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EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
… report. The Denon Commission of Inquiry found that no one whose name featured in their investigation had breached …
EventNative Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers
… with the Cape's native population is overhelmingly one of conquest. However every so often, the settlers would …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… and went on for a further three years. He was the only one imprisoned under this clause. In 1969 he was put under …
EventThe PAC is formed
… (ANC). They echoed the sentiments of Anton Lembede, one of the founders of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), who …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His …
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… began Solitude Clothing. Thomson and his wife Carla had one son Mathew, who died accidentally in 2006. He is regarded …
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… useful. After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, Masego was one of 10 722 South Africans who were taken to a German …
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… Soviet-occupied post-World War II Germany. This event was one of the first international crises to occur during the …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… on Hiroshima killed as many as 140,000 people, while the one dropped on Nagasaki killed as many as 90,000 people. …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… on township communities, mostly in the Vaal/Reef area. One such incidence occurred on 4 September 1990, when the …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… date of Bacher's announcement is given as 14 February in one source. …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an effective voice in government, they are told …
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… The Gramstown Journal, one of South Africa's important and influential early …
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… in Algoa Bay, (now Port Elizabeth) on board of twenty-one ships, the first being the Chapman. They numbered about …
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… published in 1974. Following three other publications, one of which won Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught …
EventBotha found Guilty
… era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a one year prison sentence, suspended for five years, which …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… lack of charisma from the party's national leadership as one of the reasons why he was leaving the NP. Another reason …
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… by extreme levels of violence meted out to the workers. One of such incident, which occurred in early 1900s, was …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… were eventually consolidated in various mining companies, one of which is Anglo American. …
EventStart of the Muslim community’s Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… another three days. The Tana Baru cemetery uprising was one of the most significant political events in the 19th …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… first sung publicly in 1899. The new South African flag is one of the 'youngest' flags and is the only six-coloured …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… hour. Later that month McCall was killed as police raided one of their safe houses in Houghton. Heyl fled overseas and …
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… 1960s and 1970s, but the momentum dropped in the 1980s. One of the outcomes of the boycott was the revival of student …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950: One of the most infamous of all security laws during the …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… as Eastern Cape). He was the youngest of five boys and one girl. Sobukwe was exposed to literature at an early age …
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
… took place between 1873 and 1874, 50 years after the first one. The Ashanti Kingdom had its headquarters in Kumasi, …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… of the road. Two events of the same nature, before this one, happened on the same road where 330 people lost their …
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… Raymond Dart was born in Queensland Australia in 1893. One of nine siblings, he grew up on a farm herding cattle. He …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… republic.” On 3 April 2010, he was murdered at his farm by one of his workers. …