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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. …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… in Pretoria to protest against pass laws. This march was one of the organisation's most important campaigns. …
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… and trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks that opened …
PlaceKafanchan, Nigeria
… Found in the Southern part of the Kaduna State, which is located in the middle belt … Located in the southern part of the Kaduna State, which is located in…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… The state prevents Walter Sisulu from taking an active part in ANC affairs, Tambo becomes the Secretary General of … of the House of Commons in London, the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… take advantage of the amnesty offered to those who take part in the commando against the San by Governor van den … of Stellenbosch, Drakenstein and…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… its founding site down the road to what was a boxing gym. Part of the move process involved a concert starting at the …
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… decision to eject apartheid South Africa from taking part in the soccer world cup in 1967 due to its policy of …
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… giant and genius, a patriot who devoted the greater part of his life to the liberation of his fatherland. His …
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… giant and genius, a patriot who devoted the greater part of his life to the liberation of his fatherland. His was …
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… it asked him to join the organisation formally and become part of the local government. As a ward councillor, Bonhomme …
Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998
… of the Mohammed Commission. This, we believe constitutes a part of the pool of information that the Mozambican judicial …
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… was only through persistence, tact and persuasion on the part of those who fought for its preservation that the …
Address at the High-Level Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Nepad, New York, September 16, 2002
… for all humanity because the poverty of any people in any part of the globe is the poverty of all humanity. In this …
Address at the launch of the Kruger National Park Centenary Celebrations Skukuza, 26 March 1998
… and our rich cultural and natural heritage, you are part of our endeavours to create a better life for all our …
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… including an Adjacent Farm known as Klaarwater. It was on part of this Farm that the Community of St. Wendolins was …
Former South African President P W De Klerk’s Manifesto for the New South Africa
… worship, That all the people of our country should take part in this endeavour, That we, to this end, subscribe to …
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… in Bloemfontein which kept him at work for the greater part of the 1960s. Later his reputation was such that that he …
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… V. S. C. Pather, S. R. Naidoo and S. Rustomjee on the one hand, and A. Christopher, P. R. Pather , S. L. Singh, and … a stipulation that he would serve in…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba (1992 ) Mashaba took over for one qualifier against the Republic of Congo but returned … his two tumultuous head coaching stints…