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EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
… A fire virtually destroyed the historic Wanderers Cricket Club in Johannesburg, reducing to ash irreplaceable items like historic documents, photos, ……
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… A 25 year-old tour guide and student from Mangosuthu … The animal mauled Swart despite the tourists' attempt to chase it off by shining lights and shouting…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… every Indian, including children over eight years, had to register with a government official, the Registrar of Asiatics. The … would take their fingerprints…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… Friedrich Engels died in London on 05 August 1895 after a long battle with a throat cancer. The son of a successful industrialist, he was sent to England to…
EventSir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital
… established in 1818, after Dr S. Bailey saw the need for a public hospital in Cape Town. Dr. Bailey used his own funds to build the hospital. In 1855, the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… and the National Party (NP) had reneged on an agreement to invite international mediation on the constitutional … 1993, Buthelezi had been calling for the…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
Will the real PAC please stand up? by Phumza Sokana
… at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape and, according to Mphahlele, it is going to revive the organisation. A turnaround strategy aiming at making the…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… Jacob Dlamini. At the time of their arrest, Sefatsa was a street vendor, Mokoena a trade unionist at an engineering firm, Diniso a building … not guilty on…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is sometimes referred to as Little Namaqualand, so as to distinguish it…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… Mfeketo, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen: It is a proud day indeed for Cape Town to join the global community with a world-class international…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice … half-century. And since all they are willing…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… dates from the 1890's and was built in sandstone in a predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part … Reformatory, established there in 1880. It…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to … who probably built the manor in 1795-96 according to a design…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
… A beautiful Victorian building tucked into an avenue of … Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a diverse and proud history which spans a…
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… Port Elizabeth owes its origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin … the arrival of British settlers in the Bay,…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Interval 2.Speech Refreshments 3.Auction "THE SPARK" A…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer … Studying the statistics of the campaign one finds: …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of New Park. It … Albertyn who lived from 1878 to 1967. Albertyn obtained a BA degree from…
PlaceVenda
… In 1962, the South African Government created Venda as a Homeland for the Venda-speaking people. The area set aside … or homeland , was in the North East of…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… born in Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social … to get involved in ways to improve their…
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… of democracy in South Africa. Its role was primarily to uncover human rights abuses during the Apartheid era, … of what had occurred being told would lead to…
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… been ruled by the Alaouite Dynasty since 1631. In 1859, a war was waged against Spain in an attempt to remain independent. Following this war, the French ……
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death Khama was considered the rightful heir … in Botswana (then known as…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese had launched a military strike on the United States by attacking their … Hawaii. The Americans then entered the war…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned again for a further five…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… Durban strikes of 1973 and the Soweto uprisings of 1976 to look at industrial relations system in South Africa. Two … of the closed shop bargaining system…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… attempt by African National Congress (ANC) members to smuggle weapons and literature into the country. Mahlangu … had joined the ANC in September 1976, and…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… constitutions in the world. The process that led to its approval was not an easy one. It began in 1990 with … and the release of political prisoners. The…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had first -hand … years of his arrival in South Africa, Gandhi had become a political leader,…