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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… privileged to honour today. As we approached the day of his assumption of office, I requested the then Chief … State Protocol, the Director General in the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… Africa’s participation in the war, leading to Hertzog and his National Party being marginalized. It also marked the …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… Nkohla received South African Rugby President’s Award for his contribution in rugby. Furthermore, in 2014, Welile … Rugby Museum in Cape Town. Welile…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… in the Cape Province in 1865. Boonzaaier became famous for his caricatures and political cartoons. He came to Cape Town … the 1940s. Boonzaaier died in Cape…
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… of the Apartheid regime’s Bantu Authorities Act (1951).For his support of the Apartheid government, Matanzima became a … support of these non-elected chiefs…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… that 52% were in favour of a republic. In accordance with his promise that the republic would remain within the British … South Africa's policy of apartheid…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers, developed political consciousness in the 1970's … Zabantsundu in King William's Town. He…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… NLF and was imprisoned on Robben Island for 10 years. Upon his release, he did extensive work on language policy and … Africa. He is the recipient of the…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… the Congress of the People held in Kliptown because of his restriction order. In 1963 Slovo skipped the country to … 1990 by the then state president F.W De…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… husband) was the target of the bombing because of his prior involvement in anti-apartheid politics. He was banned in South Africa and had initially taken his…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… British colony of Natal. The Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the … the late Mahatma Gandhi for having…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… 1998 and offered a large reward for information leading to his capture. Police further linked Chauke to 17 murders and … in 2000, he converted to Islam and…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… so by May 7. On Sunday, 10 May 1998, Luyt resigned from his position and cited three reasons for his resignation. He could not work with an executive that…
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… school at Robertson and Carnarvon. He continued with his studies at the University of Stellenbosch and completed his BSc degree in Agriculture. KÁƒÂƒÂ¼hn…
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… possessions. Sekhukhune did not accept British claims over his territory. By March 1878 drums of war were beating again … was routed with heavy casualties…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… second attempt and was meant to put to rest all doubt on his earlier findings. Speke’s first expedition to Africa was … River. However, when he returned to…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and often naiveimages record the … and economically divided South Africa. One of his…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… stripped of the presidency in 1993 when a referendum ended his reign. In 1994 Bakili Muluzu succeeded Banda as president … is believed he could have been at…
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… handed over by the TRC. The documents contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black … a suspended sentence for refusing to…
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… Banda , were detained without trial. In 1960, following his release, Banda fled to London, where with Kenneth Kaunda … In 1960 British Prime Minister, Harold…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… as President; however Donges died before he could take his Presidential seat in office. Fouche’s place as president … South Africa; Fouche was the only State…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is indeed a singular honour today to deliver a … 1925 in Benoni, Transvaal, into a…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… in each student or apprentice ... Each selects his [her] colors and creates his [her] own design: no design is ever re-used, although … one of the only male…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… more confidence after reading Simpson’s book. They are not his. Rather, Simpson is careful to reserve his own judgment, preferring to tell his readers the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re-establishes his photography business - Industrial Photography (Pty) Ltd - in Cape Town . Photographer, Ernest Cole…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… the Union of South Africa." 30 Cronin's work was fueled by his belief that the Native was quickly disappearing. He is … Kumalo tells a story about running…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… trying to create a new telegraph but when he called for his assistant after spilling something on is clothes, his assistant was able to hear his voice over…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… reminded its convocation: “In the 1970s and 1980s, some of his most haunting photographs came to provide complex … UCT executive, Goldblatt “could not be…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… seeing to it that the African is deprived for all time of his inherent right to control his country effectively, of seeing to it that whatsoever new … about…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… for which Bram Fischer gave so much, we can pay tribute to his dedication to both law and justice, without any sense of … library of Bram's grandfather…