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ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… August Seme, Lucas (ANC) From Swazi police cells 11 December Schneider, Daniel (Swiss) From Mbabane, … Africa by security police. Bischoff, Corinne …
EventSABC personality Nic Swanepoel dies
… for a period of thirty-three years before he retired in 1995. During his flourishing career, Swanepoel was awarded …
EventPirates win the African Champions Cup
… Orlando Pirates won the Second Leg of the 1995 African Champions Cup (ACC) Final against ASEC Mimosas …
EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
… African Independent Churches. Sources: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… that the Herero are planning an attack on the Germans. 11 January, Provisional Governor Richter reports, on the … the region to other mission stations and…
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
… important to them? 10. When did they eat their cattle? 11. What work did the Khoikhoi women do? 12. What work …
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… members of the NGOs which supported the LPM. [10] [11] In 2004, the LPM organised a boycott of the National … 2004, pp. 18-19) ↵ [10](Greenberg, 2004, pp. 19…
PlaceEllis Park
… in South African sporting history, most memorably the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, where South Africa recorded its … sporting achievement after years of…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923 Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, … Secretariat of the International Communist…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… government. After spending 12 months on death row, on 11 September 1980 the Bloemfontein Appeal Court commuted … death sentences. After spending four years…
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… would recall for leading the Springboks to victory in the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup. Pienaar was preceded as captain …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU). On 24 November 1995, Ramokhoase became the first black mayor of Pretoria. He …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe dies in East London
… Zinyoka, King William's Town. Sources: Verwey, E. J. (1995). New dictionary of South African Biography, Vol. 1 , …
EventRamzi Yousef, alleged mastermind of World Trade centre bombing goes on trial
… Intelligence and the U.S Diplomatic Security Service in 1995, and was extradited to the United States. On 5 August …
EventFinance Minister Chris Liebenberg presents his budget
… perpetual economic growth, registering 3.5 per cent in 1995, the highest since 1988. …
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… best preserved of all pieces of South African rock art. In 1995, the panel featured as one of the premiere attractions …
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… dictionary. References: Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, …
EventA Zairian aircraft crashes in Angola, killing 141 people.
… On 18 December 1995, a Lockheed L-188C Electra plane owned by Zaire’s (now …
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… his own musical career, and the South African courts. On 11 September 2010, Mbuli helped to establish the first annual … R. 1992. Mzwakhe Mbuli. Spin, 93-94…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… wife, also a person of exceptional courage, was one of the 11 women who crossed into Natal to incite the rail-way … 11 … Swan, Gandhi, the South African…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… and the United Kingdom Embassy in Pretoria was attacked. 11 February, Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC, freed after … led by Nelson Mandela would open in…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… the University of South Africa. Source: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, …
BiographyCecyl Esau
… the Internal Security Act of 1982. He was accused number 11 in S v L.B. Ngqungwana and 14 others. The accused were … 1987-1991 . Kronos [online]. 2008, vol…
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd . On 28 June 1995 Verwoerdburg acquired a new name; Centurion. Centurion …
ArticleZulu Family History
… Chief of the Bahurutse Bagamoilwa. Civil ceremony July 11, 2004 in Pongola. HRH Princess Nandi Zulu (by Queen …
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
… by President Nelson Mandela on the morning of 14 February 1995. The judges took oaths of office wearing their specially …
EventSouth African athlete and Africa high-jump record holder Hestrie Cloete is born in Germiston, Transvaal
… 13 when she was discovered by her coach Martin Marx. From 1995 Cloete enjoyed success in athletics; taking gold year …
EventPaul Kibii Tergat Kenyan professional long distance runner is born
… IAAF World Cross Country Championships titles, from 1995 to 1999. He came second in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 … [online] Available at: www.paul-tergat.net …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… was a reform imposed from above, and existed for about 11 years, in a manner many characterised as farcical. It was …
EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… literary work Sebatakgomo. References Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , …