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PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 January 1941. …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 of 1956, prohibiting any outside gathering that the …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… President F.W. de Klerk announced a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his …
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… Okaharui ambushed German forces killing 32 and wounding 17 German troops. Von Glasenapp's forces were also suffering …
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guehenno, who represented 17,600 peacekeepers overseeing the elections, the largest UN … | https://english.peopledaily.com.cn…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… exclusive casino rights in the Transkei Province. On 17 January 1989, after two years of investigations, Kerzner … (1995) Police move closer to Sol from Mail…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he published his first article. At 21 he published his …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… in his home country, but received a negative response. On 17 June 1920, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from … that Africans seek to control those…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… Party in the Cape Province who had been arrested in 1964 under the dreaded 90-day detention law (the General Law … Snape building protest is freely available…
ArticleThe Johanna
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
"They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... They asked if they would be…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Elected at the first annual National Congress held on 16-17 December 1972 in Hammanskraal Winnifred Kgware - President …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 June 1977. …
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… On 17 August 1970, two top South African scientists were refused …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… to Lumumba’s arrest. He was executed by a firing squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… captured. On 1 December he was imprisoned at Thysville. On 17 January 1961 he was flown to Elisabethville in Katanga …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… by the bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, on 17 June. Tributes were made by, among others, Chief Albert …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, was born in …
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
The Portuguese cargo ship Santo Alberto was wrecked on the coast of Pondoland, south-west of the mouth of the Umtata River. Through admirable leadership of the…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… building at 78 Fox Street. The bank has grown to span 17 African countries and 16 countries across South East Asia, …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… to exploit the mineral resources by white South Africa. In 1964, South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) was …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew. Part one Harry Snitcher 1, …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… of I.U.S. formed the International Student Conference in 1964 but it had to dissolve in 1968 due to internal problems. …
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… in itself sufficient reason for the house arrest notice.” [17] The house arrest was set to last five years, and Sonia … 1962. [4] Edward Feit, Urban Revolt…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… in July 1963. His statement from the dock on 21 April 1964 inspired people in a world splintered by racial and … of negotiations. On the eve of general…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for 18:00 on Tuesday, 22 August, at the New Lecture … Avenue South, Upper Campus, University of…
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 February 1961. Riebeeck Square (block bounded by …