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EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… suggesting that their Plan of Action was not well received by voters. …
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… a Prime Minister after winning the August 1960 elections by 70 seats out of 71 in the Tanganyika Assembly. The United …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… The boycott, one of the most successful undertaken by the African National Congress (ANC) to that date, was …
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… since the diamond industry during that period was flooded by diamonds, which led to a price plummet and resulted in the …
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… The attack on Indians by Zulus in January 1949 has generated a great deal of debate …
EventPretoria receives city status
… official city status. The city was established in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who …
EventDavid Kitson released
… his twenty-year sentence for sabotage. Kitson, an engineer by profession, was sentenced in December 1964 for his part in …
EventSA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against Ireland
… South Africa next month (June 2009). The team is captained by Irish lock Paul O'Connell, so South Africa will come up …
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… issue. Despite the Soweto Uprisings, which took the world by surprise, Kissinger, felt Vorster remained the only key to …
EventOAU Council of Ministers decide to reject dialogue with South Africa
… world public opinion". South Africa had been ostracized by the international community because of its apartheid … Greenwood.| No Compromise with Apartheid:…
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… to grant her a divorce. After being sentenced to death by hanging on November 1969, Groesbeek was executed on 13 …
EventThe Springbok rugby team receives the State President Sports Award
… in the Lady Ann Barnard Room at the Castle, presented by the State President J.J. Fouche. It is significant that …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… and degrading prison conditions. After several appeals by his family members for his release due to ill health, Bram …
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… to turn the country upside down. The sentence was welcomed by the African National Congress (ANC), and thousands of …
EventResumption of talks
… and the release of political prisoners. It was believed by those close to the discussions that the main stumbling …
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… and within the country to address rallies organised by the ANC. On 2 April 1990, Mandela was elected Deputy …
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… the crowd. Fighting between youths and taximen, supported by vigilante groups, continued late into the night. When …
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… a classic example of a controlled cover-up, particularly by powerless victims who had had bad experience at the hands …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… Weekly Mail for R1, 5 million. The lawsuit was sparked by newspaper reports in which former police captain Dirk …
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… him alight. Despite the fact that the murder was argued by the defence as the collective responsibility of the mob, …
EventBafana Bafana loses to England
… parity in the 17th minute through the penalty scored by Benni McCarthy after England defender Danny Mills handled …
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… west of the river. The Ncome Museum, its design inspired by the Zulu war horn formation, offers a re-interpretation of … African Government Information, …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… within the African National Congress (ANC) hierarchy by those who felt it was unwise to have a premier in the …
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… ensued in which the robber was shot in the groin. Max, by now enraged, bit Constable Robert Tshabalala on his arm …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… its nuclear weapons in 1993, as it was initially claimed by the then State President F. W. de Klerk , and that the …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… the Orange Free State and Northern Cape and was appalled by the conditions. She set up the South African Women and …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… of the impi yamakhanda (1906 uprising) as reported by J. L. Dube in Ilanga Lase Natal, with special focus on …
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… stipulated was that no slave trade was to be allowed. By 1890 the BSAC and white settlers had occupied the fertile …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… to independence. In 2001 Geldenhuys was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the role … Tia-bookstore, “We Were There” by…
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
… got caught in bad weather and was forced to abandon it by launching her parachute. She was spotted landing in water, …