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EventANC leads march through central Durban
… a few days after Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini called on his loyal subjects to boycott elections. Zwelithini further told his subjects that the interim…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Olympics after he used the event for propaganda to promote his National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) and white … between Lutz Lang, the leading…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… of their means of production, had no alternative but to work for the "new owners" in order to survive. In the course … would still be invalid. For a person…
VI - The Inquest
… be instituted in the Steve Biko affair. Two months after his death the inquest on Steve Biko began on 14 November in … Act and the decision in the case of…
PlaceAogutoas, Village near Port Nolloth
… old man'. Its location was marked by Bartolomeu Dias on his epic voyage around the Cape, in 1487. It was the last landfall sighted before a wild storm blew…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… crowd greeting him at Kulungugu, Northern Region in Ghana. His rule in Ghana was becoming progressively oppressive. Four … Detention Act, which he had used…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… He showed a talent for music from an early age and his first attempt at composition was in 1899. Most of his songs were widely acclaimed and are still…
EventFuneral service of Wilton Mkwayi takes place in Eastern Cape
… William's Town. He was awarded this honour because of his extra-ordinary credentials and contribution to building a free and democratic South Africa. His…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… and billionaire paid the sum of R5 million to secure his residence in South Africa. His responsibilities were assigned to former ANC Youth League …
EventKenyan men arrested as part of the continuing crackdown by British authorities
… was chief Luka from Lari, who was known for ill-treating his own people as an indication of his loyalty to the British government. …
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot in the head by a gunman.
… of Uganda and later president. In 1969, an attempt on his life was made when he was shot at while attending a UPC … opposition parties and adopted an…
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… himself as a hero…Matthews abandoned the ship to save his own skin and present himself as a principled person”. … enforcer-in-chief‚” it added. “He was happy…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
… single “Doc Shebeleza” was released, which was essentially his breakthrough track.[3] He was awarded the “Most Gifted … South African Music Awards.[5]…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… July 1789 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in England. He spent his spare time studying, especially subjects like … he became an assistant at a school. He went on…
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… the fourteen Years of working for the Government, he and his team developed the Republican Style (also known as … Wilhelmiens), Designing numerous…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… officer in Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). According to Lalla, in his amnesty request, this bomb was intended to sabotage … kill unsuspecting civilians. Lalla was…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… declared independence from Britain in 1965. During his address to the nation he declared: We Rhodesians have … Following a bitter bush war with black…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… became active in underground structures of the ANC until his arrest in 1964. He was charged with sabotage and … the PAC. He was sent to Robben Island where…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… 1915. He is the son of Abraham and Alida Sachs-Eban. His parents moved to Great Britain while he was still a … worked at the Jewish Agency for Palestine…
EventNelson Mandela’s son, Thembekile is killed in a car accident
… Mandela and Evelyn Mase was killed in a car accident while his father was serving life sentence on Robben Island. … Mandela, who always played a brother…
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… Transvaal (now North West Province). He attended his first singing lessons at the age of ten. After completing his education and military training, Botha…
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… guard Bulelani Vukwani shot dead eleven people, including his girlfriend, and wounded five at Mdantsane Suburb in East … to the scene of the original murder…
EventCuban Foreign Minister visits South Africa
… Roberto Robaina, visited South Africa at the invitation of his South African counterpart Alfred Nzo. They met in Cape … international and domestic context…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… arrested and served life imprisonment on Robben Island for his involvement in MK. Mkwayi had to fight Robben Island … for twenty years for the right to marry…
EventSA footballer, Steven Pienaar is born in Johannesburg
… has made a name for himself internationally. Pienaar began his professional career with Ajax Cape Town in 1999. In 2009 … and English club Tottenham Hotspur…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… plucky action of Reverend Scott, a white clergyman, and his equally white fellow-workers, who have undertaken to … of a worthy father, the late Parsee…
Chapter 5
… people did not consciously formulate their tasks and work out a programme of struggle against the oppressor on 'a … rivalry between organisations. Each…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… University and where he obtained a BA degree. He began his career as a journalist in 1965 when he started working … part time at the SABC in Cape Town. He is…
EventNelson Mandela is buried in the Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, in his home in Johannesburg. He was born in Mvezo village near … he attended Primary school and was…
EventTwo men are sentenced to death for petrol executions
… Matsepane were found guilty of burning Solomon Maake and his son in September 1985, after they were accused of being … stoned. He also ordered Mr Jack…