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EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It…
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… The Sharpeville massacre and its aftermath drew him closer to the African National Congress (ANC). He was renowned for … entrusted to him by the leadership…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… was born in Newcastle, Natal. As minister he formulated a new policy and restructured the Department of Transport (DoT). During the years prior to his…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. The riots … councillors and mayors to…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana. Tiro was completing…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Dr. H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's first atomic reactor, … was not intended for the production of nuclear energy on a commercial scale, but was employed…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… groups agreed after preparatory talks in Johannesburg on a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Voters went to the polls (7-11 November) to vote for a Constituent Assembly in the first all-race and…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape burghers against the incumbent Governor W. A. van der Stel and other farming…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, … president. He was overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971 and fled to Tanzania. He returned with the…
EventHolomisa on corruption
… head of Sun International, had donated two million rand to the African National Congress (ANC) before the 1994 … elections. Holomisa claimed this was an…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a private project undertaken to extract rubber…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… dies in Umhlanga, Natal. He was the first Black person to receive an honorary D.Phil. from a South African University. Dube, who is of royal descent, ……
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… The Centre for Curating the Archive, invites you to A House in Harrington Street, by Nicholas Eppel. Eppel’s … Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and stand…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort Hare College in 1932. He was ordained in … same year in the Bantu Presbyterian…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… Letta Mbulu was born in Soweto on 23 August 1942. As a teenager she joined the cast of the play King Kong and … Hugh Masekela. At the end of the tour Mbulu…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… of segregated residential areas with Africans being forced to move to the periphery of the city. African people and … designated areas such as New Brighton…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… rocket fire. Habyarimana and Ntayamira were returning from a meeting of east and central African leaders in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, at which they discussed…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… The passive resistance movement began on 30 March 1919 when a mass meeting of two thousand Africans in Vrededorp decided to reject the passes. The next day,…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… one of the meetings at Dakawa, Tanzanian Field Force had to be called in to stabilise the situation as the meeting turned chaotic. … of political and…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a beautiful Italian style interior with an attractive … sandstone exterior. The Bloemfontein City Hall…
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… Steve Biko was the number forty sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. And for … how political detainees are treated. What exactly…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… in Grassy Park, Cape Town. He began playing cricket at a very young age. Although he became famous as a bowler, as a young boy he had played as a batsman,…
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… at Company’s Garden in Cape Town in 1908. It features a full body replica of Rhodes wearing a three-piece suit, standing with his left hand raised and … of…
The new policy of the USA towards South Afri
… written by the Black People's Convention in response to the invitation to have talks with Mr Andrew Young the Unites States Ambassador to the United Nations,…
ArchiveCommittees Drift go-ahead
… Press cutting relating to the Government's go-ahead with the Committeees Drift Glenmore scheme to resettle Black people from Grahamstown in the Ciskei. ……
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: rejection of foreign investment
… National Congress held in December 1973 resolved to reject the involvement of foreign investors and this letter sent from BPC to 31 foreign firms calls on…
ArchiveHuhudi Youth Organisation
… Red and white, with artwork of a house with the name of the township Pudumong on; and a person standin in front, with his ribs looking undernourished from…
ArchiveTussle at VW over tour kombis
… The All Blacks rugby tour was called off in July just a week before the team was due to leave New Zealand. It was determined protest and resistance to the…