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EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… next morning to their final destination in Mozambique. No one was killed in these attacks but a security guard in Sasol …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… apply in the Transvaal Province with immediate effect for one year. The government amended the Internal Security Act in …
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… company has diversified into other products. Putty is only one of the Pratley Groups inventions. …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… to Apartheid was not a military in nature, but a social one that comprised of people and organisations within and …
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… country was facing an escalation in violence. The PAC is one of South Africa's major political parties that endorsed …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South …
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… do grievous bodily harm. The case arose from the fact that one of the kidnapped youths, 14-year-old Stompie Sepei, had …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… offer the Peelton people land in South Africa. This was one of the great rural victories of the 1980s and it gave all …
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… by agents located in Zimbabwe . Philip Masiza Conjwayo, one of the agents was a former member of Zimbabwe’s Special …
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… 1982 and 1984 for crimes of violence against Whites, while one White man had been executed for violence against Blacks. …
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… a year. Their survival, as well as the written accounts of one crew member, Leendert Janszen, convinced the DEIC that …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… serve for two terms as the head of state. Mandela felt one term was enough as he had already laid the foundation for …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… pioneer, Mahatma Gandhi. Naidoo was hailed by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… A number of rebellions were staged against German rule, one of which resulted in the Herero Genocide of 1904. The …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… South Africa he opened a school in Sophiatown and became one of the first significant art teachers in the country. As …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… Free State, Natal and the Cape) the latter was the only one where citizens other than Whites could vote. But even …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… 1877. This rail link between Transvaal en Delagoa Bay was one of the most important purposes of both President Burgers …
EventBob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
… returned to his family in South Africa. Bob Woolmer was one of the most highly regarded cricket coaches in the world. …
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… making South Africa the first African country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… Stadium in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. He remained one of the country’s greatest middle- and long-distance …
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… on 12 August. The University of Cape Town (UCT) provided one group that marched towards the centre of town, giving the …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… a multi-cultural and economically divided South Africa. One of his best achievements was when he won the Standard …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… world. Pemba was also a good writer and wrote two plays, one of them being the well-known Nonqause. He later produced …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… to buy his freedom and settled in the United Kingdom. One of his slave masters had taught Equaino to write …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… school, the Todd Matshikiza School of Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. …
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
… is often referred to as the 'timeless' test, and the only one of its kind in history. Since then, the South African …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… the Johannesburg magistrate, Pieter Kotze, found that no one was to blame for his death. The verdict, which completely …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… a republic and named it Malawi. He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The …
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The region has become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Southern …