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EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 431 Wallis, F. (2000) …
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… presumed that he would become the Prime Minister of South Africa following B.J. Vorster's term of office. In 1977, …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… organised, democratic trade union movement in South Africa. FOSATU resisted affiliation with political parties, …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… her life in the turmoil of our transition as the new South Africa struggled to be born in the dying moments of …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… that led up to the first democratic election in South Africa was the reason that the ANC demanded that the carrying …
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… known as the 'Third Force') that wanted to make South Africa ungovernable. Mandela believed that state security …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… growing reports that the Security Forces in South Africa were collaborating with IFP migrant workers to damage …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… for her novel Maru. In March 1964, Head left South Africa on an exit permit and settled in Botswana. She was a …
EventTruman Prince, the controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality, is suspended
… party known as Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (Icosa). Two members of Icosa have since referred to …
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… being one of the wealthiest countries mineral wise in Africa. References: Laurent-Desire Kabila (online), available …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… before his death lost his license to practice in South Africa. After the fall of apartheid, five former policemen, …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the … Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993). South Africa in the 20th Century , Pretoria:…
EventAlan Paton is born
… the National Party came to power in the Union of South Africa and instituted apartheid. The publication of Cry, the …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… become a hugely popular sport among White people in South Africa. The match took place in Green Point, Cape Town … Morgan, B., 2011. Rugby in South Africa …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… other homelands, was incorporated to form part of South Africa’s nine provinces. It is now part of the North West …
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… maximum" in view of hottest developments concerning South Africa. These developments relate to the unrest following the … Cape Times , 16 February 1962, …
PlacePolokwane
… . It is the capital of the Limpopo Province . It is South Africa's largest urban centre North of Gauteng . It used to …
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… 1837 and therefore the oldest Municipality in South Africa! John Molteno bought some land in the arid, Beaufort … 1837 and therefore the oldest Municipality…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… and historical art from South, West and Central Africa. The Wits Arts Museum hosts an array of events and art …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African nation …
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… Department of Transport and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) for their respective roles in the successful …
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Park which includes both the Richtersveld in South Africa and Ai-Ais in Namibia. The hiking routes from Ai-Ais, …
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… whilst they watch the sun set and listen to some of South Africa's best live music performances. Concerts go ahead …
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… whose son, Sir John Wessels, became Chief Justice of South Africa. Various members of the ‘family lived on the estate. …
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one of South Africa’s most talented, but least recognized, documentary …
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few individuals have been recorded from Zambia. …
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… released in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. In 1999, at the end of his first term in …
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… War arrived in Saldana Bay, on the west coast of South Africa, to resupply. During the course of the American Civil …