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PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood on its present Site since 1854 and has immense Historical … was declared a National Monument under…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… On 3 July 1983, John Fleming (Jack) Brock died – he was a … Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Fleming was born on 27 March 1905 in Port Elizabeth,…
PlaceDoringbaai, Cape West Coast
… Doringbaai is a picturesque little Town on the Cape West Coast near Strandfontein and Langebaan, … Papendorp. The Bay was originally used as an anchorage…
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… from Twickenham. The Library was officially opened on 29 July 1902. It was built in the late Victorian style … was declared a National Monument under old NMC…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 Constitution Street and … delights of the Historical City can be…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… the lowveld. It crosses the Kruger National Park and flows on to Mozambique where it flows into the large Corumana Dam, … Moambe, before it finally joins the…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, … 1962, he was sentenced to five years'…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… On this day Nelson Mandela was charged for leaving the … he had been arrested near Howick, Natal (Kwazulu Natal) on 5 August 1962. Winnie Mandela who was…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… tortured and released after 251 days. Five years later, on 27 June 1986, when he was the editor of the New Nation, … of public order” and was only released…
EventThe soccer match between Lourenco Marques club Desportive and Durban City Football Club is called off because a rule against Coloured players
… On 17 February 1962, the soccer match between Lourenco … decided to cancel Desportivo's tour of South Africa on account of Coloured players not being allowed…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to … more about forced removals and the Supreme Court's ruling on specific areas. …
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… On 10 March 1961, members of the Anti-apartheid Movement … most triumphant international solidarity movements. Based on empathy, commitment and anger at…
EventThe SABS is established
… in terms of Act 24 of 1945. The Act was revised on several occasions and is currently effective as Act 29 of … service. It administers compulsory…
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… On 2 August 1928, Italy signed a twenty-year treaty of … to jointly build a road between Asseb and Dessie.It was on account of the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of…
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… country. South Africa's Prime Minister, PW Botha, counting on the support of the West and in particular the United States, issued a statement on the 23…
EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… Three attacks were launched on the night of 31 May/1 June at Sasol I and NATREF in … these operations. The final reconnaissance was done on the eve of the…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Roodepoort, near Johannesburg. The organisation was based on the philosophy of Black Consciousness advocated by Steven … the Black consciousness…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… On 21 July 1967, Chief Albert Luthuli died after he was struck by a train on a railway bridge close to the home that he had been …
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… banning orders by the government in 1953. He also served on the African Advisory Council, Joint Advisory Council, and … Committee that set the Bechuanaland…
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… and Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, was found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory … Stompie Sepei. Click here to read…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… the incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the Ciskei on 12 August 1988. The people of West Peelton were against … living in Ciskei confidence that it…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… by Caprivi trainees led by Daluxolo Luthuli. Luthuli acted on instruction from Samuel Jamile, former deputy minister of … her business in Clermont. The first…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… but according to two other sources, it was promulgated on April 29, 1829, and took effect on May 15. John Fairbairn who fought to have this ordinance - …
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north shore of the Sierra Leone Peninsula to the … in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone achieved…
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… On 20 May 2002, South African Health Minister, Manto … and her term was riddled with controversy. Her emphasis on treating South Africa's AIDS epidemic with…
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… African Communist Party (SACP). Walus, a Polish immigrant, on 10 April 1993 shot and killed Hani in the driveway of his … "It is common course that the…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… of racism, nepotism and mismanagement in the sport. On Thursday 7 May, South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) … of international rugby unless they did so…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… from six European languages, Hymne Weiss, was born on the farm Goedemoed, Rouxville district, Orange Free State … A Grades in all her Matriculation subjects…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… On 6 October 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape … the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). On 16 February 1898, the first regular…
EventJameson Raid starts
… He was proven wrong and had to surrender to General Cronje on 2 January 1896, leaving seventeen of his men killed, … wounded and thirty-five missing. Click…