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EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… date of Bacher's announcement is given as 14 February in one source. … pp. 25, 228-9.|Wilson, H, St. George's Park History - Chapter 27 , from St. George's…
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an effective voice in government, they are told …
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 …
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the Chapman. They numbered about …
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… published in 1974. Following three other publications, one of which won Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught …
EventBotha found Guilty
… era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a one year prison sentence, suspended for five years, which …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… lack of charisma from the party's national leadership as one of the reasons why he was leaving the NP. Another reason …
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… This sentence was handed down for the brutal assault of one of his workers, a Mr Paul Motshabi, whom he beat over the …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… by extreme levels of violence meted out to the workers. One of such incident, which occurred in early 1900s, was …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… were eventually consolidated in various mining companies, one of which is Anglo American. …
EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… another three days. The Tana Baru cemetery uprising was one of the most significant political events in the 19th …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… first sung publicly in 1899. The new South African flag is one of the 'youngest' flags and is the only six-coloured …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… hour. Later that month McCall was killed as police raided one of their safe houses in Houghton. Heyl fled overseas and …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… part of the war as they would sometimes pass messages from one place to another, serving as a vital source of …
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… 1960s and 1970s, but the momentum dropped in the 1980s. One of the outcomes of the boycott was the revival of student …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950: One of the most infamous of all security laws during the …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… as Eastern Cape). He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. Sobukwe was exposed to literature at an early age …
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
… took place between 1873 and 1874, 50 years after the first one. The Ashanti Kingdom had its headquarters in Kumasi, …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… of the road. Two events of the same nature, before this one, happened on the same road where 330 people lost their …
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… Raymond Dart was born in Queensland Australia in 1893. One of nine siblings, he grew up on a farm herding cattle. He …
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… should never be fully analysed. This is fully evident in one of his quotes that states: “...art which can be …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… republic.” On 3 April 2010, he was murdered at his farm by one of his workers. …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… in Pretoria to protest against pass laws. This march was one of the organisation's most important campaigns. …
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… and trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks that opened …
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… by the terrain, and encircled, the South Africans made one desperate attempt to break out on June 27 and were again defeated. One South African newspaper…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa. The … riots nor the destitute condition of the…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… and support, and sincerely hope that each and every one of us will prove worthy of the trust and confidence the world has in us. We believe that one of the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… struggle between brutal oppression and exploitation on one hand, and the quest for genuine emancipation of all our … among the people until all of us…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… It makes no sense that they should be separated from one another by ignorance of one another. Indeed that dangerous state of unknowing, which … leads to…