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PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… off from the world. In 1979, Macias was overthrown by his nephew Teodoro Obiang Nguema. By the time Macias' rule … had either fled Equatorial Guinea or been…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… authority, was called to explain the Act to the people. His refusal to address the group angered the people to such an extent that they destroyed his house…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… Pierre Steyn. On 18 December General Steyn presented his preliminary findings to President De Klerk and senior … of Steyn's provisional findings. As De Klerk…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… was determined to possess a colony. He undertook this in his personal capacity by recruiting Stanley to exploit the … organization, but in reality it only…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… down to the Cape Colony. It was during this campaign that his Commando, as the Boer military formations were called, … had free reign of the surrounding…
PlacePhillipton
… and supporter of the rights of indigenous people, his book "Researches in South Africa", published in 1828, … first missionary was James Read who devoted…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… C. Rossow entertained me very hospitably, sometimes at his home, but neither he nor his family could speak anything but German. They had at that …
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… erected near the Town's Hospital. Dr. Robert Moffat and his wife Mary, on their way to the Town of Kuruman , were … of the murders of Northern Cape farmer…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… who then established a Farm he named Welgelegen. After his death the estate changed hands a number of times until … the end of the 18th century by either…
PlaceParow
… for the Captain. Parow died on 4 December 1910 , in his house in Cassibelle, Maitland. His wife, JW Timmerman, died ten years prior. They did not …
ArchiveNon-Violence News, Third Quarter, 1982
… a Roman Catholic high school teacher who refused to do his call-up duties with the South African Defence Force and …
EventDeputy President Phumzile Mlambo is born
… Mbeki in a gender-friendly move on 22 June 2005 after his dismissal of Jacob Zuma …
EventSA artist Rexon Mathebula is born
… South African artist who held several menial jobs and sold his first artworks, images on pieces of glass made with a …
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Russia
… Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha signed an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Andrei Kozyrev, to establish full …
ArchivePetrol bombs hit unionists homes
… Worker News that he had woken up at about two because his baby had been coughing. …
ArchiveWorld Press Photo Exhibition 84
… with red Arabic writing on it. Small photo of man on his chest. Grey poster with black lettering. …
EventRadical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, James Thaele passes away
… He was born in Basutoland (Lesotho) in 1888. Thaele lost his ANC Western Cape leadership position to A.V. Coto in the …
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… Cultural Activities Tributes to Lembede After His Death Note Bibliography …
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), led by Cyril Ramaphosa. At the time it was the second…
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… of History, University of Natal, 1990. The author focusses his research with an interest in "secessionism" and the …
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… political events in South Africa, covering eleven years of his exile from 1963 to 1974, in keeping the flow of the …
ArchiveExcerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June 1980 in Lusaka
… 1980 in Lusaka. Discusses actions of Gatsha Buthelezi and his stance on school boycotts, malnutrition in South Africa …
EventButhelezi boycotts first session of CODESA
… leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), announced his intention not to attend the first session of CODESA. He …
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… language. He died on 23 March 1977 and shortly afterwards his autobiography, Jare van Storm en Drang , was published a …
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
… came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military tactics and setting up barbed wire and block …
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
… which is a congenital absence of the fibular in both legs. His legs were amputated below the knee when he was eleven …
ArchiveDon listen to the evil talk of the troublema
… first half of title, showing man with snakes coming out of his mouth and boys listening to him. Artwork on right hand …
EventSouth African cricket player Jonathan ‘Jonty’ Rhodes is born
… Kwazulu Natal) on 27 July 1969. Better known as “Jonty”, his diving run-out of Pakistani’s Inzamam-ul-Haq during the …
PlaceKruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.
… in Pretoria . This church still has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to sit on during services, with the same Dutch …
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1 …