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Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… were granted independence by the Republic of South Africa; Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei. …
EventAndrew Charles Hudson, South African cricketer is born
… and 89 One Day International cricket matches for South Africa in the 1990s. Hudson was a right-handed batsman and … Charles Hudson [online] Available at: …
EventTony Leon is born
… A. The merger occurred immediately after the second South Africa national democratic elections in 1999. These parties …
EventXhosa author Samuel Mqhayi dies
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 628. …
EventSA artist Sydney Khumalo is born
… and Europe as a guest of USSALEP (United States/South Africa Leadership Exchange Programme), West Germany in 1979 …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was …
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the …
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 534. Kalley, …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… in its most crucial period. He was at the same time South Africa's, and perhaps the continent's, most distinguished … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventKimberley swimmer Karen Muir (12) sets new world record
… in 1980. Because of the Olympic Games ban on South Africa, she never competed at the Olympics and retired in …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… negotiations for a democratic dispensation in South Africa. In the process they set an example to the rest of the … Frederik W. De Klerk, President of the…
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… that the ANC was the principal political movement in South Africa. …
EventEric Mntonga is found dead
… of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) in the border region, was found on a dirt road …
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… 1986. In 2006, Mabhida's remains were transferred to South Africa by the South African government for reburial at his …
EventPhumizile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as SA Deputy President
… was appointed as first woman Deputy President in South Africa. She replaced Jacob Zuma, who had been fired from his …
EventOlympic games end in Athens
… next Olympic competitions in 2008, with 63 medals. South Africa managed to win six medals, including one gold. The …
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… essays and novels dealing with issues of race and South Africa's changing society. The FF Ribeiro Clinic was named …
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… exile in Jamaica, he was offered amnesty in South Africa, where he and his family are still living in great …
EventANC celebrates 90th anniversary
… to act together to advance towards the land of promise for Africa and Africans foreseen by our forebears when they …
EventMbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate
… Three months after being inaugurated as South Africa's second president since democratic elections in 1994, … South Africa Government Online, 'Thabo Mvuyelwa…
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… was en route from Naples, Italy, to Johannesburg, South Africa, via Egypt for repair. The Ethiopian authorities …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… became the second Black president of the Republic of South Africa. He was unanimously appointed by the new parliament on … [Accessed: 11 June 2014]|Burger,…
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… apartheid. Click here to read more about the arts in South Africa Click here to read specifically about South African …
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… 1912, the first weather forecast for the Union of South Africa as a whole was issued by A.G. Howard of the Union … et al. (eds) (1970). Standard…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… Naicker played a crucial role in the history of South Africa and his name is well documented amongst the political …
EventRabbi Israel Abrahams is born
… Abrahams was born in Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 1937 and held the position of chief rabbi for more …
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… the parliamentary staff of The Times. He moved to South Africa and became editor of the Pretoria News from 1924 until … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. On her return to South Africa after obtaining a D.Litt et Phil degree, she lectured … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventThe Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha reveals government plan on increasingly militant Black trade unions.
… December 1985, when popular unrest had spread across South Africa. …