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EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcast in South Africa by the SABC. The Funeral Speech (Eulogy) to Diana … by her brother Earl Charles Spencer,…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… to cover the occurrences of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Soon after his arrival in South Africa, he accompanied a scouting expedition on an armored ……
Journal of Black Theology
… The Journal of Black Theology in South Africa published by the Black Theology Project in Pretoria is … relation to the national struggle for liberation in…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… "hostile elements which threaten the Safety of South West Africa (Namibia) and South Africa". These included SWAPO, the African National Congress …
EventThe Luanda International Jazz Festival is launched in Luanda, Angola
… jazz artists from Angola, Brazil, United States, South Africa and many other countries. Amongst the artists featured were South Africa’s Freshly Ground, Lira…
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
… to the African Games provided that competitions in South Africa are held without racial discrimination. Eight years … because their rugby team was touring…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. … pursuing his doctoral studies at the…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with economic … going to suffer, as both of them were dependent on South Africa for economic…
EventThe Nationalist Party wins election with a reduced majority in the National Assembly
… The election was the 18th general election since South Africa since the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. …
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… On an illegal trip to South Africa with a false passport, a well-known Afrikaans writer … Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for entering South Africa to…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare, Zimbabwe … movement living in exile there. In April that year South Africa had planted a bomb in…
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… Airport. Clinton was on a tour of two weeks in Africa, showing a level of interest in Africa unprecedented for a Western head of state. In an …
EventGhana is declared a republic
… Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On 1 July … of the British Commonwealth of Nations…
EventThe third democratic elections in SA are held
… South Africa held its third democratic elections on 14 April 2004. … 2004 election also marked a decade of democracy in South Africa. The first democratic…
PlaceKlein Karoo
… along the Northern edge, of the Klein Karoo. Almost all of the Southern sections of the Klein Karoo, namely the … gradually into Calitzdorp , the Port Wine…
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… President met with President Nelson Mandela. While South Africa had maintained a friendly official relationship with … rewarded with economic aid this…
EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… OR Tambo Airport is South Africa’s main airport for domestic and international flights. … Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, just outside Johannesburg. It is Africa’s…
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… The visit was part of a six week tour of 14 nations in Africa, Europe and North America that began on the 6 June … for keeping the economic and political…
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused permission to enter South-West Africa (now Namibia). The minister of Foreign…
EventBar argues against the Suppression of Communism Bill
… Communism Bill was passed, the freedom of people in South Africa would be in jeopardy. The Bar made this point with … Swart, wherein he stated that the…
EventTrader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies
… in 1862, at the age of 14. He undertook a voyage to South Africa in 1876 and opened a general dealer’s in 1883. He had … latter was still in India and when…
EventSmugglers of military recruits in court
… that they had set up a transport route in and out of South Africa (through Swaziland into Mozambique) for the recruits … used neighbouring countries as…
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… and replaced by Brigadier Joshua Oupa Gqozo. After South Africa's first democratic elections Ciskei was re-incorporated into South Africa. …
EventThe seven day war in Kwazulu-Natal starts
… Political conflict in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa caused the death of 200 residents of Vulindlela and … of being responsible for the attacks…
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… of Connaught, governor-general of the Union of South Africa, became the University's first chancellor, and … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of…
EventSeretse Khama is born
… Bechuanaland, now known as Botswana. He studied in South Africa and graduated from Fort Hare College with a Bachelor … and prosperous country with a…
EventThe Minister of the Interior warns that re-registration of the Post newspapers would be banned
… had aimed at creating a revolutionary climate in South Africa. This decision was widely condemned. Percy Qoboza, who … credible newspaper for blacks can ever…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… in partnership with the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) hosts the 10th Oral Annual History conference in South Africa. The conference will…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement … Congress (PAC).The political conditions…
PlaceStevenson Gallery, Woodstock-Cape Town
… new was afoot that had yet to find a home in South Africa, which at the time had only one serious contemporary … African gallery to exhibit artists from…