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EventColoureds are removed from the voters roll
… avoid the collapse of White civilisation in the whole of Africa, as this move would guarantee their wishes. …
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… an honourary doctorate from the University of South Africa. He died on 31 August 1938 in Cape Town. … D.J et al. (eds) (1971) Standard Encyclopaedia of…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… arrived in Britain with his family after fleeing South Africa via Lesotho and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven … South African Guide, (2010), South…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… to create a just local government system in South Africa. The two parties agreed to: To end the five year rent …
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… to read more about the role of State violence in South Africa. Click here to read about the increase of Inkatha …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… standards of education for Black children in South Africa. The boycotting students were also reacting to the …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… et al. (eds) (1970) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 424. …
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… England, America, the Netherlands, Poland and South Africa, where they could enjoy religious freedom. The Dutch … & Rousseau.| Giliomee et al. (2007), New…
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… in the Vaal Rand area. The dispute affected half of South Africa's transport businesses and had a considerable impact … wsws Workers Struggles: Europe &…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… Troglodytes, which were once widespread in west-central Africa. The team of researchers, led by Paul Sharp of …
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… reigning European champion while Bafana Bafana had won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996. However, Germany had the upper …
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… Botha, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa in 1978 and later its President from 1984-89, made his …
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the …
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
… 39 bells making it one of the largest carillons in South Africa. The City Hall overlooks the Grande Parade, flanked by …
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… have a profound influence on political activists in South Africa during the liberation struggle, as it resonated with …
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… the founding members of the Genealogical Society of South Africa. De Villiers was married to Sara Susanna Celliers, … D.J et al. (eds) (1971) Standard…
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… held between the Government and the Press Union of South Africa on matters concerning the Press. On these occasions …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that she attended the first …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… to hold a number of important positions in the new South Africa, including general secretary of the Congress of South … Gastrow S. (1995) Who’s who in South…
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… involved in crime during that time behind bars. South Africa has close to 700 citizens in foreign prisons for drug …
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… Park is situated in Bloemfontein in the Free State, South Africa. There are two Parks on the West of the City Centre, …
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… never confirmed. It is the worst train disaster ever in Africa. …
PlaceAlbaster Klip, Northern Cape
… region in what is today the Limpopo Province of South Africa, to 1 May 1838, when his wife died less than three … work by foremost literary and artistic…
PlaceWild Coast
… The Transkei section of the Wild Coast is Rural South Africa at its best and the roads to the Coast lead the … Whales migrate from the Antarctic to the…
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… conservation of the highest density of big game in South Africa. Even though there is a 50 kilometre unfenced boundary … 'the Sabi Sand Reserve', the first…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, … Reading: Truth and Reconciliation…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes called bantustans black … ”” unnecessary “Coloured” is a loaded term…
PlaceSuggested Gandhi Trail, Through Durban
… prejudice." M.K Gandhi spent about 20 years in South Africa , predominantly in the Natal area. His experiences in South Africa are considered the formative…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… it to fruition than initially expected. This makes me all the more grateful for the tolerance that has come my way …
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… to pull you back in time, while not really moving much at all. I rattle out onto the road, that strange Karoo wind …