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EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… soccer was introduced to South Africa when, on 11 May 1959, the National Football League (NFL) was formed. The …
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… a BA in languages at the University of the Freestate in 1959, and He went on to study at the Catholic Seminary in …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… sample taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo back in 1959 was tested to reveal the HIV virus. This suggested that …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… Africa’s first bebop band called Jazz Epistles. Through 1959, the band enjoyed their fair share of success by … group were having difficulty making money…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… in agriculture, mining and railroads are exempted. 31 May The Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… it had put forward in the closing moments of Codesa 2. 28-31 May 1992: The ANC holds its National Policy Conference. …
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… South African Prime Minister from 1954 to 1958. On 31 May 2005 it was renamed the Telkom Jo'burg Tower. The …
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… People's Union (ZAPU) and crossed the Zambezi River on 31 July 1967 into Rhodesia. Their mission was twofold: the …
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… flight at an Airport in Johannesburg on the evening of 31 May 2002. Before he met with his untimely death, his …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… doctorate from the University of South Africa. He died on 31 August 1938 in Cape Town. …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… and one policeman were killed in the violence, while 31 people were arrested. However, the official death toll was …
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after a Gold …
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… about the date of 28 May, as another source gives it as 31 May. The accuracy of this event can be debated as another …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… national flag which had flown over South Africa since 31 May 1928 until just before midnight on 26 April 1994.The …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… governing body of soccer in South Africa. Then on 11 May 1959 the National Football League (NFL) was formed by 12 …
PlaceHazyview
… 000 plant species. Hazyview was officially recognised in 1959, after the first post office and railway stop was …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… established, followed by a Union for Coloured Affairs in 1959. The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) was …
Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, December 1947
… as expressed in the Indian resolution, though carried by a 31 votes to 19 majority, lacks the force of a binding … Nations but possibly invite measures even…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… 1961, demanding the calling by your Government before 31 May 1961 of a multi-racial and sovereign National …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… under the voluntary system, could apply by December 31, 1911; (d) the seven educated Indians now in the Transvaal … or if fresh anti-Asiatic legislation was…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… declared after the Sharpeville Massacre, is lifted. 31 August, The government lifts the State of Emergency … in which Africans are instigated to strike on 29…
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… days of apartheid in South Africa), they hired premises at 31 Prestwick Street, Cape Town. On 20 April 1937, the first … of Canterbury and Commercial Streets…
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… assumed this position himself which he held from 31 December 1969 till 18 March 1977. It is speculated that …
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the …
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… chief of the SADF, Gen. Jannie Geldenhuys, announced on 31 July 1990 that the CCB would be operationally disbanded. …
EventCape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded
… [Accessed 13 September 2011] Steuerwald, D. (31 May 2006). ‘Star gazing moves south’fromNature, Vol. 441 …
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… 15 no. 4, p. 8 'Nigerian state resumes polio vaccinations: 31 July 2004' [online] Available at: www.usatoday.com …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… the order in 1988 for the SAP to blow up Khotso House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… Edward VII on 20 September 1909 and it came into force on 31 May 1910. The constitution in its final form had some …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… of power and the occupation of territories would end on 31 May, 1902 by the signing of the Peace Treaty of …