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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
… to address this important meeting convened to deal with one of the most critical challenges facing all nations of the … basic condition of man”¦ is a…
ArchiveSouth Africa Advisory Committee Report, 10 February report to Secretary of State
… which dealt with United States policy toward South Africa, one of the provisions of the Executive order directed the …
ArchiveDialectic of Higher Education for the Colonised: the case of Non-White Universities in South Africa
… to two-fold functions, a conservative and a progressive one. It can be viewed as a custodian of societal values or …
ArchiveThe birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… One day in July 1968 a group of students formed a separate …
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation struggle materials …
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the Transvaal. It was …
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and is one of the few such structures surviving in the old …
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
… reason was to encourage European political integration. One hundred and ten thousand military personnel are engaged …
EventSculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema
… used to give an explanation why he made his sculptures. As one of South Africa's best known sculptors internationally, …
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Zimbabwe African People's Union), are to be merged under one command after the political affiliation of the two groups …
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
… Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front …
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
… 'Sea fishes of Southern Africa', which is regarded as one of the most comprehensive books on fishes in the world. …
EventIEC extends election dates
… Electoral Commission (IEC) to extend polling by one day in areas plagued by voting problems. These included …
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… resources like diamond and today the country has achieved one of the highest per capita income rates in Africa. …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique begin discussions which lead to the creation of a cross-border conservation park
… upheld his vision of a protected wilderness. It is now one of the largest conservation parks in the world. …
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
… operators and accommodation options. Walvis Bay is not part of South Africa, it is a City in Namibia that serves as … 432 (1978) , which declared Walvis Bay…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
… International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 9: The Kennedy visit, the truth
… the visit by Senator Edward Kennedy to South Africa, and one question which stands out and that is, Why was he …
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the …
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… principal of the the University of Natal. He is considered one of the great educators to emerge from South Africa. He …
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
… is a former cricket player who played test cricket and One Day Internationals. He was an all-rounder with a …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… Kenneth Kaunda, the country’s first president, proclaimed one-party rule at independence. . Their independence came …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… which had rejected multiparty rule in favour of one party rule and scientific socialism. …
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most violent in the world. COMSA, a fifteen-member …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive …
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… for his actions, a requirement for amnesty. Nieuwoudt was one of five former security policemen who applied for amnesty …
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… to South Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was one of the first staff members at the South African College …
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… One month prior to the establishment of the democratic …
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… five years' imprisonment for kidnapping four youths and a one year sentence related to a charge of being an accessory …
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… Robert Heights after Lord Roberts, a British soldier and one of the best commanders of the 19th century. …