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EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… elected as Mozambique's first president. At the time of his death, Machel had been in power for 11 years. On the day … was returning from an African leaders’…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… British colony of Natal. The Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the … the late Mahatma Gandhi for having…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… 1998 and offered a large reward for information leading to his capture. Police further linked Chauke to 17 murders and … in 2000, he converted to Islam and…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… was fluent in a number of European languages, as well as his own Nama. Witbooi's grandfather and father were both … After a number of skirmishes with the…
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… school at Robertson and Carnarvon. He continued with his studies at the University of Stellenbosch and completed his BSc degree in Agriculture. KÁƒÂƒÂ¼hn…
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… possessions. Sekhukhune did not accept British claims over his territory. By March 1878 drums of war were beating again … was routed with heavy casualties…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… second attempt and was meant to put to rest all doubt on his earlier findings. Speke’s first expedition to Africa was … River. However, when he returned to…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and often naiveimages record the … and economically divided South Africa. One of his…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… stripped of the presidency in 1993 when a referendum ended his reign. In 1994 Bakili Muluzu succeeded Banda as president … is believed he could have been at…
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… Banda , were detained without trial. In 1960, following his release, Banda fled to London, where with Kenneth Kaunda … In 1960 British Prime Minister, Harold…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… as President; however Donges died before he could take his Presidential seat in office. Fouche’s place as president … South Africa; Fouche was the only State…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… occupied the lower parts of the hills. The king and his advisors were the decision making body in the state. Unit … -falling asleep or anything else -he gets…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… 36, who owned a restaurant in Sea Point, was hijacked with his wife Tjidi and their toddler in Adam Tas Road, Bothasig. … settlement on the East Rand. Nobody…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… seats 150, the Momentum which is for experimental theatre work, the Rendezvous which seats 260, the Transvalia which …
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… includes passing the exam with 70%, and submitting your work experience and CV. …
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… are earnestly requested that if they are escorted to work, they should offer no resistance, in the true spirit of …
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… doing, it must eventually (with the assistance of the CI) work out a decent theoretical picture. I think you will admit …
PlaceBeachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
… was flourishing in a riot of green! The way mangroves work is fascinating. At Beachwood you’ll find three types: …
58. Congress has sold our rights
… competing with you. On the other hand, our children and we work hard and till the soil, make a living, spend all our …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic's office
… foreign White expatriates opposed to any relaxing of apartheid principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb …
PlaceThe Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum
… Johannesburg's premier Tourist Attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the …
PlaceMoses Mabhida Stadium
… after one of the most dedicated freedom fighters of the apartheid regime, this has been voted the most popular …
PlaceOttery
… Town did not experience dramatic change after the end of apartheid. Government policy ensured that Schools and …
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… a better life to all. Our struggle to end colonialism and apartheid was never an end in itself. It was a starting point …
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… to facilitate a new constitutional dispensation for a post-apartheid South Africa. Established by the end of 1991, it …
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… thousands of South Africans, put two million people out of work and brought misery to families. The fire in Parliament … and indeed all the members of our…
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
… through the mountains. He asked Johannes Retief to act as his guide through the mountains. Other members of the group … Centre , that opened in 2007 after…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… in social stratifications, notwithstanding the uplifting work of missionary stations. Sport and Recreation Card …
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… Inkosi Sigweje the previous leader, related the history of his people and their struggle to find land security in an … to the Umsundusi River to a place…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… Cradock (1811-14). He renamed the sub-magistracy after his father-in-law, the Earl of Clanwilliam . In 1820, efforts … poet of the Second Afrikaans Language…