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EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… announced that Sobukwe was being released from detention on 13 May 1969. On his release, Sobukwe was allowed to join his family in …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… and Phola Park residents located in the Thokoza Township on the East Rand, near Johannesburg. Tension between hostel … when residents from Thokoza erected a…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… (NP) government put its revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic South … Africa (CODESA) discussions. The proposals…
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… people were killed and eighteen injured in an attack on Soweto residents after an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) … police failed to direct that the marchers…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… for several centuries, the exploitation of elephant herds on a massive scale began in the 1970s. Organized gangs of … million to 600,000 in the 1980s,…
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… a hijacking crisis that revealed Lesotho's dependence on South Africa. A busload of pilgrims coming to see the Pope … of South Africa. South Africa's direct…
EventCarte Blanche is denied permission to quote Oliver Tambo
… On 30 January 1987 the Minister of Law and Order issued a … Wall Street Journal." The message suggests a softening up on the part of the NP government. This…
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… On 3 October 1685 the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam … (180), composed mostly of families, arrived at the Cape on board the Voorschoten. The first…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… On 4 February 1999 a group of researchers from the … had "viral sex" to form a third virus that could be spread on to other chimps and, more importantly,…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… from the obligation to convert their banknotes into gold on demand. For this reason the Gold Conference was convened … The South African Bank opened its…
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… France. It is possible that John Weston based his design on a Voisin. In France he fitted a Gnome rotary engine (50hp) and flew it successfully (in France)…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… In March 1901, British military law had been imposed on the region and the Zulu people were armed by the British. … Boer defeat. Thousands of cattle, guns…
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
… Town , Thomas Ball, laid the corner stone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the hall was only opened in 1905. It … the scene of many a military and…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… and a Village, known as Bethulie Bridge, was established on the Cape Colony side of the River soon thereafter. Its … to Bethulie. The Village was occupied by…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… In 1894 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign Parts established a mission station and lazaretto … accredited antiretroviral (ARV)…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… Point Tramway Company' was formed, and began operations on 1 April 1863, with a horse-drawn service running on rails from the foot of Adderley Street and out…
EventLiberia is established
… On 26 July 1847 the Liberian Declaration of Independence was … Republic of Liberia and instituted a government modelled on that of the US. American-born…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP) had reneged on an agreement to invite international mediation on the constitutional differences between them and…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… On this day twenty five years ago, the South African … of the armed wing of the ANC and popular communist leader on the eve of the first democratic elections…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… Thomas Pringle was born in Scotland on 5 January 1789. Pringle sustained an injury to his hip as … He returned to Scotland where he died of tuberculosis on 5…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… of the Orange Free State. The convention was signed on 23 February 1854 at the Green Lodge in Bloemfontein. The … was declared a National Monument under old…
Draft constitution of the ANC
… the 15th September 1990, an interim report was brought out on 13 September 1990. 3. Since then a number of meetings have taken place. This report was…
PlacePhansi Museum
… from different regions and cultures of South Africa are on display as are examples of beadwork dating back to the … ‘Ikhishi’, is open for refreshments and…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… in the Transvaal. At Sharpeville, police opened fire on the demonstrators and killed 69 and wounded over 180 … but dispersed after negotiations with the…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… began to gain a certain echo in townships (particularly on the Rand) and in the ranks of Congress activists. They did so precisely by throwing a spotlight on…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… Reporting about the tiny country usually focuses on its beautiful landscapes ”” highly favoured by South … absolute monarchy in Africa (and one of the last…
PlacePondoland
… whereby he agreed that trade goods would not be landed on the Pondoland coast without the express permission of the … in exchange for a strip of land about…
PlaceGreyton, Western Province
… Theunissen, who built a homestead (no longer standing) on his farm; ' Weltevreden '. He did not stay long because he … He established a freehold agricultural…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… the provincial capital of North West since 1994 and lies on the border with Botswana , it's about 260 kilometers West … of the Barolong Boo Ratshidi…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… that in spite of my busy schedule, I needed to be present on the WBC's first visit to this country, so that we could say, on behalf of all South Africans:…