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EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… SACU and the NSC included reducing the number of games from seven to four and cancelling the second test match. It … 228-9.|Wilson, H, St. George's Park…
EventAdvocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated
… Magazine website NB: Some of the information was taken from Namibian.com.na, but that link is broken. …
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… billions on an arms deal while its citizens are dying from HIV/AIDS in tens of thousands. According to Cosatu, to … National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012-2016…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… more than 30 senior police officers are seeking amnesty from the Commission for a bombing campaign carried out during … TO STOP TRC REPORT SET DOWN FOR…
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… allegedly eating on the job. The second conviction arose from an incident two weeks before the assault on Mr Motshabi, … gets R20 000 bail, appeals against…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Minister of Law and Order conveyed this order directly from President P. W. Botha. In two-hour talks with the TRC, … TM Mbeki On The Statement of The Bombing…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… breaststroke. South Africa had previously been banned from participating in the Games due its policy of apartheid. …
EventWits attains full university status
… was granted to the University College in 1922, with effect from March 1. Seven months later the inauguration of the … University of the Witwatersrand About…
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… was decided on. With considerable financial support from local philanthropists Jannie and Christiaan Marais, the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.| Die Burger,"…
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… usual means of transporting provisions and articles to and from the city itself became inadequate. This was primarily …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… Republic and the Orange Free State Republic) and Britain from 1899-1902, the British forces, according to the …
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… on the former place. Other evidence, notably a letter from the deputy secretary of foreign affairs to the Swiss …
Event200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1834, becoming law from this date. Emancipation was followed by four years of … Human & Rousseau.|Eh Din, Black History…
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… of South Africa. Die Stem was sung on official occasions from 1928, and Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was first sung publicly …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… the government’s policies and its increasing move away from democracy, resigned to form his own opposition party. … Answers, Oginga Odinga , from Answers , …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… two inmates, Allan Heyl and Lee McCall. The three escaped from prison and began robbing banks. The media soon coined … African Crime," The stander Gang "…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… 23 May 1951 aged 90, the same year, Nelson Mandela’s son from his first marriage with Evelyn was born. In paying …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… their lives. In May 1952 Kahn and Carneson were expelled from the House of Assembly and Cape Provincial Council, … (Accessed: 14 February 2013)| O’Malley, P…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… and medical staff. At least 25 000 children and women died from epidemics of dysentery, measles, and enteric fever. …
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… References: Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About African History, 01 June, [online], available at …
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… sovereignty. Initially the Boers (Voortrekkers) who came from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek settled just north of … SAHO, Free State , from South…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… 2011. ‘Pieter Wenning - South African Artist From Art History’ [online] Available at www.the-art-world.com …
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… were put to the respondents. Four themes were identified from the participants’ responses: the Aesthetics of Gardens …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… was attended by 164 delegates representing 230,000 women from all parts of South Africa. The leadership of the …
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… elections on the 27th April 1994. After resigning from active politics, Ramaphosa ventured into the private …
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… The Mountain was also known to the Boers as 'Logieskop', from Dutch-logies, which means boarding or lodging, as this …
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of … Joshi, support this stand. The Africans too have learnt from the passive resistance struggle that…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… that the exclusion of the King and KwaZulu administration from the CODESA process could lead to violence." The exchange … negotiations can take place. There…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… achievements is our success in advancing our country away from its divided past, towards the realisation of the vision … Justice reminded me that 14 February…