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Danie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m.
Filbert Bayi, Tanzanian 3,000m runner (Olympic silver 1980), is born.
Schools re-open, but 93,000 pupils continue to boycott classes.
About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike.
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso and Nobantu Ntebe…
UN Security Council agrees to send 15 000 peacekeeping troops to Liberia.
UN Security Council agrees to send 15 000 peacekeeping troops to Liberia.
The Department of Posts and Telecommunications dismisses 14 000 striking postal workers.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain sends 30 000 additional troops to South Africa.
Litemaster workers win R800 000 in biggest claim awarded by court
Cave paintings, dated 6 000 BC, are discovered in the Uweinat Mountains, Egypt.
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
The Government of the Republic of South Africa announced in Parliament that 18,000 people had been arrested and detained since the declaration of the State of…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, the United Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to…
EventEarly jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
On 16 April 2004, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old was discovered in the Blombos cave, overlooking the Indian Ocean, near Stilbaai. The…
EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
On 26 June 1954 Walter Sisulu addressed a meeting of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Communal Hall in Johannesburg. At the meeting he a spurred…
EventKenyan runner, Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes
Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki surprised the world when he became the first man to run 10 000 Meters in less than 27 minutes. Ondieki was taking part in the…
i NUM inikeze nge R30 000 kumaxhoba ezixholoxholo (article written in Xhosa language)
3 000 people gather in the church at Groutville to attend Luthuli’s memorial service.
Mussolini announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers.
A twelve week strike by some 22 000 members of South African Transport Services
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000…
Nightwatchmen - employers offer R17.00 a week
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
This Saturday, former District Six residents and their descendants will campaign for the area to become a National Heritage site. District Six was declared a…
EventAfter being allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amateur Athletics Union, Matthews Motshwarateu, breaks the national 5,000m record
Black athlete Matthews Motshwarateu, recently allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amatuer Athletics Union, breaks the national 5 000m record in Stellenbosch…
Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.
British Air Force stages 1 000-bomber raid on Bremen, Germany, in World War II.
About 80 000 scientists attend an international congress on HIV/Aids in Florence, Italy.
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
On 24 June 1973, South African athlete Danie Malan set a new world record in the middle distance 1000m event in Munich. Malan was raised in the Boland area of…