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PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Riebeeck Square to build a theatre upon the site. This was opened on 17 November 1800 …
ArchiveWorkers Library Launch 22 OCtober 1988 Tape
… Speeches and cultural performance to launch the Workers Library and to explain how the Workers library came about and to describe it aims. …
ArchiveStephen Sihewula was the applicant
… Government responses to applications by the Mfengu people to return to their land in the Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area from which …
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near … distinctive light signature that…
EventDusi Canoe Marathon commences
… on 22 December 1951, when eight individuals arranged to canoe from Alexandra Park in Pietermaritzburg to … had to make their way through the Umsindusi, the…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… launched at the Rockland Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid organizations that … town the all white governing Nationalist…
ArchiveWhere do we stand?: APDUSA and a nation free of race hatred and oppression
… and particularly in the Western province, attempts to split-up the Non-Whites into various groups with their own policeman-chiefs. The discussion goes on to…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… The South African Missionary Society, established a ministry in Wagenmakersvallei in 1796 and ministered to slaves and to detribalised Khoikhoi people who…
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… facility located in Tokai,Cape Town. This prison was meant to host only 3900 inmates but now has 8 900! Today the … the past. Former President Nelson Mandela…
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… Edward Roworth was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… and community worker, was born in Durban. She moved to London where she completed her degree in Medicine at the … was known for her medical work, she was…
EventNUSAS disbands
… National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the … it had adopted the Freedom Charter and…
EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… Close to 20 million lives a year are lost to cardiovascular … day. The first World Heart Day was celebrated in 2000 as a joint initiative between World Heart…
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… Egyptian parliament while he was presenting the proposal to declare war. He was only four months in office when he was assassinated, having come to power in…
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Service and Administration. He has worked tirelessly to eradicate corruption by members of his department who were … the creation of the South African Social…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… Major Allister Mackintosh Miller secured a government subsidy and introduced the first official … headquarters in Port Elizabeth, flew a regular service to…
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… campaigns were seen as another way of the ANC trying to establish itself on grassroots level, thus positioning … anticipation of elections in future. These…
EventRecognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
… the legal position of customary marriages, which were up to the anactment not recognised as valid marriages before the … the equal status and capacity of the…
EventCrime statistics released
… of 1995, an average of one in every 29 minutes. This marks a 7% reduction, a big improvement, as compared to 1994. National Police Commissioner George Fivaz…
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… strike at the Brakpan Electric Works. The workers marched to Boksburg where they demanded that they air their … in compounds and the harsh conditions under…
EventChief of the Lebelo group of the Ndebele, Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, dies
… Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, died on the farm Leeukraal, to the north of Hammanskraal and was buried at Wallmansthal. … an African teacher and later obtaining…
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
… Lord Chelmsford (British Commander) moved on Ndini, and in a final onslaught, known as the battle of Ulundi, secured … killed and King Cetshwayo (King of the…
EventBattle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war)
… Orange and Vaal Rivers (the Orange River Sovereignty). Due to border disputes with the Basotho the British eventually … from Cornetspruit and the Orange…
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… the Boers since 2 November 1899. They were besieged almost a month after the outbreak of the Second South African War … broke out in October 1899. Ladysmith…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… Joy Adamson died under mysterious circumstances in a Kenyan bush. Initially it was reported that she was attacked to death in the bush by a lion, but further…
Democracy in Action
… Democracy in action, published by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), outlines the extensive efforts of the Institute to…
ArchiveThe philosophy tenets and traditions of NEUM
… A presidential address delivered at the 9th Conference of the … in 1945, and how this programme will enable South Africa to embark on the road to freedom and…
EventThe Pretoria Show is opened for all races
… annual event that began as an agricultural show and grew to include arts, entertainment, education and exhibitions … over the years. The show began in 1939…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the … only did Zerfifi paint, but she also used…
ArchiveImmorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950
… The Act was to amend the Immorality Act, 1927, so as to prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and non-Europeans, and to provide for matters…