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EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… party. At the time the NP was the ruling party in South Africa as it came to power in 1948. It was F.W. de Klerk who, …
EventThe 4 x 100m men's relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… (2nd) and the US team (3rd). The triumph was South Africa's fourth gold medal since re-admission to the Olympics …
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… need to implement Operation Mayibuye (Operation Come Back Africa) if it were adopted, to advance from sporadic sabotage … envisaged 7 000 guerrilla fighters…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
… ANC in particular - that such a storm will not come. South Africa should not again experience conflict based on racial, … Perhaps this is the greatest new…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… at development will fail. Through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the African Union's programme, … with a transition from one of the…
PlaceGreyville Racecourse and Convention Centre, Durban
… the Royal Durban Golf Course and is Home to South Africa’s premier horse race and fashion event, the Durban … a Thoroughbred Race Track in Durban, KwaZulu…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… the governance of a sophisticated country involves. South Africa is not a colony that is now becoming independent; it … breakthrough towards peace. On 31 May…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… and the African Communist, and Mabhida for Angola and East Africa. And equally important, was the demarcation of … was that he integrated the Party's…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
… water, in 1990, Bitterfontein became the location of South Africa’s first desalination plant which provides fresh water … Once an integral train terminus and…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… and a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic South Africa. One of your very important qualities that stands out … the unshakeable foundations of what you have…
EventRiaan Cruywagen was born on this day
… this day, Riaan Cruywagen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was educated at Stellenbosch University and where …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
… Literature and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa by Daniel P. Kunene; Days with Poona Poon by Luli …
Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… gender, 57.29%, because like in most villages of South Africa, the men venture off to cities, to find work and …
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
… Supply Co., who then sold it to the Standard Bank of South Africa. They established a branch in the building and used it …
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… has lived his life and why he was able to lead South Africa from the repression of apartheid into a peaceful …
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… Lodge Museum, Groote Kerk (the oldest church in South Africa) and the Company Gardens. During Christmas, the street …
EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
… the fire. Setting trains on fire is not unusual in South Africa. Commuters often use this method to express their …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, with Thabana Ntlenyana the highest peak in the …
EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
… the next morning. The uprising that would change South Africa began the following day. … at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 14 June 2013]| South Africa…
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… not found Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983. …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… part in the historic first democratic elections in South Africa. …
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, …
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… to make people recognise its 'independence' from South Africa. Though the charges were dropped, the Bophuthatswana …
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… for three weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west Africa. On the same day exactly 10 years later, on 25 … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventFraud and Corruption on the rise in SA
… that fraud and corruption were escalating in South Africa. Powell announced that people resort to desperate …
EventF.W. de Klerk delivers his farewell address to Parliament
… Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela, pioneered South Africa into a new democratic dispensation. Click here to read …
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… References: Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. Dr Nnoseng Kuzwayo. …
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… contribution to the betterment of education in South Africa, in particular that of Black people. …
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Commonwealth leaders that included then President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki. The suspension meant that the country …
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to catalogue the stars, nebulae, and other objects of …