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EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… in the Kwazulu homeland claims that attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) men on United Democratic Front …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… anti-apartheid and community activism was complemented by that of his wife Leah. She championed the cause for better …
EventThe French Foreign Legion is founded
… The elite French Foreign Legion was founded by King Louis-Philippe as a military unit to support the …
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… Francois Villion (later Viljoen), arrived at the Cape. By 1692, a total of 201 French Huguenots had settled at the … 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|…
EventWorld Aids Day
… be observed as World Aids Day. The step was motivated by the growing realisation that, unlike other pandemics like …
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… in west-central Africa. The team of researchers, led by Paul Sharp of Nottingham University and Beatrice Hahn of …
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… upper hand over Bafana Bafana on the day and won the game by three goals to nil. Dieter Hamann, Oliver Bierhoff and …
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… Africa, which did much to popularise flight in the country by touring the main centres and offering flights to the …
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… 1913 he was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi as part of the Sathyagraha Campaign. In …
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… subsequently amended to Bethulie. The Village was occupied by Boer forces on 16 October 1899 during the Second Anglo …
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was manned by the Frontier and Mounted (FAM) Police. It was named after …
EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… 2001, LIASA initiated a drive to have one week recognised by the South African Government as National Library Week to …
EventBritain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty
… into thirteen separate chiefdoms under a chief elected by the British who was complaint to British rule. The treaty …
EventLiberia is established
… white bands symbolize the 11 men who declared independence by signing the Liberian Declaration of Independence, the …
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… mobilize resistance on a national scale to participation by Indians and Coloureds in the new Constitution. In 1983, …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… race groups in South Africa. The flag was designed by Frederick G. Brownell, from theState Herald of the …
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… between police and Israelites. The battle was triggered by Colonel Truter’s final ultimatum demanding that the …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… in a coma. Her death was reported to have been caused by a cocaine overdose. …
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… of his favourite pastimes and his talent was soon spotted by Kaizer Chief Scouts, who signed him up. He went on to …
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… The Special Committee against Apartheid was established by the General Assembly under resolution 1761 (XVII) of … , ‘The Special Committee against Apartheid…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… their political activities and she was constantly harassed by the Security Police. She was buried next to her husband, …
EventThe State Theatre in Pretoria opens
… in the country rely on public funding. This was brought on by the embarrassing 2000 investment scam that saw millions …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… procedures for its transfer. The resolution was supported by eighty-five votes, two against (Portugal and South Africa) …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… Kuzwayo died in 2006 at the age of 91. She is survived by her two sons. …
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… of this dwelling dates from the 1840s and was built by Henry Green, Assistant Commissioner-General of the Orange …
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
… of the rest of the victims were said to have been claimed by relatives. The exact number of victims who lost their …
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… you wanted to? or to what extent where you constrained by an academic board of control? HW: I got the job because … David Welsh. And then that was followed…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… Asians, the arrival of the French Huguenots and much later by the arrival of the British settlers. It was especially the … However, the church's contribution…
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… wines he was getting squeezed out of the wine business by the bigger players. Eventually in 1969 he was offered, and … the farm are excited to watch his…
PlaceAlexander Bay, Namaqualand
… with the very first becoming known as the Eureka diamond. By 1871, more diamonds were found in the vicinity of the … sailed. A heavy winch still clung to the…