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EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… President P.W. Botha rules out any possibility of a Black majority government in South Africa at the National … The principle was rejected despite the fact…
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… settlers in the Eastern Cape. The paper was also obliged to print government announcements and proclamations to its readership. As a result the paper was …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… of Windhoek, capital of Namibia. The bodies were believed to be that of members of the People's Liberation Army of … Malan advised the Namibian and South…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… John Maxwell Coetzee is a well-known South African author. After completing a degree in English and Mathematics, he went on to complete a PhD in English,…
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… Assembly, citing disillusionment with the UDM's inability to unite all South Africans in a single party. De Beer said he was looking for a new political home…
EventWits attains full university status
… which was established in Kimberley in 1896 and transferred to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904. … four years later. Full university…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… Hobhouse was born in Liskeard, Cornwall. Hobhouse was a humanitarian and pacifist who vehemently opposed British … the South African Women and Children…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe who would become a leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe at Graaff-Reinet, Cape … age by…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… 15 were left wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a rioting crowd on the outskirts of Salisbury, Southern … by Ian Smith, defied the British…
EventThe second Ashanti War breaks out in Africa
… the reign of King Kofi Karikari in 1867, they attempted to re-establish Ashanti rule over the Elima and Fanti tribes. The Ashanti also became involved in a…
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… Beautiful School Buildings and well-kept School Grounds on a School’s learners? The Methodology and Theoretical foundation of Appreciative Inquiry were used…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… eLundi and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be Swazi for "the large one' or 'eternal one'. Also recorded as 'Lugogodo'. The Mountain was…
PlaceFunda Community College
… was one of the very few places for Black students who had a desire to study and engage with artistic resources. Funda was built to provide a source of arts…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… Partners as well as Daneel and Smit architects were hired to design and construct the theatre. [ii] The concept of the … and support for professional theatre…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… Struben brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted in the … extracted by the…
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… On 22 February 1707 a young man on horseback raced through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting "Victorie! Victorie!" - a sign that the Burghers were…
EventInfant hominid discovered at Cradle of Humankind
… and his son Matthew Berger (9 years) stumbled across a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, estimated to be 2 million years while looking for…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa - farming and … These were not sudden turning points; they…
PlaceElukhanyweni
… Elukhanyweni is a small settler village in the foothills of the Amatola … of the Gxulu and Keiskamma Rivers. It has long been known to local inhabitants as a…
Call for Papers: Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
… together South African and international participants to contextualise the praxis of Palestine as a justice issue in its multiple manifestations and nuanced …
PlacePella
… In the mid-1880s a huge Cathedral was built in the Bushmanland desert oasis of … no idea what they were doing! They did, however, have a copy of an…
PlaceAasvoelkop a Hill on which Northcliff Water Tower Stands, Johannesburg
… A hill on which Northcliff water tower is situated, some 10 … arouse from before the railway reached Johannesburg, up to a thousand wagons at a time were on…
Umsebenzi
… South African Communist Party, deals with issues relating to the national liberation struggle, from a Communist ideological point of view. Other ideologies…
ArchiveThe Ethics of apartheid
… of the term apartheid in South Africa, which stands for a government policy that seeks by legislation, to politically, economically and socially to segregate…
Phambili
… published by the Phambili Collective in Johannesburg, was a short lived publication comprising 3 issues published … during 1988 and 1989. The aim of the…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… The committee was entrusted with the responsibilities to monitor and promote a comprehensive programme of action against apartheid in … against South Africa,…
EventDr Chris Barnard divorces his second wife
… whom he had been married for twelve years. He got married to Barbara in 1970, a year after divorcing his first wife. In spite of Barnard … publicly declaring…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… in South Africa, the ruling National Party (NP) adopted a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa…
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
… A member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) from … won the 90km Comrades Marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Kelehe dedicated…