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EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… 1969, Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist … leaders of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… collectives since 1991, and I can confidently say that as a leadership we are proud of the single-mindedness with which … in municipalities. We remain…
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn … the skull in 1947 just outside Pretoria,…
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… The Wonderboom Nature Reserve and is Home to a 1000 Year Old Fig Tree, or Ficus Salicifolia, known as … The tree has subsequently been damaged by fire in…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
… The Shagana Village is home to the Shangana people who speak isiTsonga, one of the … villages are set in the shade of ancient trees in a reserve of forest…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… of Hastings Banda’s early life, and the man himself seemed a mass of contradictions. He was at one and the same time a quiet, Westernized, doctor, and a…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving…
PlaceRustenburg
… known History of Rustenburg spans from the 15th Century to the post-Apartheid city, and the Town has become the … Hoff and the establishment of the Dutch…
PlaceOld Presidency
… former Republic of the Orange Free State, it was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 January … President Johannes Brand submitted…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … he sought exemption imposed disabilities upon Indians as a group, regardless of…
Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
… National Congress, met today in its regular session to deal with organizational matters. One of the issues that … violent protest outside Luthuli House. The…
PlaceKookfontein
… rich kelp coast of the Atlantic Ocean, five kilometres to the West. During the summer months a cool, crisp sea breeze influences the ripening process of our…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… recent history, Norman Levy's autobiography combines a narrative of individual experience with South African … economic and political history. Norman Levy…
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… When Lourens Geldenhuys was 14, his father moved them to the gold reef, where their farm began searching for gold, … his portion 'Emmarentai', after his wife…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… South Africa. Masekela grew up playing the piano and at a young age was introduced to the trumpet by Father Trevor Huddleston. Masekela mastered … who helped…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggression, and good-neighbourliness pact, on the … On 16 March 1984, South Africa and Mozambique…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… In the statement Bacher acknowledged that it was time to compromise and that the event had been overrun by the … that SACU, which had organised the tour, had…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… the Mandela United Football Club had brought the 4 youths to Winnie's home for interrogation. Jerry Richardson was … to assault, but her six-year jail…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… after twenty-three years in prison. His release followed a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… activists during his service as commander of a police unit, C10 based at Vlakplaas, a farm outside … also convicted of scores of lesser crimes, from…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EBF) also known as Ebola virus a virus that kills its host by attacking the lining of the … is thought that bats harbour the…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… and Britain from 1899-1902, the British forces, according to the "scorched earth" policy, herded White women and … of the British parliament, resulting in…
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria replied that … in events leading to the founding of the town. Rissik was a principal clerk attached to the…
PlaceEnon
… Enon is a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is named … on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob Glen Cuyler, to serve as a buffer between the…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… SA prime minister and later State President from 1978 to 1989, Pieter Willem Botha, died peacefully at the age of … the George Medi-Clinic two weeks ago,…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. Doyle was a trained medical doctor, who had graduated from Edinburgh University in 1881. Thanks to his…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, after being met with a furious city population in Table Bay. In February 1849, The … set sail from England, with 300…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… nineteen Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members following a tip-off that IFP marchers were planning to attack the building. The Nugent Commission of Inquiry on …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… after the Group Areas Act was first introduced. According to this act, urban areas were to be divided into racially … were created for the exclusive…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group of three men led by Andre Stander, a former police detective. While still a detective,…