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EventFormer South African football coach Clive Barker is born
Legendary former Bafana Bafana coach is born in Durban, Kwazulu Natala. The ‘Dog’ as he is nicknamed, led the South African Football team to their first…
The fifty-two-member Organisation of African Unity begins a conference in Algeria to address African problems ranging from a $2
Document 108 - African National Congress to be Revived: Leaders’ Co-ordinating Committee’s Work, South African Worker, 4 September 1937
The African National Congress agrees to “use its good offices” to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby i
The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) condemns the South African government’s plan for Black works councils.
The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai
A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form the Southern African Development Coordination Conf
… Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook 2001/02 , Pretoria: GCIS, p. 278 | …
Gen. Bantu Holomisa announces the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, South African Communist Party, South African Students’ Organisatio
BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
… early art training in Paris in 1890, and arrived in South Africa with his father in 1902. He returned to study in … Wiles held the first of several solo…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… literature. Together with his childhood friend, Johannes Africa De Beer, he read every book he could get his hands on, … often focused on their shared dream…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's Prince Edward Islands, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. The signal matched…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
Smiso Zwane, stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along ZamaniXolo stage name DoktaSpiZee, two forms the…
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… patient. She lived for 12 years afterwards. She was South Africa's fifth heart transplant recipient and the first woman …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… Tiro, Mashinini started reading about the history of Africa’s struggles, American slavery, the Human Rights … setting off a tumultuos student rebellion…
The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… of our multi-racial society. Under our conditions in South Africa violent struggle would probably leave a legacy of … fraudulently put forward a so-called…
Press statement, released by Nelson R. Mandela, Honorary Secretary of the All-in African National Council, June 26, 1961
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Congress of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU)
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… have screened off from each other Black and White in South Africa. Our knowledge of each other is scanty and most … Among whites one gets some day-dreaming…
BiographyLouis Botha
… and he was one of the architects of the Union of South Africa. His vision of South Africa included both British and Dutch. Botha was a leading … to control…
BiographyGladys Thomas
… Rage” was the first book of poetry to be banned in South Africa. She has written six plays, four of which were staged … Women Writers 1925-1989. University…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… boycotts. The political context of the struggle in South Africa being completely different from the struggles in other … as an interim measure, and that the…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… to the world; they captured the violence of South Africa so vividly that they were dubbed "The Bang-Bang Club." … at www.fanpop.com (Accessed: 17 July 2012) …
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… the third eldest in a family of six that included South Africa's former ambassador to Japan and senior Inkatha … fellow. She was also the first African woman…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… nationalists who ultimately came to power in South Africa in 1948, beginning a racist and oppressive apartheid … US permanent residency hopes, and returned…
BiographyHector Pieterson
… image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of the … June 16 has been observed as a public holiday…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech … published in various magazines and…
BiographyHarold Strachan
… Art Gallery collection and in private collections in South Africa. Strachan published a book called ‘Way Up, Way Out’ in … of an autobiographical trilogy…
BiographyPaul Konings
… in Tokoroa, New Zealand in 1958. Konings came to South Africa in 1975 to study at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts … were also published in Estate Wines of…