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PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educational institutes throughout the colony…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his professional boxing career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
Shaun Thomson, an internationally recognized professional surfer, was born in Durban on 21 August 1955. He attended Clifton Preparatory School and Carmel…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from South Africa. Entry…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
The South African Police Force (SAP) stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffered casualties in clashes with 'terrorists'. South West African…
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
The Gramstown Journal, one of South Africa's important and influential early newspapers, ran from 1831- 1920. From its early days its editorial slant voiced…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
Anglo American Corporation, founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields of the East Rand, announced that it intended to transfer its…
EventWits attains full university status
The University College in Johannesburg attained full University status under the name the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. The origin of…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
Following the National Convention held by four British colonies, namely, Transvaal, Orange, Natal and Cape, the draft South Africa Act was signed in…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urged Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agreed following…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
A political activist and Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo died on 19 September, 1983, after having lapsed into a…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
The Orange Free State constitution was adopted on 7 April 1854, three weeks after the renunciation of British sovereignty. Initially the Boers (Voortrekkers)…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
Douglas Portway was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He studied fine art at the Witwatersran Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
Born in the Netherland, Pieter Wenning came to live in South Africa in 1905. Though he had settled in the Transvaal, he travelled all over South Africa and…
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ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions IDAF - International Defence and Aid Fund ILO - International Labour Organization IMF - International…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
Eugene Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1941. After matriculating he joined the South African…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
PlaceBennebroek Wreck, Hamburg
On the 16t of February 1713, the Bennebroek which was an 'East Indiaman'- which is a large sailing vessel. This type of sailing vessel's were built from in the…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
A Walk in the Night
On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To commemorate this day, the annual Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
The Conservatory was designed and erected by Boyd & Son, of Paisley, in Scotland, who dismantled the original building into sections and transported it to Port…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
WE, THE PARTIES, organisations and administrations assembled in this Multi-party Planning Conference:BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS of the responsibility we…
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was sworn in as the Executive Director of UN Women during a ceremony on 19 August 2013 at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
The South African prime minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, announced in a statement before the Supreme Court in Cape Town, that Dr. Kenneth Abrahams would be returned…
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
Many attempts were made by the Arab countries to form a United Arab Republic. The first two countries to engage in this initiative were Syria and Egypt on 22…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
Chief Albert John Luthuli, President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
On 6 March 1957, the first South African Non-White sporting team participated at the World Table Tennis Board Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. They were…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
The Mountain Zebra is an endangered species native to South Western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. It is boldly stripped in black and white or brown and…
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
On 29 July 1951 the African National Congress (ANC) called a meeting in Johannesburg. Executives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the African…