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EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… On 26 February 2000, it is reported that Cyclone Eline, which …
EventDesire Wilson is born
… Desiré Randall Wilson was born on 26 November 1953 in Brakpan. Wilson is a former racing driver …
EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… Cloete was born in Germiston, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 26 August 1978. She began high jumping at the age of 13 when …
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… high treason on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. On 26 January, 1983, the South African government announced at a …
ArchiveEllen Kuzwayo
… Mr Mandela I acknowledge receipt of your memorandum dated 26 June 1992. However, an exchange of memoranda is no …
EventA fire breaks out on Table Mountain after a British tourist allegedly tossed a lit cigarette out of a car window
… On 26 January 2006, a massive fire swept along the lower slopes …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… in hotels for a while before settling down in Asherville. 1968 - Served with another banning order. 1973 - His third …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… on the subject of race”. [3] [1] NASA, JUS, 919, 1/18/26, vol.13 – vol.15. Report from the Criminal Investigation … at Potchefstroom, 23 March 1928. [2]…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… 1978? MRS SOBUKWE: In 1969, the last letter I wrote was in 1968, November. They wrote back to me saying that they will … him quickly. I later found out on…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… African labour history. Sources: Pretoria News, August 26, 2002. Today in History. …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… History Online http://www.cosatu.org.za/shop/ss0406-26.html …
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… the Union parliament passed the Indian Relief Act on 26 June 1914, abolishing the £3 poll tax, recognising …
EventA teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington
… A teacher training college in South Africa opened on 26 January 1896, in Wellington, in the Western Cape, South …
EventJomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted
… came shortly after the Lari massacre that happened on 26 March 1953 where close to 100 people were killed and …
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early …
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
… in Slovakia on 24 August 2007. The team consisted of 26 members with three of the medal winners being from …
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… be happy"12 By the time of the CC meeting of February 1968 - attended by Kotane, Dadoo, Slovo, Rusty Bernstein, … functioning. In fact, some of the issues…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… Dullah Mohamed Omar was born in Observatory, Cape Town on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. After matriculation …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… The 26-year-old Tanzanian, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a prime …
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… Africa in One Day International (ODI) matches played from 26 to 30 December against England in Port Elizabeth , South …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections resulted…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… the third day of an operation aimed removing an estimated 26,000 squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the …
EventThe Chernobyl computer virus damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world
… On 26 April 1999, the CIH computer virus infected a large number …
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… In a calm morning in March 1968, a shipment carrying the latest Korgs, Moogs and Hammond …
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… life in the superb climatic environment of the Karoo. In 1968, David Rawdon, hotelier par excellence whose claim to …
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… South African Student's Organisation (SASO) in December 1968. He was a regular contributor to The Black Review and …
PlaceWoodstock
… 1827, instructions were issued to demolish the forts. In 1968, the last remaining redoubt was proclaimed a National …
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… of Cape Town. We were together at the ‘sit-in' in 1968, protesting against UCT's refusal to appointArchie …
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… the World without a botanical garden. Then, on 19 November 1968, a report by the director of the parks and recreation …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… as he left for Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. [26] She was chosen as their representative due to her … to appear in court, and served 90 days in…