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EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… diseases world wide. It is reported that South Africa loses close to 100 people per day to cardiovascular … diseases and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… the first official commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union Airways Company (Pty). On this … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia…
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning … from the airport. References: Student Movements in…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… in the country. The Summit proposed the revival of South Africa's three most economically deprived areas, St Lucia, … is still considered as the biggest…
EventThe League of Nations is established
… of the United States and General J.C. Smuts of South Africa. Smuts gave substance to the vague aspirations in a … of the League in 1919 at the Treaty of…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… in 1880, the twentieth anniversary of railways in South Africa. The line was constructed as result of a mounting need … the advance of commerce and the…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… Matanzima, was granted permission by the Republic of South Africa Prime Minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd to draw up a … to the Transkei within the Republic of…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… Levinsky, of the University of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October … born in the Lethuania/Poland area and…
ArchiveThe philosophy tenets and traditions of NEUM
… crucial moment in the history of the oppressed of South Africa. The paper further discusses the introduction of the … Town in 1945, and how this programme…
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… was born in Ramsgate, England in 1882. He came to South Africa with the intention of only staying for six months but … 1922, spent 14 years at home, but…
PlaceMushroom Farm in Hillcrest, KZN
… Mushroom farming remains relatively small, in South Africa . This is despite the rise in popularity of mushrooms … There is a huge market when it comes to…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Houses of Parliament, Cape Town 6 … Distinguished guests, friends and comrades…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… force. Parallel to this transition were efforts in Africa, led by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) … their state of preparedness for deployment inside…
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
… for the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. The range is more than 200 kilometres long and … the best hiking, walking and cycling…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… nun’ who was the first sister to be arrested in South Africa. Her threat to the Apartheid state was evidenced in … Jacob Zuma paid tribute to her saying that…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa . The name is of Afrikaans origin and means 'aloe … that also graces the many untouched…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa has reached a watershed in the democratisation of our … democratic forces on the basis of a vision…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… vigour. Although very few trade union leaders in South Africa were Jewish, the Malanazis, in their papers and from … This, they said, constituted a danger to…
EventIraq boycott SA government's apartheid policies
… his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement … Congress (PAC).The political conditions…
PlacePhala Phala, Game Farm
… to contribute to the extension and deepening of South Africa’s Conservation efforts, particularly the preservation of South Africa’s wildlife Heritage. They…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Deputations
… at UNO Next week Mr. Ashwin Choudree, who led the South Africa Indian Congress delegation to England, will leave the … India's protest against the treatment…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… guilty on 17. Too many wayward laws were passed in South Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas … of the Group Areas Act, urban and rural…
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… was issued, but the court learned that she had left South Africa. In 1950 the ban on "mixed" marriages was followed by … White and other races became a…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… to arrest the leader of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM). In retaliation students … 16 uprising. This event is recognised…
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… in Davos, Switzerland, predicted economic growth in South Africa, boosted by infrastructure spending and low interest … With rates at a twenty-four year low…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… causa) degree, conferred by the University of South Africa, in recognition of his keen interest and deep … sciences, social welfare, education and culture in…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… world cup in Germany. The same year, he took part The Africa Cup of Nations. In 2010, Adebayor briefly retired from … he and his team’s bus were attacked on…
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May 1897. In South Africa he became governor of the Cape. The cape was under …
Christianity
… the whole Roman Empire, into Persia (Iran), North Africa and India. By 1300 it had spread to Iceland, China and Russia, and from there to southern Africa,…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book