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EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior attempt on his life since becoming Prime Minister was on the 9 April 1961, at the Rand Easter Show, where he…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… of the African National Congress’ Women’s League (ANCWL) on 8 December 1993. The election came just a year after she … been made over the years. The most…
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… On 25 October 1993, South Africa was invited to rejoin the … 1994. The move came after prolonged promising talks on constitutional reform between the…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… the Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid government, which, she said, was working … association with well-known criminals…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
… his own record of 13.07sec that he had set in his heat on the previous night. Mokgalagadi, a cerebral palsy athlete … at the games by also winning the 200m…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in New York, United States of America, … the beginning of the United States of…
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… claim that it will damage the economy, and that the ban on tobacco represents an unconditional infringement on the right of free speech. Worst hit by the…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… the original name of the day internationally. WWI ended on 11 November 1918 with the guns stopped on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. This is…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… parents, who were South African German immigrants, were on a visit to Germany. On returning to South Africa in 1912, she was appointed as …
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… Nkomati Accord was signed by South Africa and Mozambique on 16 March 1984. The move followed talks between South … their countries to be used as launching…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… by an overwhelming majority in a referendum held on 2 November 1983. The elections for the Houses of Representatives and Delegates were respectively held on…
EventWife of detained Nigerian president is killed
… On 4 June 1996, Kudirat Abiola the wife of Moshood Abiola, … help in the investigation. In May 1996, she was detained on a charge of false publication as…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and … piloted the first flight, lasting only twelve seconds. On the fourth and final flight of the day,…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On 26 August 1966, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia … people against the South African occupation of Namibia. On this date is also commemorated the…
EventThe Federal Congress of the National Party supports a set of constitutional reforms
… Chris Heunis. If enacted, Parliamentary rule, based on the Westminster model, would be replaced by a Presidential … At a United Democratic Front (UDF)…
EventMannetjies Coetzer is killed by a crocodile in the Kunene River
… and his family had gone to the Kunene River in Namibia on a trip that they had planned for three years. The Kunene River is located on the border of Namibia…
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… fully fit as per a medical examination. He was released on Feb 22 1978. Eight days later, the security police … the Riotous Assemblies Act) and were…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… of Mineworkers (NUM), a union which is still in operation. On 8 and 9 June 1985 unity talks between CUSA and the Azanian … of Trade Unions (AZACTU), failed…
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… that the disease first emerged as far back as the 1960’s. On 13 September 1985, the World Health Organisation (WHO) … of any country. According to the United…
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… On 28 May1991, Ethiopians People's Revolutionary Democratic … a new path, moving away from the grip of ethnic strife.On taking over as head of the new…
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… two impressive verandah houses were erected in about 1903 on the instruction of mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey. After … was declared a National Monument under…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, … was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
EventMorocco reclaims its long lost region of Sidi Ifni from Spain
… On 4 January 1969 an agreement to return Sidi Ifni to Morocco … Atlantic coast. Although the actual transfer was made on 30 June, the Sidi Ifni people were…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
… protest about the South African involvement in World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the … from the war. The first Afrikaner women…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… skirmishes between students and university authorities on some campuses. At UNIZUL in 1978, 400, mainly women, … meeting, and around plans to hold a beauty…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… Niger. In addition to conferring French citizenship on the inhabitants of the territories, the 1946 French … After the establishment of the Fifth French…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… approximately five men. She alleged she had been raped on a number of occasions by other men‚ starting when she was … they lost contact when she left for the…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… That is the first of several questions I pose to him on the eve of the festival’s opening in Durban earlier this … explanation for the patronising reference…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… The Democratic Party (DP) was formed on 8 April 1989, when the former Progressive Federal Party, … National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took its stand…
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… 50km from Rustenburg . It officially opened its doors on December 1979. It features the Lost City, a huge swimming … all over the globe. Its unique setting…