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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…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… from participating in international games because of its apartheid policy. The agree in Harare followed a meeting …
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…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… and the first minister was Tobias Johannes Herold. During his ministry (1812-23) he did pioneer "work, and his name is Commemorated in the congregation of…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Dr Naicker and Dadoo were received in audience by His Excellency, Azzam the Secretary-General of the League of … Drs Naicker and Dadoo were received in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
… Schoeman in 1898. He named the dam the Sophia Dam, after his wife. Unfortunately, the engineer who designed the dam wall made a mistake in his calculations…
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…
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…