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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 …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… Barre shared the fate of many post liberation leaders in Africa. Having started out as policemen in the Italian …
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… sped up the change in the political dispensation in South Africa. On 4 March 1990 343 political prisoners on Robben … Negotiating the Release of Political…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo win a Grammy
… group that has sold over 6 million copies in South Africa and internationally. Ladysmith Black Mambazo has … South Africa.Info Grammy for Black Mambazo …
EventThe four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid
… of Good Hope is the oldest surviving building in South Africa. This fortification replaced a small clay and timber …
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… people's feelings of being marginalised in the new South Africa, warned against this and said Coloureds must claim …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… which had reached the summit on 26 May 2003. Back in South Africa, he told journalists at an environmental affairs media …
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… In South Africa's largest Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo … " Johnnic Holdings Ltd (Johnnic) - Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa ", from Mbendi ,…
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… covers that documented our history. Source: TIME, South Africa [online]. Available at: time.com [accessed 25 February …
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract painters. He first …
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… Cato was born in London, England in 1814. He came to South Africa as a trader. He was asked to plan Durban while it was …
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… he received the Wolraad Woltemade Decoration, then South Africa's highest civilian award for bravery. During his …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… in 1862, then known as The Standard Bank of British South Africa. It started doing business in a tent in Johannesburg, …
EventThe historic Tana Baru Muslim cemetery is forced to close
… the earliest and most respected Muslim settlers of South Africa were buried, was closed in terms of the Public Health …