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EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… in the Cape Colony (now known as Eastern Cape). He was one of South Africa’s most distinguished nutritional …
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The …
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… Kozonguisi of the South African United Front. The AAM was one of Britain's most triumphant international solidarity …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC). Dadoo was also one of the founders of the Non-European United Front (NEUF), …
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… discrimination and human rights abuses in South Africa. One of its functions is to provide free legal advice and …
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external …
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… united under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front. One of the first steps in creating the front was to establish …
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… by which human dignity is adversely affected, and whereby one political group is detrimentally suppressed by another, …
EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… next morning to their final destination in Mozambique. No one was killed in these attacks but a security guard in Sasol …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… apply in the Transvaal Province with immediate effect for one year. The government amended the Internal Security Act in …
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… company has diversified into other products. Putty is only one of the Pratley Groups inventions. …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… to Apartheid was not a military in nature, but a social one that comprised of people and organisations within and …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South …
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… do grievous bodily harm. The case arose from the fact that one of the kidnapped youths, 14-year-old Stompie Sepei, had …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that …
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… by agents located in Zimbabwe . Philip Masiza Conjwayo, one of the agents was a former member of Zimbabwe’s Special …
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… 1982 and 1984 for crimes of violence against Whites, while one White man had been executed for violence against Blacks. …
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… a year. Their survival, as well as the written accounts of one crew member, Leendert Janszen, convinced the DEIC that …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… serve for two terms as the head of state. Mandela felt one term was enough as he had already laid the foundation for …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… pioneer, Mahatma Gandhi. Naidoo was hailed by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… A number of rebellions were staged against German rule, one of which resulted in the Herero Genocide of 1904. The …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… South Africa he opened a school in Sophiatown and became one of the first significant art teachers in the country. As …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… Free State, Natal and the Cape) the latter was the only one where citizens other than Whites could vote. But even …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… 1877. This rail link between Transvaal en Delagoa Bay was one of the most important purposes of both President Burgers …
EventBob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
… returned to his family in South Africa. Bob Woolmer was one of the most highly regarded cricket coaches in the world. …
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… making South Africa the first African country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… Stadium in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. He remained one of the country’s greatest middle- and long-distance …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… a multi-cultural and economically divided South Africa. One of his best achievements was when he won the Standard …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… world. Pemba was also a good writer and wrote two plays, one of them being the well-known Nonqause. He later produced …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… to buy his freedom and settled in the United Kingdom. One of his slave masters had taught Equaino to write …