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EventPeter Mokaba is born
… Peter Mokaba, a notable freedom fighter and patriot, was born on 7 January 1959. Mokoba played a significant role in the struggle for freedom especially ……
EventSally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top
… 1951. By the age of 17, Sally Little had claimed more than a dozen national and regional amateur titles, and in 1970 was … African Sportsman of the Year. In…
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… called the Taung child , was found embedded in rock at a mine near Taung, a village 400 miles southwest of Johannesburg . When Raymond … but was more human…
Everard Read Art Gallery
… its midst. The new landmark building, which is now home to the Everard Read Gallery, exhibits post-modern … about nature conservation, and therefore the…
PlaceParow
… Parow was a Residential Suburb of Cape Town located some 16km from the … Heinrich Ferdinand Parow was born on 1 March 1833 in a Province of Deutschland…
ANC statement on the outcome of the officials meeting held at Luthuli House, 18 February 2002
… member of this committee. The purpose of the meeting was to deliberate on strategic organizational issues that relate to the ANC. On the agenda, a briefing…
Outcome of the High Court Application, 12 February 2014
… from being near Chief Albert Luthuli House or causing harm to ANC staff and property. The decision facilitated by Judge Mojapelo secured a binding and…
ANC statement on incident at Luthuli House, 29 February 2008
… has been evacuated following an incident at the entrance to the building. The details of the incident are as follows: A man entered the front door of the…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… (now Mpumalanga), recruited workers were expected to work long hours on farms in extreme weather conditions, … took up the story in 1952, after coming in…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… attack on Indians by Zulus in January 1949 has generated a great deal of debate about the relationship between the two … believe that the Durban Riots of…
EventThe Springbok rugby team receives the State President Sports Award
… sports competitions, including rugby. The Award was handed to Corrie Bornman, Springboks' team manager. It was in the form of a medal framed with a…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… Richard Goldstone as chairman, released its findings of a "dirty tricks" campaign against the African National … centre run by Military Intelligence and…
EventResumption of talks
… an invitation for urgent talks with State President F.W. de Klerk on political violence. Cyril Ramaphosa said he was prepared to meet Roelf Meyer, Minister…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… 1990, at the opening of parliament, former state president F.W De Klerk made an unanticipated and startling statement … organisations. The move made it…
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which was to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… Coetzee alleged that Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan … stated that: "The fact that the court…
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… them on the grounds that there was no sufficient evidence to justify keeping the men behind bars. He pointed out that the government had failed to present a…
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, a…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… plight of women and girls, who are six times more likely to be infected with the Aids virus than men in South Africa. … the venue free of charge, but also…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… resurfaced in KwaZulu Natal in the late 90's. In order to prevent open hostilities the ANC, IFP and United Democratic Movement (UDM) convened a meeting in…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… Smuts, who said he had not expected the 33-year-old Steyn to do more than keep Verwoerd busy in the run-up to the election. After years in the opposition, he…
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… as it was initially claimed by the then State President F. W. de Klerk , and that the nuclear weapons programme had … of right-wing extremists, while others…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… Kitchner, presented the British final peace proposals to the Boer negotiators after the South African War. Milner … as final, and advised the Republic Peace…
EventFirst mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg
… activities on 20 September 1886 on the farm Randjeslaagte, a piece of rocky 'left-over' ground, after surrounding farms had been surveyed. The digging was to…
EventGerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef
… On 6 April 1874, Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen bought a section of the farm Langlaagte for £100. This farm would later be declared a part of the…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
… times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the Gools, …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to South African parents. His parents moved back to South Africa and settled in Port Elizabeth. He…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence in 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first … like it or not, this growth of…
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… scheduled for 29 May 1996. Inevitably the elections had to be postponed to the end of June. The announcement was made by former President, Nelson Mandela…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). … his Junior Certificate. He also studied…