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EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… but would not give in to hostile pressure and agitation from abroad, which only encouraged militants. After this … Giliomee, H. (2012) ‘The day apartheid…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… the spice trade. Company ships travelling to and from the East would call at the Cape to replenish their …
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… The Portuguese expedition set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… jewelry, a video machine and a decoder she had stolen from the house as their payments. During the trial, the girl … I.(2004) Fourteen-year-old girl found…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… 105 years after a racist decision barred the young lawyer from practising. In 1894 Gandhi became the first non-White …
EventDiscovery of the wreck of passenger liner SS Waratah
… the SS Waratah, with 211 passengers and crew departed from Durban bound for Cape Town, and disappeared without a …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… were not acting on their express authority or orders from the Conservative Party (CP) which they purport to … The doj & cd, Amnesty denied to Hani killers ,…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… did so by May 7. On Sunday, 10 May 1998, Luyt resigned from his position and cited three reasons for his …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… the outbreak of World War II. On 26 June 1945, delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco where they adopted … library.thinkquest.org (2002). …
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… mentioned in Chinese documents pertaining to astronomy from this period. On 20 May 1910, the comet passed its …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… of the Bantu people. It is believed that they moved south from Lake Tanganyika in the 18th century. They were a warlike …
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… was that they should be, so far as is possible, removed from the suspicion of partiality to the system adopted or the …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… During his stay he found that an inoculation of bile from an infected animal safeguarded the rest of the herd. …
EventJameson Raid starts
… of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the …
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the African National Congress were required to support … Hartley,' Civil Unions Bill changed…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… in 1912. He was the barrister and President of the ANC from 1930 to 1936 when he was ousted by Reverend Z.R. …
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… of 1,800 men under Colonel Rowlands made another attempt from August until October 1878, to reduce Sekhukhune to …
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… The Hlubi had received these firearms as a form of payment from the owners of diamond mines. After refusing to go to … Vista. |New History, The Hlubi under…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… John Speke and James Grant, on their return from an expedition in Africa announced that Lake Victoria is … BBC History," John Hanning Speke (1827 - 1864) ",…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… homes were destroyed. The residents here, were originally from the Ciskei and Transkei homelands (Bantustans). The … Bray, Roddy,' Crossroads ', from Cape…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… 1994, an exhibition will be held at Freedom Park, Pretoria from Wednesday, May 14th . The Ken Oosterbroek Legacy …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… that at least 28 million of people worldwide had died from AIDS More than 20 years since HIV& Aids was first … BBC, 1984:Scientist finds Aids virus , from…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… thought to have copied details about some of the places from other explorers’ accounts. He was later appointed a … Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… the University of Cape Town. In 1969, he received his PhD from the University of Texas in the United States of America. … Nobel Prize, J. M. Coetzee ”“…
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… this time Namibia was still a South African colony dating from 1915 at the time of the First World War. The occupation … (Accessed: 23 July 2013)| O’Malley,…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… Daily, and an appeal signed by more than 2 000 mayors from 53 countries was made public by the United Nations … O’Malley, P. ‘1982’ , from Nelson Mandela…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… which provide us with the artist's documentary of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and … Johannesburg Art Gallery.|Ngcobo,…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… accident near Humansdorp, Eastern Cape while driving back from Oudtshoorn to Port Elizabeth with Di Bishop and Bishop’s … JC., (2005), South Africa: She…
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… his labour organisation called on all workers to stay away from work. About 7 000 FOSATU workers at the Uitenhage branch … O’Malley P. ‘1982’ , from Nelson…
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
… meeting that the date of Africa Freedom Day was changed from April 15th to May 25th. In 2002 the OAU was dissolved … ‘Organization of African Unity (OAU)’ ,…