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EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… The discovery was declared the richest strike in South Africa's history. According to reports, no shares soared as …
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… JSE Nicky Newton-King and CEO of Airports Company South Africa Monhla Hlahla among many others. It was highlighted …
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… about guerrilla warfare and a diary he had kept during his Africa trip. The accused appeared beÂfore Justice Quartus de … H. and Mbenga, B. (2007). New…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… days after he made his famous speech "Winds of Change In Africa" in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his … on Apartheid' ,[Available at National…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… species native to South Western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. It is boldly stripped in black and white or brown …
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… aspects of the history of sculpture in 20th-century South Africa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1989, p.124 …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial School in the …
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… they had succeeded in focusing world attention on South Africa's use of detention without trail. They also criticised …
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… in Zimbabwe in 1987, was released and returned to South Africa. On her arrival, she was greeted by President F.W. de …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… release can be seen as the beginning of the new South Africa. …
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… [Accessed 15 March 2010] The State Outside South Africa between 1960 and 1990,[ online ], Available, at: …
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… that would be very valuable in treating malaria in South Africa, where people suffer from the disease in certain parts …
EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… the Biggest Wave accolade (2005) at the annual Big Wave Africa event at Dungeons in Cape Town. … Anon, (2006), 'South Africa's Grant Baker wins Mavericks…
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people. …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first time in South Africa for refusing to carry an obligatory identity document …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… the Johannesburg town was already the largest in South Africa, outstripping the growth of Cape Town. On 28 September … Giliomee, H. & Mbenga, B. (2007). New…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… 000 world-wide. The largest Rastafarian community in South Africa is situated in Knysna and comprises of 30 families …
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16 December 1995 the name was changed once more …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… in his condemnation of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. He was knighted in 1960 by Queen Elizabeth II. …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… medicine, but studied law instead. On his return to South Africa, he studied nature at the Waterberg in Pretoria. He …
EventSA is banned from the Olympic Games
… (IOC) decided in Baden Baden, Germany, that South Africa would have to eliminate racial discrimination in sport … Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993)…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… by European nations that became known as the Scramble for Africa. The region today known as Kenya had previously been … to white farmers, who mostly moved…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it … Apartheid, which called for…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… as follows: “It has never happened in the history of South Africa, Mr Speaker, that in one moment, by one fell swoop, …
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… as follows: “It has never happened in the history of South Africa, Mr Speaker, that in one moment, by one fell swoop, …
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… The History of the first Anglican Church in Southern Africa, is beautifully documented in a book published in …
On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013
… indebted to Comrade Tambo who delivered back to South Africa a united and strong African National Congress …
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… some of the most diverse and complex geology in Southern Africa, including some of the richest known concentrations of …
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… attempted to become an effective political force in South Africa. The Party was formed in May 1953 as a non-racial …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… ESSAY: Serote's, To Every Birth Its Blood within Southern Africa's, Literature of Liberation, Martin Trump. POETRY: The …