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EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… Football League (NFL) was formed. The league was founded by twelve football clubs from Johannesburg and Pretoria, none …
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
… passed with unanimous vote. The motion was also accepted by the British Government as representing the majority of the …
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by Anton Rupert. The first cigarettes were manufactured in an …
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… writers to be honoured with a State President's Award by Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the latter's retirement. …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… that HIV/Aids is a deadly disease that can be contracted by anyone and is currently not curable. The United Nations …
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… in the famous Lancaster House Agreement brokered by Britain's Lord Carrington, leading to Zimbabwe's …
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… translated the Communist Manifesto, with an introduction by Leon Trotsky, into …
EventThe ship São Bento (St Benedict) is wrecked on the Transkei coast
… on cargo carrying ability. According to research done by South African archaeologists, C. Auret and .T.Maggs in …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… on 21 October 2003. Brereton claims she was recruited by a British-born spy, who took advantage of her social …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… and prime movers of the United Democratic Front (UDF). By the mid 1980s the UDF umbrella housed over 700 …
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… also occurred during his term of office. He was succeeded by Kofi Annan in 1997. Ghali held a number of prominent …
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… it helped to crush the Rand Revolt , an armed uprising by white mineworkers. The SAAF bombed targets around …
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… Shezi of the Cube chiefdom, near the Nkandla forest. By now, general lawlessness had broken out in many districts … Research Council, .| Hermann Giliomee and…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… attacking key military installations in territories held by the British. And clearly, the Anglo-Boer war was far from … Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B (2007) A…
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… the Transvaal. An Afrikaner revolt in December 1880, led by Paul Kruger , prompted the First Anglo-Boer War …
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… breadth of the African continent. Map of equatorial Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron and Henry Morton Stanley, 1870. …
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to …
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… home in Durban. The Elephant House was originally used by the Milner brothers, Henry, Philip and Thomas, as a …
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… members, four survived, and barely escaped being attacked by the mob at the gruesome scene. Only 66 of the bodies could …
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… with Disabilities, which as we know, was adopted in 1999 by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). I therefore hope … as the Universal Declaration of Human…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… quest for God-given rights, which had been denied to us by the apartheid regime. Since the attainment of freedom and … the region, we have upheld the…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, "The … according to the way they have been …
2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… because they are in hospital or lying at home immobilised by one ailment or another. We wish all of these a speedy … grants, as well the reparations due to…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… Ditsie’s participation at the conference was not welcomed by the organisation who felt that spotlighting women was a …
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… in the United States of America.[v] He married an American by the name of Liesl, and the couple shares a son named …
PlaceAmatikulu, a Nature Reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… first sugar factory in Zululand was established in 1908 by Sir J.L. Hulett . Roughly an hour's drive from Durban, the … New Dictionary of South African Names…
PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… Farm. Ceres lies hidden away in a Valley surrounded by the Mountains of the Boland, accessed only via … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… who are subject to loss of territory, which has been taken by an occupying power. In 2012 South Africa adopted the …
EventRiky Rick, one of the most esteemed South African hip hop artists is born
… and actor. Ricky Rick is produces his own unique sound by harmonizing a blend of South African hip hop and …
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… struggle against apartheid. The museum was opened in 1947 by South Africa’s then Prime Minister General Jan Smuts, …