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PlaceMbombela Orion Hotel, 'Promenade', Nelspruit
… Once the original town hall. This historic hotel is one of the town’s landmarks, with its stately tower …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… name and nickname of two pioneering farmers in the area. One was the Free Black farmer, Jan van Saloor, also known as …
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… 1983. She is a South African hockey legend. Marsha is one of the world’s most capped hockey players, with more than …
PlaceClocktower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… leaving the Harbour. The Clock Tower has begun to lean to one side, about 50 mm. This has since been arrested. It was …
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… stadiums in Johannesburg; the Ellis Park and Soccer City . One of the most impressive Stadiums is the Peter Mokaba …
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
… would later come to light, the inquest proved to be just one big conspiracy to conceal the real cause of Biko’s death, …
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… nine years later the Soviet Union, known by many as one of the strongest socialist countries, collapsed. The …
The 2014 Cape Agulhas Treasure Tracks
… as follows: - Maximum of 4 members per team with at least one person 16 years or younger. - Entry fee: R0 = unemployed, …
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… their background. The movement enables women to speak with one voice addressing their concerns regardless of race, class …
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… than 20 countries and they export to over 100. Sasol is one of the top five publicly listed companies in South Africa …
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
… (ANC) to skip the country. President Thabo Mbeki was one of them. Tshabalala-Msimang and her student associates …
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… the mortality rate of White South Africans. This was one of the many contradictions of the Apartheid system that …
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
… the marriage would not be recognized in South Africa. One year after the original Prohibition of Mixed Marriages …
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… purposes only, with the provision of additional energy as one of its chief aims. A secret project was begun by the …
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… the building because of a bomb threat. On the same day, one of South Africa's biggest stay-aways and organised …
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… the car keys. When the robbers found Mlokoti in the car, one of them shot him three times. He was rushed to Lesedi …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… that Kerzner had made huge secret donations to the ANC. No one knew about it except him. Click here to read an online …
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders during that conflict, …
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… at the front, while the mountain blocked access on one side and offered high ground for observation. The area …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… for alleged fraud involving R 2 billion worth of shares in one of his companies. Later that year, On 27 September, …
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at …
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… even reached the canal. This War (Tripartite Invasion) was one of the most important events in the history of African …
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… that he has replaced his wedding ring and now wears one adorned with the colours of the Egyptian flag. It has …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Queen was one of the most successful bands of the 1970s and 1980s. …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… organizer for the Queenstown branch. In 1978, Ntloko was one of seven others sentenced to five years in Robben Island … Press 2000) Gun-toting thugs rob SA…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… denied they were behind it. The booby trapped TV was just one of many attacks aimed at ANC officials in Zimbabwe. In …
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… From 1890 to 1962 Rwanda and Burundi were part of one nation, Ruanda-Urundi. Following the crash, the Mutsinzi …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… (Iscor). Van der Bijl died in 1948 and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans for his contribution to …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… by Chris Hani and Stanley Mabizela on 24 December 1989. In one of the meetings at Dakawa, Tanzanian Field Force had to …