshoeshoe I, the war lasted for almost two …
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… of the British Protectorates in southern Africa. One of the victims of the Prevention of Violence Abroad …
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… and his former team Atlanta Chiefs. Kaizer Chiefs is now one of the biggest teams in the country. Motaung also …
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… Africa were divided into zones in which members of only one racial group could live. All others were to move to their …
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… to the police. At the end of the conference, a twenty-one point action programme was issued for directions to be …
EventGamal Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic
… president of the United Arab Republic. His legacy was one of awakening, of wasting Arab nationalism on an …
EventGang leader Andre Stander is shot dead in the United States of America
… USA after McCall was shot dead by police during a raid of one of the apartments in Johannesburg, where he was hiding. …
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… black consciousness groups and associations under one umbrella. Because of its racial exclusivity, the …
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… fiction, she has chosen a spiritual exile over an actual one. In announcing its selection to the press, the Academy …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… first party conference held within South Africa in thirty-one years and was opened by ANC president Oliver Tambo. The …
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… moved in to return Mangope to power. Five people died and one person was injured during events that followed. After the …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… Workers' Union demanded that their 3000 workers be paid a one-month separation pay for every year they have worked for …
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… in 2000, but released in 2001, having served just over one year of his three year sentence. Boesak has been …
EventSecond biggest archaeological discovery of the century at Sterkfontein
… One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the …
EventNatal Football Union founded
… they started arranging teams and soccer matches against one another. This co-operation on the sports-field became …
EventDr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, is born in Pretoria
… died in 1972. He had married Lillian Graham and they had one daughter. …
EventLouis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.
… California. He had been married three times and had one son.; …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… aid and education. On 11 July 1963, Bob Hepple was one of seven people arrested at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, …
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… that year they established a national structure, the YCL. One of the leaders of the YCL was Edward Roux, Sarah Sable …
EventBlack, Coloured and Indian churches issues a statement on Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act
… Act and the Mixed Marriages Act. The Immorality Act was one of the most controversial legislative enactments that …