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EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… work Sebatakgomo. References Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: …
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… and religious freedom. He called for the creation of a new world economic order and a guarantee of workers rights. …
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… President and Kaizer Matanzima as Prime Minister. The new republic did not incorporate the apartheid ideology into …
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… near Johannesburg, rose in protest against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium …
EventSA accepted back in international cricket
… to be re-instituted as a member after the formation of a new body, the UCBSA, to oversee the administration of all …
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new name - First National Bank of Southern Africa (FNB) - a …
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
… disparaged in the medical and media fraternity alike. A new study published this month by Aids, one of the world's …
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… The New National Party (NNP) announced its dissolution and merger … to December, v. 15 no. 4, p. 8.| Kesselman,M(2006),'The New National Party announced',vol…
EventDecision to integrate city councils of Pretoria area
… authorities amalgamated on 5 December 2000 to form the new municipality: The Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council …
EventPrime Minister Louis Botha resigns because of conflict with Hertzog
… Botha reformed his government with Hertzog left out of the new cabinet. Hertzog subsequently formed the National Party …
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
… students. He was a lay preacher and first president of the new synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church after the … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995).New Dictionary of…
EventThe mayor of Cape Town, Hyman Lieberman, opens the Great Synagogue in the Gardens, Cape Town
… in Cape Town had grown to such an extent that a new building was needed. The original synagogue, or shul, was …
EventAnnexation of the Orange Free State is announced
… that they would be allowed to return to their farms. The new colony was known as the Orange River Colony. … E.,(2005), Wars and Peace Treaties: 1816-1991 ,…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC), 681 000 new cancer cases and 512 400 cancer deaths were reported in … [Accessed: 22 January 2014]| Medical Chronicle, …
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… liable for his death. Dipale was arrested under the new Internal Security Act and charged with furthering the …
EventCommandant General Hiemstra announces the outcomes of Anglo-South African deliberations
… on 1 April 1957. The SA Navy was to also acquire three new Type 12 (modified Rothesay Class) anti submarine …
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
… the quota for Black students. The 1990’s would usher in a new era for the Cape Technikon. This institution launched its new organisational structure, which…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… an older Congress-aligned generation and the group of ‘new radicals’. The Naidoo family had lived for many years in … “the movement” and “the party”. ‘For a…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… and the victories of women across the world. Our new constitution, in whose drafting women played a key role, … for men is to seize the opportunities…
Address at the Opening of the Second Session of the South African-Algerian Bi-National Commission, 17 October 2001
… today to review the progress that we have made and to take new decisions further to cement the relations between Algeria … South Africa and Algeria but…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… the question of Indo-African relations has kindled a new emphasis on race relations in the Union. Eleven years … of African antagonism against Indians. Last…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… Art Fair? Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I've not … public art and structures…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… was to create a set of principles for the foundation of a new South Africa. In May 1954, Chief Albert Luthuli issued a … The ANC further proposed its own…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… service in the ANC and who are over sixty years of age. This will ensure that the ANC`s institutional memory is … remains committed to the programmes…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… and career – we get to see the man behind the camera with new eyes, and it’s quite remarkable. “In the end, the … of the Karoo, the start of democracy in…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… 20th Century are represented, including members of the New English Art Club and those of the Bloomsbury Group. Works … Exhibitions of paintings, works on…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… year about 10 000 British Settlers made their home in the new Republic. Parker was also chosen as President . It was … Court until May 1990 when the staff…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… 1990 On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… Resistance Movement had been temporarily suspended and a new Government was in power. Both he and Dr. Naicker had just … together to resist with all their…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… worker controlled unions. On the other hand, a radical new black student movement emerged with a leadership oriented … by the black power movement,…