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EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of South Africa from 1996 to 1999. After 2004 national elections, …
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… Free State and incorporated them into the Union of South Africa. …
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… activists Kenneth and Tilly Abraham from the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), he created the YCCC to …
Clarion Call
… peaceful change and a negotiated future for South Africa". The youth of KwaZulu, in particular, were called …
EventPresident Nelson Mandela awards the Gold Order of Meritorious Service posthumously to Enoch Sontonga, composer of “Nkosi, Sekel
… (Gold) posthumously to Sontonga for his service to South Africa. . His granddaughter, Mrs Ida Rabotape received the …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Cottam Grove has a length of 0.13 kilometres. …
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in the general struggle of the country as a …
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… , Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Source: Africa at LSE Reference List [1] Ernest Harsch, Thomas … of Ohio Press, 2014. [2]Kingsley Kobo, “Spirit…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… FW de Klerk became president talking of a ‘new South Africa’. Other political prisoners, including Sisulu, were …
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… shot at home by a group of armed men; abducted to South Africa while wounded, then died. 13 December Mogotsi, …
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… When the sun sets, the characteristic sounds of Southern Africa are absent, though the resulting stillness is near …
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… disapproves of sending coloured men and natives from South Africa to Europe for any service in connection with the war …
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… Suzman used Parliament to fight injustices in South Africa. Suzman became a thorn in the flesh of apartheid by …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… is a landmark in the history of mission work in South Africa. It is still used by the people of Bovlei The Bovlei …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education Book 4: …
PlaceWeskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria
… in 1892 and is today the biggest of its kind in South Africa, as well as the Oldest Psychiatric Hospital, in …
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing the US. Both athletes …
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh returned to South Africa and become involved in the Passive Resistance …
EventMafika Gwala born
… their self-identity. Later in life he examined how South Africa had changed and there was the same space for him and …
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme
… An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders The Regeneration of Africa - speech by Pixley Seme 5 April 1906 Zulu of King's …
EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… meeting organised by the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWU). He was later arrested as the protest was deemed …
EventSA artist Tshela Matsoso is born
… artist. Between 1970 and 1988 he exhibited in South Africa, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Athens, Greece; Canberra, …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, …
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… with Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to form Italian East Africa. …
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… He was a founder member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), a multiracial party formed in 1953. Msimang …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… his greatest achievement was in 1996 where he won South Africa’s only silver medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993). South Africa in the 20th Century, Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic. …
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… claimed had neglected the "Master Plan" drawn up for South Africa by Dr. Hendrick Verwoerd. The second clash ensued at … 4 February 1970, [Available at…
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… patient. She lived for 12 years afterwards. She was South Africa's fifth heart transplant recipient and the first woman …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of …