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EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
… Shipping Acts. The accident was found to be caused by the SS Darro and the loss of life by the negligence of the master of that ship, Henry Stump, to …
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… works not currently on exhibition are advised to do so by appointment. The Permanent Collection is supplemented by an active programme of temporary…
PlaceWrensch House, 77 Lower Wrench Road, Observatory
… house stands dates back to the earliest grants of land by Jan van Riebeeck along the Liesbeek River. This Property … Cape Dutch style. In 1853 the Property…
PlaceGeorge Division
… Uniondale in 1879. Originally the region had been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times … was widespread. After the 1880s this…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… and participated in the Young Communist League (YCL) and, by 1946, in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). … of the South African Congress of…
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… Portuguese to leave Mozambique. The new government, led by Samora Machel, took over on June 25, 1975. Machel became … in Matola, Mozambique.This was the…
EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… had failed to pick up that the area was surrounded by camoflaged bases of the Angolan defence forces, reinforced by East European and Cuban troops. Angolan…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… through the election of national office holders and by the extension of an all-white parliament. By 1964, limited political rights had been extended to …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… the death of his friend, Steve Biko, Woods was arrested by the Security Police and served with a banning order. Following attacks on his home and family by…
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… 1976, along with an Operating Agreement. As defined by the convention, the purpose of Inmarsat was to improve … this convention was only put into force in…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the … Education, Andries Treurnicht, rejected the…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… of the banning order, and as such could not be quoted by any person or by the press. During his incarceration Sobukwe obtained an …
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… the appointment of multiparty transitional councils by CODESA during the first phase to oversee regional and … (ANC) accepted the plan for the constitution…
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… five. The other eight people were later killed allegedly by Inkatha supporters in retaliation. After various submissions by victims of the attack before the…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… was reached bringing to an end a five-year rent boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in the … To write of more than R 500 million in…
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… particularly problematic as many Whites felt threatened by the eventuality of a regime change. Reactions to the … dissuade him from authorising the erection…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… boycotts, which culminated in widespread rioting followed by clashes between police and civilians, were common, … treason, the intention being to overthrow…
EventPiet Retief, Voortrekker leader, is born
… compensation for freed slaves, as well as the cattle raids by the Xhosa on the Cape Frontier, from which the British … could be free from British control…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… of the sultan of Macassar, was banished to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). He arrived on board … influence on enslaved people at the Cape,…
EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
… documents, photos, trophies and records. The fire, battled by seven fire crews, started in the kitchen but soon spread. … A report released a month after the…
EventWorld Population Day
… commemorate World Population Day. This day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development … in 1989. It was a result of the…
EventWorld Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
… Sun. There has even been a demand for a Red Star of David by Israel, as they feel that Christianity and Islam are acknowledged by the current symbols, yet…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… the TRC "the fierce unforgiving assault" on the Afrikaner by the African National Congress (ANC) led government. Botha, … Botha believed that true…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… establishment of a central bank to take over the gold held by commercial banks and the issuing of banknotes. The recommendation was accepted by the South…
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
… but the hall was only opened in 1905. It was designed by architects Reid and Green from Johannesburg and was built … Africa. The City Hall overlooks the…
EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
… at Basuto Kop on 16 February 1900 can be traced in part by Rhodesian fears that the Boers would attempt to invade … their positions there. This led to a…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… factory. Upon his arrival in Manchester Engels was stunned by the high levels of poverty among the working class. He … struggle, as it resonated with the…
EventPresident Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the Raadsaal on Pretoria’s Church Square
… down in 1882. The square's current layout was designed by Vivian S. Rees-Poole in 1912, to imitate London's … of the Raadsaal, which was designed in a…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… In October 1875, a new mission, "Livingstonia", was set up by a group of members of the Free Church of Scotland. Before the missionaries arrived, the area…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… also existed in Pretoria and Durban, but were all replaced by petrol, diesel and trolley bus systems by the early 1960s. In 1985 a tram service was…