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PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
… the instructions of Cecil John Rhodes. Rudyard Kipling and his family stayed here during the Summer. … the instructions of Cecil John Rhodes. Rudyard Kipling…
ArchiveWhite and Black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
… discusses the existing multi-ethnicity in South Africa and his vision of South Africa as a federal commonwealth state …
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… people and their leaders, and on the lasting impact of his life and philosophy on South Africa. First Edition : …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… of Pan-Africanism , ordered the release of the last of his political prisoners, detained under the Preventive …
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… In 1982, the small kingdom of Swaziland was shocked when His Majesty, King Sobhuza II, passed away at the age 83 at … Swaziland National Trust Commision,…
EventDjibouti and Cote d’ Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… to Nigeria by the state president, F.W. de Klerk, and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other …
EventHarry Gwala is awarded Isitwalandwe/Seaparakoe
… to liberation struggle. President Nelson Mandela said in his address at Gwala's funeral that it was 'precisely because …
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
… Though the visit was unofficial Botha managed to meet his counterpart, Boris Pankin, and Eduard Shevardnadze, who …
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
… National Congress (ANC) Vice-President Nelson Mandela met his old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced his banning order immediately after the aborted coup attempt …
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's …
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town. During his political career, Eglin was instrumental in the merging …
EventDr. Chris Barnard, medical practitioner who performed the first heart transplant, is born
… Barnard studied medicine at the University of Cape Town. His first practice was at Ceres, also in the Western Cape. …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June …
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… Detention Act which he used to imprison more than 1 000 of his political and social opponents. This was not the first …
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ArchiveMemorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
… may have had a different connotation then. He also gives his view on propositions stated by Martin Legassick and …
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… close reading of literary and theoretical texts, Parry’s work combined the sympathetic deployment of the ideas of … describing it as an ‘interesting and…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… six months after he was denied admission to proceed with his law studies at the University of the North, Ramathlodi …
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural …
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… that he is an African messiah. Click here to read about his burial Click here to read more about the history of …
EventANC member, Henry Fazzie sentenced to 20 years in jail under the Sabotage Act
… to receive training in guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, their movements and whereabouts …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… to ponder opening a corruption charge against him. In his verdict Judge Squires announced that there was a corrupt …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… Mamelodi. A street in the Pretoria CBD has been named in his honour. …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… Eastern Cape. He died in Bloemfontein in January, 1980. His siblings included Manasseh Tebatso Moerane and Epainette …
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
… concentrations of extreme Rural and Urban poverty and the Apartheid legacy that confronts Local Government. The overall … of peace-loving people, and he…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… Winston Churchill who was captured as a war correspondent. His successful escape from the building added a colourful … representative peer at Westminster,…
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television …
PlaceAlverstone, a Railway Station near Drummond
… permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite Locales) …
EventSouth African Actor, Henry Cele , dies
… Henry ”Black cat” Cele was a revered actor, most famous for his chilling portrayal of the Zulu King, Shaka in the 1985 …