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EventSiyabonga Eugene (Bhele) Nomvete, SA footballer who was winner of the Kick Off Magazine Soccer Player of the Season, 98/99 &
… 2 December 1977 in KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal. Nomvete began his professional soccer career in lower league clubs in …
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… Coast management in 1897. Led by Osei Tutu together with his chief priest, Ashanti changed the constitution and the …
EventThe condition of Edwin Smith, the youngest baby in SA to undergo open-heart surgery, improves
… According to the hospital, the boy turned blue as soon as his mother delivered him. During the three-hour long …
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… - MK’s best year and most favourable casualty rate ever. Death of the ‘Grenade Squads’ If Zikomo was a success, the … [the township serving Nigel] we didn’t…
PlaceNamibia
… the Nama resistance for a further two years. In 1907, the death of Marengo brought about the end of the war of … forces, and had been given a gun in…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Therefore, segregation would protect the Whites. His collaborator, D. F. Malan , suggested segregation would … Apartheid oppression started before birth and…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… was exiled in the mid-'60s after the publication abroad of his book documenting the social experience of blacks in South … dive in Cape Town where, as far as…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… Fishes' for whom the chairman of the Labour Party pleaded his detestation as a round for soliciting votes, whereas … affairs Comrade DG Wolton, General…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… Church, Boksburg during 1889, and it was partly his assiduous attention to the Scots Miners in Germiston that … of Jesus to Zachus and Cleopas, and were…
Testimony of the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress, Ermelo, before the Eastern Transvaal Land Committee,January 8, 1918
… very unpleasant. What we object to is that a native and his family living on a white man's farm should have to be … to live among the white people. When a…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… involving equal rights for kaffirs, or the black taking his place alongside the white: first on the industrial field, … socialistic leanings: and Mr…
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… not see who killed Mr Mnyalatyo, but he saw injuries on his head. They were distracted from killing Mr Kekana, who …
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… (ANC). Plaatjie’s contributions to literature include his translation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Julius …
Zindzi Mandela is born
… African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… and was involved in sabotage operations until 1988. His main targets were government buildings, economic …
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… Stem van Suid-Afrika (The Call of South Africa), died at his home 'Arbeidsgenot' in Oudtshoorn. Die Stem, and its …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… the freedom of mobility of the migrant worker and his family, it further created additional difficulties within …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… years was imposed. Naidoo, Secretary-General of COSATU, his deputy Mufamadi and Mayekiso, Secretary-General of the …
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… leader, Walter Sisulu, denied allegations levelled at his party by the South African parliament and press that the …
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… In his address to the senate foreign relations committee, United …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
… political consultant Ari Ben-Menashe. After the verdict his supporters cheered and danced outside the court, though …
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
… on the outside and cut the South African off, forcing his left wheel off the ground. As a result Van Dyk's manager …
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… but former State President F.W. de Klerk relinquished his NNP membership, saying the party has gone too far in …
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… Freedom Party (IFP) members in KwaZulu Natal. After his expulsion from the ANC, Nkabinde joined the United …
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… (UDM) on 27 September 1997. In later years Meyer resigned his position and left politics completely to pursue other …
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… by the finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson …
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street complex from being …
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
… during the South African War (Second Anglo Boer War). His reasons were that the war was between the English and …
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… and supplied Charles Darwin with valuable information for his work On the Origin of Species (1859). She was elected to …