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EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… Yar’ Adua’s inauguration ceremony was successful despite his rivals’ disputing the April election’s results. His main rivals were MuhammadBuhari of the All…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… signed to the Mabala Noise record label. Nasty C released his first mixtape titled “One Kid a Thousand Coffins” in May … Hip Hop Album”, and “Song of the…
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… as a second dwelling house. It was later occupied by his son Fred Trautman who,. after the birth of his son in 1878, enlarged it by the addition of two extra…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… the fourteen years of working for the government, he and his team developed the Republican Style (also known as … Wilhelmiens), designing numerous…
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… as a number of African dialects, which assisted him in his work as a court interpreter. Matseke became prominent in … and eventually succeeded S.M. Makgatho…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… Smith accepted the principle of majority rule in his country. Despite this major breakthrough there were no … except an announcement by Smith on 24 September…
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
… On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The … board the Dromedaris Van Riebeeck conducted meetings with…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… era. Despite the tremendous risk of isolation and death, many citizens and political activists continued to … her escape from Fort Napier, which he then…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… case of this thesis to PR Pather and to a lesser extent his son Masla. It is pitiable that today we find ourselves in … to do is to look at one man, PR…
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
… Total Strategy. Speaker made personal reference to his own banning orders which had prevented him from continuing his association with the National Union…
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… occupant. Admiral Lord Nelson is presumed to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of …
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… Africa (GWU). The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to … the activities of the union. The second…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… in watercolour. He also produced some wood engravings. His early works were ancient in effect, but this changed as he progressed further in his career. …
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… Party in Orlando Township, Soweto , passed away at his Orlando East home in Soweto. He was given a rousing civic … buried at the Doornkop Cemetery. Mpanza…
EventAWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested
… (AWB), Eugene Terre'Blanche, and nine of his followers were arrested and charged with public violence. … place after a long police investigation. Terre…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… pass away in office. A committee was set up by the ANC and his family to make arrangements for his funeral at KwaMashu Stadium in Durban on 30 October. …
PlaceBelvidere, Knysna
… He retired to Knysna the following year, where he devoted his time to the development of his estate on the Knysna Lagoon, and to the construction of …
PlaceJock of the Bushveld, Monument in Barberton
… Bullterrier cross, was immortalized in a book by his owner, Sir Percy FitzPatrick, who wrote about his exploits with Jock, while working as a transport rider…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… abakwaLanga; ibuyis' inhloko yadi' amadoda! His Majesty the King, The Mayor of KwaDukuza, Mr Siyanda … was around these hills and valleys that King Shaka…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… by its implications. There is a trace of despair in his presidential address when he declared that discriminatory legislation would continue to be passed…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… to accept the president's belated apology. Yet, all his actions in response to the public protector's report … not distance himself from these misleading…
EventBurundi gains independence from Belgium
… Tutsi retaliations. Subsequently, Mwambutsa was deposed by his son, Ntaré V, in 1966. Less than a year after he toppled his father Ntaré was overthrown in a…
EventMacmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament
… Macmillan, British Conservative prime minister, delivered his 'winds of change' speech, condemning apartheid, to … Minister H.F. Verwoerd rejected Macmillan…
EventAllan Boesak marries Elna Botha
… moderator of the Uniting Reformed Church and had divorced his wife Dorothy, by whom he had four children. Boesak had resigned from the church before his…
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
… to Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Kelehe dedicated his win to his late baby daughter who died at the age of eighteen months …
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I’Ons (85) dies
… Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802 and, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Cape Colony in 1834. They settled in … Cape, shortly before the sixth…
EventANC leads march through central Durban
… a few days after Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini called on his loyal subjects to boycott elections. Zwelithini further told his subjects that the interim…
Afrikaner
… and view of the world. It also influenced all aspects of his cultural activities. In addition, individuality and … of the people. Coert Steynberg will also…
PlaceAogutoas, Village near Port Nolloth
… old man'. Its location was marked by Bartolomeu Dias on his epic voyage around the Cape, in 1487. It was the last landfall sighted before a wild storm blew…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… crowd greeting him at Kulungugu, Northern Region in Ghana. His rule in Ghana was becoming progressively oppressive. Four … Detention Act, which he had used…