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EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… peaceful world. South Africans have been awarded the prize on three different occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi … first Black African to be awarded the…
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… On 14 January 2002, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe … and Sisi Khampempe to Zimbabwe to obtain information on the constitutional and legal problems…
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Biko was arrested on the outskirts of the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977 and taken to apartheid…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 May 1902, thirty delegates from each…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter … Cerebral Malaria. Sisulu, better known as Lungi, was born on 20 August 1966 in Moscow to Max…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… artist and writer Hilda Bernstein. She passes away on the 9th September 2006 in Cape Town at the age of 91 from … be elected as councillor to public office…
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… building the lighthouse, but construction eventually began on 1 April 1847. On 8 January 1848, the foundation stone was laid in the … 18,000 cubic feet of…
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration, and was premised on closer co-operation between African heads of state. Some … of apartheid, South Africa was…
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African … for representation in the country's…
PlaceSouth Africa
… National Archives' Directorate .) The flag was first used on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a synopsis of … round of the FIFA Women’s World Cup…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… to this people, and continued with them till his death ... On revisiting this kraal in 1819 ... I found the settlement … was fenced during the middle of 1894…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… foreign and local journalists, the first since his release on Sunday 11 February 13 February 1990 (Q) When President De … have over the demand of one person,…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… birth of the African National Congress a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of Africa, … of the soil.” At a meeting of the YMCA…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… and only talked about the coloured people, impressing on me that the Medical Aid Society's function was to give the … the workers, his determination to fight…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… to resign over millions of rand of improper state spending on his private home in Nkandla, the 73-year-old’s grip on power seems like it should be weaker…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… and its first church was built in the town in 1863. Only on 21 December 1894 did the church board decide to gather … The corner stone of the church was laid…
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea in an … troops to support the invasion, should they be repulsed. On the day of the invasion, the United…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… from 1938 to 1939. She also wrote a series of articles on the South African film industry for the Cape Times between … Cape Town which she completed in 1946…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… journal, Searchlight South Africa, which focussed on a Marxist perspective. The journal was concerned with the … situation of the South African economy with…
EventPresident Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
… On 8 May 2015, South African President, Jacob Zuma, visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the … and implementation of the…
EventSouth African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe is born
… On 24 October 1958, South African storyteller Nokugcina Elsie … and universities around the world. She also appeared on SABC television series called Gcina…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… On 9 June 1983, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) operatives, Jerry … and Thabo Motaung were executed for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC…
EventMarie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch
… the Protea plant. She obtained a PhD in 1971 with a thesis on autecology and a variation of the King Protea (Protea Cynaroides). She did extensive research…
EventMandela discharged from Pretoria hospital
… admitted to Mediclinic heart hospital in Pretoria on the 8th of June 2013 for a recurring lung infection. His … including a large medical team from the…
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… the most important events in the history of South Africa. On 31 March 1900 De Wet dealt the British a severe blow when … appointed De Wet as field-general…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… of Racial Discrimination is commemorated annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people … Proclaiming the Day in 1966,…
EventGambia gains independence
… On this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation … and the North Atlantic Ocean. It is the smallest nation on the African continent, and one of…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… and Umkhonto we Sizwe formed. Her parents were always on the run from the police. In 1977 Winnie Mandela was banned … to neighbouring Swaziland to finish her…
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
… On 28 May 1881, Daniel Francois Malherbe was born in Dal … and En die Wawiele Rol (1945; "And the Wagon Wheels Roll On") a story describing the Great Trek…
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
… mandatory, and other sanctions were still not in place. On 23 July 1970, the United Nations (UN) Security Council … of its embargo against South Africa…