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EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… the permanent staff of the South African newspaper, South Africa News. At the inception of the Afrikaans newspaper, Die …
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… White people and people of other race groups in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the apartheid … The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… He also founded the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA). He was the third son of African National … International Defence and Aid Fund for…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… Gumede became a member of the National Assembly of South Africa. He died in June 1998 at the age of 84. …
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… honorary professor of Economics at the University of South Africa. Mboweni is currently the chairman of AngloGold …
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… anthem of early socialists and communists in South Africa). … Boddy-Evans, A., ‘This Day in Africa History: 11 March’ , from About.com, [online], …
EventThe SABS is established
… Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), South Africa's interests are advanced and protected. In addition to …
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… is deemed to have become official policy in South Africa. In America, racial segregation on city buses was …
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… this treaty was to resolve outstanding differences in East Africa. The treaty provided Ethiopia access to the Red Sea …
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… the growing political and diplomatic independence of South Africa and other Dominions. … C.F.J. (ed) (1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Slovo made his way back to the country. After first South Africa democratic elections, which were won by the ANC, Slovo …
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… in anti-apartheid politics. He was banned in South Africa and had initially taken his family into exile in …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… sanctions to bring the system of white supremacy in South Africa to an end. …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… set the world record time for the event, at 2.16.0. South Africa's isolation from international competition from the …
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… steadfastly believed that a non-racial society in South Africa could be achieved. …
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… facing an escalation in violence. The PAC is one of South Africa's major political parties that endorsed the peace …
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… a second coup attempt with South African help. The South Africa's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed his …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… 1990, political violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships most affected. The violence took … ANC and Inkatha Violence in South…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… Boksburg was the largest of 104 municipalities in South Africa to fall into CP’s leadership. …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… Press. Under his leadership, the newspaper became South Africa's most popular Black-edited publication. The National …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… where the borders of Mozambique and Swaziland and South Africa meet. The Mozambican president was returning from a …
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… known as the "Magna Carta" of press freedom in South Africa, and concerned the proclamation of Ordinance No 60, … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
EventLeendert Janszen, junior merchant of the VOC, recommends settlement at the Cape
… the refreshment station at the Cape, the course of South Africa history was changed forever. … [Accessed 15 July 2009] | History of South Africa [online]…
EventUN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
… human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. President Mbeki of South Africa, who was mandated in May 2007 by the African Union …
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… in the so-called nine-day war near the end of South Africa's occupation of Namibia, which ended in 1990. It was …
EventSA eldest person celebrates her birthday
… The eldest person in South Africa and allegedly eldest in the world, Granny Moloko Temo, …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… want to hurt rugby, and He did not want to let down South Africa's rugby partners, Australia and New Zealand. …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… when the signatory countries ratified the Charter. South Africa was one of the original founding members of the UN in …
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… the north of the country, which became known as South West Africa with the German colonization of 1885. A number of …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… the Kunst-Akademie, West Germany. On his return to South Africa he opened a school in Sophiatown and became one of the … Loots, A., 2001. ‘The Early Pioneer…