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EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… was arrested and appeared in court on charges of trying to enter a Black township without permit, but charges were … subsequently dropped. In the same month,…
EventMalawian President Hastings Banda visits SA
… Following a visit by South Africa's Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to Malawi in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi … the first head of an independent…
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… In an effort to promote peace in Natal, the African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela made a trip to Durban to speak to ANC supporters. In a…
EventBotshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa
… Despite visible resistance to incorporation into the Qwa Qwa homeland, the South African … Qwa and severely stretched its meager resources. According to the…
EventAn American Jet is shot down in Ethiopia
… A US registered Lear jet 35 Aircraft was shot to ground by Ethiopian military forces. The incident claimed … (ATC) ten minutes before entering Ethiopian…
ArchiveEllen Kuzwayo
… an exchange of memoranda is no substitute for face-to-face talks. I was therefore disappointed that you did not … and may lead to the loss of further lives…
PlaceCabo Verde
… Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic … 1462 [i] [ii] . Historically, the…
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… explorer and cartographer Diego Ribero first claimed to have discovered The Comoros in 1505, the islands became a French colony in 1843 following a military…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to fears amongst some in the SACP leadership that a premature announcement might prejudice work in…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… Museum of Photography is named after Dr AD Bensusan, a former mayor of Johannesburg and a man who has devoted himself to the promotion of the art and science…
EventThe Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra
… truly integrated as one country. It served the British to have the country in turmoil because it would make it much … culture and religious beliefs, were now…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… Apartheid as a system was obsessed with separating the citizens of South Africa on a racial basis. This was done to foster White superiority and to entrench…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… member, Joseph Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 and agreed to pay damages to his family. A claim for loss of support by Mdluli's widow against the … in Durban…
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… Maritime Organisation (IMO) recognised the potential for a satellite communications system that would aid distress … 1966, the IMO's Maritime Safety…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… of the student uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for … The result was that Black teachers now…
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… order and house arrest on this date. Surprisingly, for a brief period Winnie's banning order was not reimposed, … African National Congress (ANC), these…
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… found that the police were informed of the IFP's decision to hold a rally in Jabulani Stadium as well as fears of residents in Soweto relating to the rally…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… facilities, including buildings, and transport, in order to limit contact between the different races in South Africa. … that the facilities for different…
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… as many Whites felt threatened by the eventuality of a regime change. Reactions to the perceived changes were often quite violent. This was … the events that…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… for the mixed race community, announced that 454 out of a total of over 900 schools were going to be closed until 1 October 1985, on the grounds that the ……
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… by the newspaper after her admission that she passed a story on spy allegations involving the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, on…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… The Jameson Raid of 1895 did tremendous harm to the relationship between the Boer Republics and the … the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… Fort Cunynghame was a telegraph office which, together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian … who was in its command. Such…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… in South Africa commenced in Cape Town in May 1801, when a weekly coach service from Cape Town to Simon's Town was announced. Many years later in September ……
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… (SACP) secretary-general, Chris Thembisile Hani also known to many as Tshonyane (his clan name), was shot and killed in … driveway of his Boksburg home. Soon…
EventParliament opens with the debate of no confidence on Government
… for the national security of the country by failing "to take the public into its confidence, and to motivate it adequately in regard to its actions and … the…
PlacePhansi Museum
… pots, ceremonial attire and medicinal items dating back to the mid-19th Century. We have a particular love and interest for all people and things … they are…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… van der Stel originally granted an Estate of 57 morgen to Jacob Vogel in 1697 but it was almost immediately … forbidden to Grant Land to their relatives, so…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… in use in the early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to…