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EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
… African Regional Tourism Council. South Africa continued to have good relations with white colonial governments in … fall of the Portuguese government in a…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… Zurich and FC Baden. He was one of the first few players to play for the national team, affectionately known as Bafana … Bafana at a time when South Africans…
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… In 1929, H Live commissioned architect Ritchie McKinlay to design a building which, according to local tradition, would serve as a naval college. McKinlay is…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… interactive museum of local rugby history that’s designed to entertain the whole family. The experience tells the … ‘Springbok Trials’ game zone, challenging…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave him up for adoption when he was nine … menial jobs. He later joined the army…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… Estate, originally known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms … from her home in Lubeck on the Baltic…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… The comrades of the Cape Town Lenin Club have asked us to intervene immediately in the discussions now taking place. … may be. the IS advises the comrades of…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… Our thoughts and prayers are with the Mandela family. To them we owe a debt of gratitude. They have sacrificed … the loss of the one person who, more than…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… workers for the sugar cane plantations, many chose to remain after their 4 year contracts had ended and brought their families to come over, from India to…
EventWorld Council of Churches representatives barred from entering South Africa
… that he would not consider allowing a WCC delegation to come to South Africa under any conditions. Nor would he allow any funds to be sent from South Africa…
Cape Town Book Sale 2017
… around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell you that you have a right to be excited. From Friday, 16 to Sunday, 18 June 2017 the V&A…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) . The project moved to South Africa in 1992, with Johannesburg and Cape Town organisations putting in bids to have it…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… food, heating and transport. In 1981 Dulcie was seconded to work in the ANC Head office in Lusaka, Zambia. One of her tasks was to assist with fund-raising…
PlaceSalt River
… is not known but in 1665 the Settlement is recorded to have overlooked a Fjord over the River and to have consisted of an Inn and several Fishermen's…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which stretched across the Bay and was … Actually the beautiful upmarket Suburb…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… line was officially opened by Paul Kruger. Its link to Pretoria was completed on 20 October 1894.The railway line … on the southeast coast of Mozambique, was…
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… Mali in the North, and Guinea and Liberia in the East. To the South lies, the Atlantic Ocean. The first written … Ivory Coast. It was from these empires that…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… Carter won the Pulitzer, the Bang-Bang Club made their way to Tokowa to photograph an outbreak of violence in the area. Later in … was seriously injured…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… an area of 47 square km. After World War II, Britain moved to incorporate both Prince Edward and Marion Island under a … under Jan Smuts who was the Prime…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… opposed the apartheid government's planned legislation to establish a statutory media council. The proposed … Bill, introduced under Prime Minister BJ…
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… Captain, Barend Lameren, ordered the ship's cannon fired to warn the people on shore that they may need help. Shortly … falling into the raging sea, and many…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… regime, who despite mediation by South Africa, has failed to come to a politically equitable solution. Added to the woes of the Zimbabwean people, was the…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… he completed his Standard Six (Grade Eight), and went on to study to become a teacher at the Diocesan Training College near … attended the same school and,…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… in one of the government’s Bantu Homelands. In addition to the circumstances in the homelands, the article reflected … the time. “As the Black spot removals…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… Many South Africans are struggling to come to terms with the new conditions in their country, in a world … of South Africans are contributing more than ever…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all referred to him affectionately, was a generous, jovial man with sufficient political foresight to realise…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the African National…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in Alexander, becoming exiled in ……
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… by which Pageview and Vrededorp was known).They objected to a Johannesburg City Council meeting statement made on 17 … Western Native Township and the…
EventLesotho addresses political exiles in the country
… government invited all South African political refugees to make formal application to leave the country, to indicate proposed dates of departure and…