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EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… around 9 per cent. NUM had originally demanded an average 25 per cent increase, but accepted less after the Chamber of …
EventThe Great Comet of 1901
… in colour and remained visible for the next month (until 25 May). The comet was first spotted by astronomers at the …
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… in the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security. On 25 May 2014, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu became the Minister of …
EventNigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born
… travelling in crashed into a lagoon in a mangrove jungle 25 miles northeast of Lagos. There were no survivors. Ake’s …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… forced to live on shore at Table Bay for four months 1647 25 March, The Dutch ship Nieuwe Haerlem is wrecked in Table … the Khoi-Khoi over to his side by…
PlaceElandsfontein Farm, Pretoria
… Our farm, Elandsfontein, is about 18 km (25 min drive) from Pretoria, about 25 km (45 min drive) from Johannesburg; and about 25 min drive from Jan Smuts…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… from the Orange Free State without compensation. Act 25 of 1891 - The proviso that indentured Indian labourers … against illegal Asiatic entries. 5)…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Act, Act No. 11 of 1924, provides for job reservation. 21-25 April, The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) convenes … White employment by earmarking…
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… On 25 October 1993, South Africa was invited to rejoin the …
EventNational Housing Department introduces new plan
National Housing Department Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, introduced a new housing plan to the media. The plan had been endorsed by the cabinet and entailed the…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines for more than 25 and 27 years respectively. Apart from business …
EventIdi Amin Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda
… Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda since 25 February and suggests they leave the country. Almost three …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… This followed the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by President PW Botha in 36 of South Africa’s …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… Minister Jimmy Kruger. Still hundreds flocked to the 25-September-1974 rally, leading to the arrest of most Black …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… openly criticises the ANC’s policy of political alliances. 25 August, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for a National … a brain injury sustained during…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… the instructions of the NIC to attain complete freedom. 25 February 1946 The Durban City Council (DCC) resolves, … with the Second Reading of the Bill…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… release an article entitled ‘ There are no ANC Camps ’ 25 June, Nelson Mandela meets with Queen Elizabeth II at … 82 at the time, as she has him round for an…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 6: Commenced: 25 March 1991 QwaQwa: Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed … Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone…
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… at 9:30pm. South African artillery alone fired 62 000 25-ponder shells. The battle lasted from 23 October to 4 …
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
At its Special Congress in May, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for three days of national protest against the Labour Relations…
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… trialists were taken to Robben Island, where he spent 25 years before being released in 1989. …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… they were each sentenced to a term of imprisonment and 25 lashes. On 20 January a white farmer from Camperdown was …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… guerrilla campaign to overthrow Portuguese colonial rule. 25 April 1974 Portuguese colonial rule ends after a coup …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… economy. At the height of the Depression in 1933, nearly 25% of the Nation's total work force, 12,830,000 people, were …
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… in a hood on the 10th floor of the building around October 25 1971. He said he was sure it was Timol. During the visit … Essop testified that this must have…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… upon the school’s top three graduates. Xuma addressed the 25 May 1916 gathering on ‘Problems in Poultry Raising’. On 13 … Xuma agreed and would remain in…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command will be hosting National Spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. This event will take place at…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… Durban. His last appearance on television screens was on 25 October playing against Ajax Cape Town in Telkom Knockout …
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… declared a Historical Monument.The dam has a capacity of 25,200,000 cubic metres, and a surface Area of 3.572 square …
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… was of a collection of his paintings spanning a period of 25 years, which was held at the Standard Bank Gallery in …