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EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… De Klerk announced triumphantly that the people of South Africa were behind him, along with the African National … by the South African Communist Party and…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… Republics. In the encyclopaedia the 'New History of South Africa' (2007) the authors claim that the South African War … terÂrible and destructive modern…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Leadership Framework For Sustainable Organizations In Africa: An Indigenous Knowledge Systems Perspective v Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… The Administrative capital of South Africa , Pretoria, or the ' Jacaranda City' is best known for … of the Transvaal in 1860; administrative capital of South…
PlaceThaba Bosiu, Lesotho
… siege. The expansive flat-topped summit is protected on all sides by formidable sandstone Cliffs, yet it is watered … to the Plateau. The Plateau also offers…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… riding off to Umtata for reinforcements, Welsh advised all concerned to fall back upon his residency at Mditswa … number included thirty five men, women and…
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… the words of Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (The Call of South Africa), died at his home 'Arbeidsgenot' in Oudtshoorn. Die … version of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… and related services and observations, suspended South Africa from the organisation until it renounced its racial … at its seventh Congress held in Geneva,…
EventPrime Minister Louis Botha resigns because of conflict with Hertzog
… General Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa since 31 May 1910, resigned from his post following an … event of a conflict of interests between…
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho to counter South Africa's threat of a blockade against that country. A year … Lesotho refused to sign a non aggression…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… the controversy. The railway was built by the British East Africa Company and stretched from Mombasa to Kisimu. … The railway line, administered by a single…
EventGeorge Pauling, builder of railway lines in SA, dies
… a British born engineer who built railway lines in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and other Southern and Central African countries. He came to South…
EventCommandant General Hiemstra announces the outcomes of Anglo-South African deliberations
… agreement for the defence of sea routes around Southern Africa. The story of the Simonstown Agreement dates back to 1955 when it was signed by South Africa…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education
… is often viewed as an overwhelming force that devastated Africa. However, it is equally important to highlight the … show that its power was contested and…
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… only in certain regions of the world, Sub Saharan Africa for instance was considered the domain of the virus. … is “Getting to Zero – Zero AIDS-Related…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… schools of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 1938, he reported that: "There can hardly be a … which had prospered from sugar , Natal’s…
PlaceThe Space Theatre
… and defied the Socio-Political Conditions, in South Africa. The Documentary looks at the dangers of apathy, … the dangers of censorship and highlights the…
PlaceLangeberg Mountain Range, Western Cape
… Mountain Range is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is approximately 170 km long! The Marloth Nature … the Western Cape’s; Primary River…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… area where a complete mix of people lived, from all walks of life (from priests to politicians, from … one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the Cape and…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA … which she obtained from the University of…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Finally in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the name was changed to Gqeberha. (…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… The Ghetto Act brought about a turning point in South Africa's international relations and standing in the world community. The position of Indians in South…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… his support for economic sanctions to be imposed on South Africa. While many European countries had boycotted South Africa both economically and culturally,…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne … volume adds to the history of Jewish…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… These types of informally constructed houses are in South Africa known as “Shacks”, but the local residents of Hangberg … the uprising the then Mayor of Cape…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… (ANC) political campaigner and lawyer. He left South Africa in 1985 for Mozambique after being tipped off by the … we Sizwe, directing its military…
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… their infancy on 11 January 1974, in Cape Town, South Africa. The three boys (David Peter, Grant Vincent and Jason … born at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, in…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… Botha were the two representatives of the Union of South Africa. Smuts also played an important role in the drafting … of the Covenant of the League. Most…
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… (WHO) declared the disease a worldwide epidemic. Africa has the highest rate of infection than any continent, with South Africa having the highest of any…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… (Nats) to accept the presence of Indians in South Africa as a permanent reality, albeit as second-class … much the word may be used as a term of abuse…