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EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… the notorious former police officer Gideon Nieuwoudt, for his role in the death of Steve Biko in 1977. In a seven page … had failed to demonstrate a…
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… Yar’ Adua’s inauguration ceremony was successful despite his rivals’ disputing the April election’s results. His main rivals were MuhammadBuhari of the All…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… signed to the Mabala Noise record label. Nasty C released his first mixtape titled “One Kid a Thousand Coffins” in May … Hip Hop Album”, and “Song of the…
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… as a second dwelling house. It was later occupied by his son Fred Trautman who,. after the birth of his son in 1878, enlarged it by the addition of two extra…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… the fourteen years of working for the government, he and his team developed the Republican Style (also known as … Wilhelmiens), designing numerous…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… Smith accepted the principle of majority rule in his country. Despite this major breakthrough there were no … except an announcement by Smith on 24 September…
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… was born in 1919 in the southern region of Katanga. His father was said to be the first Congolese millionaire, … battle Tshombe's soldiers and the hundreds…
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
… and shops in the Overberg region that display the work of local painters, sculptors, jewellers and …
PlaceFourteen Streams
… reached Fourteen Streams on 1 December 1890. Although this work had originally been commissioned by the Cape Government, …
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… War, when the company 'Prentice and Mackey' started work on the present site in December 1904. The prison was …
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… and directing films. After the war she continued to work in the film industry and produced a number of …
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… The 63-page document was the culmination of 18 months of work by the Constitutional Assembly with Cyril Ramaphosa, …
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… constructed against the Northern site wall. Restoration work undertaken by Gordon Verhoef & Krause in 2011, included …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… there are progressive developments in a number of Latin American countries; and there is an upsurge of public opinion …
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… occupant. Admiral Lord Nelson is presumed to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of …
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… Africa (GWU). The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to … the activities of the union. The second…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… in watercolour. He also produced some wood engravings. His early works were ancient in effect, but this changed as he progressed further in his career. …
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… Party in Orlando Township, Soweto , passed away at his Orlando East home in Soweto. He was given a rousing civic … buried at the Doornkop Cemetery. Mpanza…
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… the desecration of Black graves by right-wing extremists. His colleague, Dudley Saunders, was also stabbed, but survived with serious injuries to his hands,…
EventAWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested
… (AWB), Eugene Terre'Blanche, and nine of his followers were arrested and charged with public violence. … place after a long police investigation. Terre…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… pass away in office. A committee was set up by the ANC and his family to make arrangements for his funeral at KwaMashu Stadium in Durban on 30 October. …
PlaceBelvidere, Knysna
… He retired to Knysna the following year, where he devoted his time to the development of his estate on the Knysna Lagoon, and to the construction of …
PlaceJock of the Bushveld, Monument in Barberton
… Bullterrier cross, was immortalized in a book by his owner, Sir Percy FitzPatrick, who wrote about his exploits with Jock, while working as a transport rider…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… abakwaLanga; ibuyis' inhloko yadi' amadoda! His Majesty the King, The Mayor of KwaDukuza, Mr Siyanda … was around these hills and valleys that King Shaka…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… who will submit to "traditional Bantu Principles" in all his professional and commercial dealings. In other words a … rather than starve to death the people…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… to accept the president's belated apology. Yet, all his actions in response to the public protector's report … not distance himself from these misleading…
EventBurundi gains independence from Belgium
… Tutsi retaliations. Subsequently, Mwambutsa was deposed by his son, Ntaré V, in 1966. Less than a year after he toppled his father Ntaré was overthrown in a…
EventAllan Boesak marries Elna Botha
… moderator of the Uniting Reformed Church and had divorced his wife Dorothy, by whom he had four children. Boesak had resigned from the church before his…
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
… to Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Kelehe dedicated his win to his late baby daughter who died at the age of eighteen months …
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I’Ons (85) dies
… Middlesex, England on 15 November 1802 and, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Cape Colony in 1834. They settled in … Cape, shortly before the sixth…