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EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… was born on 7 April 1847 in Fort Beaufort in Cape Town. From a young age Maxeke showed musical talent. She finished … Johannesburg Hospital, Charlotte…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… home, it is alledged that he committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in New York on 14 July 1965. An … 06 July 2011] Anon, (n.d.), ‘Nathaniel…
EventSpringboks beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup final match
… Zealand’s Rugby Team, was neutralised by solid tackling from the South African side. Though both teams played quite … beat New Zealand in Rugby Wold Cup…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… on Market Street in the year of the opening of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest …
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… uses rounded arches (Romanesque), which was a change from Sir Herberts use of the pointed arches (Anglo Gothic), …
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… week, starting with one trained Teacher and nine Students, from First to Fifth grade. …
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… of actions non-whites in this country can take. Apart from mass meetings and processions, one means of making the …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… born in Johannesburg to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy attended the Yeoville Boys’ primary …
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 rugby world cups. He retired from professional rugby after the 2003 world cup. At 89 caps, … D. (2011), Stricken Joost still the…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… to provide alternative lessons to the learners excluded from the education system. …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… library. In 1973 he was awarded an honourary doctorate from the University of South Africa. He died on 31 August …
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… of the other car were killed. Her death stunned people from all races and her funeral was attended by a large group …
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… Peter suggested that a funicular railway line running up from Oranjezicht through Platteklip Gorge would be the most … Mountain Ariel Cableway (2011). …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Congress (ANC) supporters, became serious when residents from Thokoza erected a squatter camp on land adjacent to …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… allowed to move freely, carrying arms along several routes from the stadium. In the aftermath of the march, IFP …
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… town then sought to humiliate him in order to dissuade him from authorising the erection of the facility by assaulting … Institute of Race Relations, Race…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… sentenced the eleven Trialists. The sentences ranged from ten to twelve years' imprisonment. … Political History: a chronology of key political events from…
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… hijackers claimed that their intention was to free Lesotho from a military government, which was fully backed by the …
EventStudents at Durban
… had come on to campus. Students decided to stay away from lectures until the university had resolved the matter. …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… committee in Pietersburg, gave a different version from the one given by the police. Maurice testified "he was … Deaths, Peter Nchabaleng's Memorial Service,…
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… Calvinist Reformed Church that was established in 1550. From the mid 1500s until the mid 1600s, Huguenots were …
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… work in the elimination of the scourge, saying that from what had been reported it appeared that those caught …
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Harper P,(2003),'Journalist Suspended over Ngcuka row',from the Independent Online,14 September,[Online],Avaliable …
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was made up of women from across Africa who wanted to raise awareness around the … Train: 16 August - 26 August 2002…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth derived from it. South Africa is a world leader in deep mining, with …
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… The two relocated to Belgium after Marx was expelled from France. In 1846, Engels and Marx set up a Communist …
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… knighted for his efforts. Due to ill health he resigned from office in 1897, and wrote an autobiography called A life …
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… it is stated that about one hundred men were employed away from the force in various situations ... In July 1878 the …
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… Parts established a mission station and lazaretto there, from that developed a government/public organisation, …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… by G. McCall Theal, and sponsored by the Cape Government from 1893 to 1895. The system of genealogical numbering that …