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EventA Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 143 people crashes some twenty-five miles from Lagos, killing all on board
… "the error in judgment by the pilot of ADK 096 continuing his turn heading to 330 M to avoid TIX 185” …
EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
… Abebe hadn't fully recovered from the surgery and limped his way down the stairs. However, the reception Abebe …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… the national wishes of the Ambonesians. Luns was in his position from 1952 to1971, making him the record office …
EventPretoria receives city status
… Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. Andries Pretorius became a hero …
EventHosni Mubarak, President of Egypt is born
… East and is a close ally of the United States. Among his most prominent accomplishments is maintaining stability …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… conference, ANC president Nelson Mandela indicates that his organisation will not insist on elections in 1993 if …
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… Vorster Prison after spending 27 years in the gaol. After his release he toured extensively outside and within the …
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
… mysteriously died in a plane crash in South Africa, met his South African counterpart P.W. Botha at Songo, in Tete …
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… were released after Judge K van Dijkhorst delivered his judgment. The judge released them on the grounds that …
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… of the 1838 battle and Zulu culture in general. In his address, Mtshali expressed the view that the proper …
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… of Sifiso Nkabinde, who had been expelled by the ANC for his involvement in the very violence under discussion. This …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… Louis Botha again became prime minister, but many of his followers voted for the new party under General J.B.M. …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… he was one of the architects of the Union of South Africa. His vision of South Africa included both British and Dutch. …
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Wood (nee Hoole). After …
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
… who dived into the water to try and rescue her also lost his life in the process. …
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… the Great Fish River but was forced to turn back home by his crew. It was on this homewards journey that he reached …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… killed by the Ciskei Defence Force on 7 September 1992. In his statement the ANC President, Nelson Mandela regarded the …
EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
… was kidnapped by unknown assailants and brutally murdered. His body was later found at a rubbish dump in the nearby …
EventJan van Riebeeck, the first Dutch governor of the Cape Colony, dies
… landed in three ships, with 82 men and 8 women, including his wife Maria de la Quellerie. He landed two ships (The …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… their release from Robben Island. Through PEBCO Ngoyi and his comrades took up campaigns on community issues of rent …
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… Congress. Wilhelm Verwoerd risked being alienated by his family and friends for his decision. He was not even welcome at Stellenbosch, the … he was called a…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… Africa. We pay homage to the outgoing Chairman of the OAU, His Excellency President Moussa Traore, who has so ably led this Organisation during this past…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… all, no reform was even brought about by an adult without his having considered the matter in his youth and reflected on it. Nothing can be made new again ……
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
… August 2019, Dale Steyn South African cricketer announced his retirement from the Test format. He made his Test debut against England in December 2004. In…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… the settlement, he was called Abraham, he was fleeing from his master in Batavia, he arrived as stowaway on 2 March … with an European woman he would be…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… Many Afrikaners must feel indebted to General Hertzog for his two-stream policy which started a schism in the white … the institution of chieftainship which…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… century of this millennium, in which he sought to educate his fellow Romans about the Africans of the day. Here is what … activities. No longer sliding…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… of the Act was the eviction of many, often resulting in death to both people and their livestock. The cutting of ties … for himselfor to procure it directly…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… that Mr. A. I. Kajee has written over 7,000 letters during his fourteen-months' term of office. The incoming secretary … (Further Provision) Bill. That Bill…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… among other things: the expulsion of the white man and his yoke of misrule from their midst; -Negro autonomy (" I … wages have remained at about the pre-war…