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Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… in terms of GDP, has grown to more than 3.5 trillion rand. Jobs are now being created again.There are now 15 … in the emerging market currencies, including…
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… disappeared in the Knysna Forest. The daughter of a Rand Mine's executive, Rosalind left Cape Town on 11 August …
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… people marched to the Katlehong Town Council offices, East Rand (now Ekurhuleni), protesting against high rent and …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… movement that staged the Mau-Mau Rebellion, a peasant revolt against white colonial rule. He was arrested in 1952 …
PlaceTsolo
… the Transkei and Basutoland had united in common revolt. Under the pretence of joining the British in a police …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… of European settlement upon their ancestral lands, rose in revolt against the British. They were given support by their …
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… Magister Artium in History in the Faculty of Arts, at the Rand Afrikaans University. This study directs its attention …
EventSoweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged with negligent and drunken driving
… involved in two car accidents in Boskruin, on the West Rand.Maphanga was involved in a collision with another car at …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, on the East Rand, Johannesburg. After several months of negotiating, …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by …
EventBomb in Benoni Wimpy kills Mary
… in the Wimpy Bar at the Benoni Plaza, Benoni on the East-Rand. About sixty people were injured, of whom nine …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… president Samora Machel , started its first hearing at the Rand Supreme Court in Johannesburg. Machel's plane crashed in …
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… which only encouraged militants. After this speech the Rand traded very low against the dollar and economic …
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
… when the note was tilted or colour-changing ink on the rand number value at the right-hand bottom of the note. There …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… and Cape. After discovery of the main gold reef on the Rand in 1886, the matter gained even greater urgency. On …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… High School, and then started running for the East Rand Propriety Mines. On 15 April 1978, Motshwareteu entered …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to 'Kaffir level', leading them to support the colonial revolt. The white unemployed here flocked to the CP for …
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… apartheid government. Clearly, the events of the Soweto revolt and the response from the liberation movement in exile …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… taken by the ANC and the PAC which called on Africans to revolt against the carrying of passes. The Government …
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… the “multi-national” South African Games (4-0; 3-1) at the Rand Stadium, Johannesburg. 1974 A Whites-only team defeats a … team (2-0) in the Embassy…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… was elected as its first National Secretary. Like the Rand Youth Club, ASA was Walter Sisulu’s idea, as he was …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… years later, in April 1971. Construction cost 2 million Rand (at the time, US$2.8 million). The tower was initially …
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… outside the gates of Cargo Carriers in the Vaal Rand area. The dispute affected half of South Africa's …
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… railway to Boksburg (opened in 1890) was called the Rand Tram. Tram services also existed in Pretoria and Durban, …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… could not be awarded the title of world record holder. The Rand Daily Mail, a British Newspaper advised Budd to apply …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… in the West such as the AAM. February/March, The Pondoland Revolt , an uprising against the imposition of Bantustans and … is estimated that more than 40% of…
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
… fell from power in 1985. At the outbreak of the Soweto Revolt in June 1976, this cordial relationship waned. …
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… During his matric, he became actively involved in the East Rand anti apartheid Labour party, contesting for the Coloured …
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… Textbooks prices have skyrocketed globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does the price of textbooks for already …
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… in death squads and the ongoing violence in the rand and Natal ). The ANC concluded that these actions did …