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PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on 1 December 1879. Its economic base was largely agrarian, … However it followed a steady pattern…
EventTribute to Joost van der Westhuizen
… Motor Neuron Disease (MND), Joost was rushed to hospital on Saturday in a critical condition. The public memorial for … unifying moment in South African…
EventClive Derby-Lewis dies
… On 3 November 2016 Clive Derby -Lewis, the man who was … Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria after he was released on medical parole from Kgosi Mampuru II…
EventKing Williams Town schools are closed in commemoration of Victoria Mxenge
… On 1 August 1986, students of Lamonville high school, as well … civil rights lawyer, Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, who died on that day the previous year. …
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… University of South Africa. This thesis includes chapters on Black Consciousness, Black Theology of Liberation and the … Students Organisation; Steve Biko…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
… Mike Nicol. Features: Images of Youth; Some Thoughts on Fools by Melanie Donald ; Thoughts on Bongiwe by Thami Mnyele; Language, Literature and the …
50 years of forced removals under apartheid
… to join & to bring banners with their communities' names on them. The programme will end with speeches, performances … impact of apartheid displacement and…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… On April 1 1989, the start of the implementation of … combatants and 23 security force members were killed . On April 10 1989, South Africa, Angola and Cuba…
PlaceRuimzicht House, 10 Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
… front and side gables as well as cast-iron decorations on the façade. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. THE…
EventThe Excelsior, biggest diamond till then, is found in the Jagersfontein mine, OFS
… Diamond was discovered by a miner while loading a truck in on 30 june 1893. The diamond, which is described beingas … pieces, which has been described as a…
EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… placed under arrest for the next 14 years. He was released on 4 July 1979 and placed under house arrest until 1980. Bella died on 11 April 2012. … Available…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an … colonized the country, had named it French Somaliland. On…
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… originates from Lyttelton Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. The area was inhabited … of former South African Prime Minister…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… of Somali insurgents it blamed for a series of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and frequent assaults on its security forces in the border provinces in the North …
EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
… On 6 October 2005 angry commuters set fire to several coaches … known how the commuters started the fire. Setting trains on fire is not unusual in South…
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… Initially, South Africa declined to withdraw, but on this date it stated in a communication its decision to … declaration by the International Labour…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… On the 13 January 1963, the South African Non-Racial Olympic … SAN-ROC opposed all racial sport structures and went on to advocate for the expulsion of South…
EventThe first regular jet flight leaves London for Johannesburg
… to introduce a passenger jet, the de Havilland Comet. On 2 May 1952 the first regular jet flight, with a Havilland Comet, left London with 36 passengers on…
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P. Campbell formed … summiting of the Devil's Tooth, still…
EventSA artist, Daniel Sefundi Rakgoathe is born
… On 25 February 1937, Daniel (D an) Sefundi Rakgoathe was … Randfontein in the then Transvaal province. Rakgoathe went on to be the first full-time student…
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… On 27 January 1980, the Rhodesian nationalist leader Robert … rally of supporters there would be no more injustice based on race and colour. ……
EventStudent Wages Commission meet
… and signed an objection to the Wage Board's latest ruling on the minimum wage, and demanded a minimum wage of R20 per … ignored by the government's Wages…
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Community lifted its sanctions against South Africa on 4 October 1993. The United Nations only lifted all … when the Security Council adopted Resolution 919…
EventSA signs Nuclear Treaty
… accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) on behalf of South Africa. This opened South Africa's nuclear … The nuclear safeguards agreement…
EventUNHRC service is enlisted in repatriation process
… with which Pretoria did not have diplomatic relations. On 7 March, the first batch of the African National Congress (ANC) exiles returned home from Zambia on…
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… ANC later learned that the Pretoria Minute was not binding on Homelands government. Homelands like Bophutatswana were … the South African government was…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… Justice J. Basson handed down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas … who fired at demonstrators attacking his home with…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the … He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could not…
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west Africa. On the same day exactly 10 years later, on 25 December 1497, Dias's compatriot Vasco da Gama gave…
EventBrett Kebble is shot dead
… was ambushed in Melrose, Johannesburg, at around 21:00 on his way to a dinner engagement. Andile Nkuhlu, Kebble's … a callous, premeditated crime. His car…