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National Arts Festival 2017
… and the Office of the Premier, and Standard Bank of South Africa. Media partners include M-Net and City Press …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of the founding in 1961 of the (white) Republic of South Africa. The federation also took up grassroots issues, …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… Upon his release, he was given 30 days to leave South Africa. He returned to Lesotho in 1961 and continued his …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… to the struggle for human rights and democracy in South Africa". On 24 May 1994, in his State of the Nation Address …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… in 1988-1990. The unfavourable economic situation of South Africa, due to sanctions and lack of foreign investment, as …
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… of African rebel groups, which have in turn funded some of Africa's most vicious civil wars. These rebel groups include …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… Second Anglo-Boer War and before the unification of South Africa mining companies suffered from a shortage of unskilled … Reader's Digest. (1988)…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… of diamonds in Kimberley and gold on the Rand. Also, South Africa was a British colony at the time, and thus the Empire … Evans.M.M, (1999) The Boer War:…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… 000 world-wide. The largest Rastafari community in South Africa is situated in Knysna and comprises of 30 families. …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… convictions, and to reassess their understanding of South Africa, past, present and future. …
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… and life on Earth, both past and present. One of South Africa’s smallest but busiest natural science museums, it is …
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… as a Congregational Minister. In 1887 John Dube left South Africa to study at Oberlin College in the USA. In 1894 he …
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… London following her sickness. Her passing has made South Africa poorer given her long history of activism and her …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… goal in 1997 match against Congo which secured the South Africa’s World Cup appearance in 1998. The Minister of …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… most visible manner that we, the oppressed people of South Africa and the ANC, are admired and respected (and) that it …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo returned to South Africa in 1936, well-versed in Marxist literature and …
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… the growing political and diplomatic independence of South Africa and other Dominions. … C.F.J. (ed) (1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… in anti-apartheid politics. He was banned in South Africa and had initially taken his family into exile in …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… set the world record time for the event, at 2.16.0. South Africa's isolation from international competition from the …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… 1990, political violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships most affected. The violence took … ANC and Inkatha Violence in South…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… known as the "Magna Carta" of press freedom in South Africa, and concerned the proclamation of Ordinance No 60, … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… want to hurt rugby, and He did not want to let down South Africa's rugby partners, Australia and New Zealand. …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… the Kunst-Akademie, West Germany. On his return to South Africa he opened a school in Sophiatown and became one of the … Loots, A., 2001. ‘The Early Pioneer…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… disease, rinderpest. Robert Koch was brought to South Africa by the Cape Government to investigate and find a cure … et al. (eds) (1970). Standard…
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two …
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… in 1984 and was re-incorporated into the Republic of South Africa on 27 April 1994. It now forms part of Mpumalanga …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… Exposition to mark the anniversary of the Union of South Africa. After his opening address, he took his seat. Shortly … interview’, [Available at the…
Foreword
… to the South African Commissioner and the staff of South Africa House for their support and assistance in organising …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… launched television channel and around the world. South Africa and the world were outraged. On the 17 th 300 White …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… and all the rest of the advance guard into the interior of Africa, acquired a new importance. In 1867 diamonds were … were to have far-reaching effects on…