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EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… Africans may die from Aids by 2025. The numbers could soar to ninety million, or more than 10% of the continent's … population, if more immediate action wasn…
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… fired randomly at everyone he came across before returning to the scene of the original murder to shoot dead his girlfriend's father, Maxanjana Mbenya. … the…
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… The first American president to visit SA with his wife, President Bill Clinton, arrived … at the Cape Town International Airport. Clinton was on a tour of…
EventArchbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in SA
… A service in Cape Town's St George's Cathedral marked the … the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). According to him, his retirement was a way of off…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. He was arrested and served life … on Robben Island for his involvement in MK…
EventKing Dinuzulu dies
… prison by Prime Minister Gen. Louis Botha, who also saw to it that he received a farm to live on, died on his farm Uitkyk in Middelburg district, … (ed.) …
EventGhana is declared a republic
… became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On 1 July 1960, Ghana was declared a republic with Kwame…
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… The financial Rand, used as a parallel currency to the commercial Rand, was abolished on 10 March 1995. The … in South Africa. The financial Rand usually…
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
… ANC will be unveiling 5000 volunteers who will be working to secure victory for the elections campaign in the Siyanda … the province. The President Jacob…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… Aalwynkop is a Hill 5 km West of Balfour and 20 km South-East of … . "Aalwyn" is the Afrikaans word for: ' Aloe Vera '; a plant that has numerous cosmetic…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1940 and became a teacher at the Karoo Secondary School in Beaufort West … School, and that same year became the…
PlaceKenilworth
… Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and homes here are large ……
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in … The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed by … the African National Congress(ANC)…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… on December 12, 1942 in Flagstaff, Transkei. His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life … Qabula’s mother wilted away early in his…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… cadet in 1910, and two years later was commissioned a 2d lieutenant. During World War I he served in France and … fronts. After the war he held regimental…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… on 17 December 1929 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) into a musical family. Thus, Nellie du Toit began her singing … at tender age of nine, and by the age of…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… time when the PAC was in need of stable leadership during a period of transition in the country. Zephania Mothopeng was … of the group of Africanists that…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated … responsible for the abduction and killing. On 27 August, a petrol bomb was thrown at…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… came after negotiations with the WARC persuaded the church to renounce apartheid in its theological teachings. The DRC … of Churches when Beyers Naude…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon … mines, went on strike. The reasons for the strike were…
EventWorld War I begins
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in … The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, opened a community library at Mbuzini in the Mpumalanga Province, … Samora Machel Public Library. This…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… newspapers at Ludgate Circus. In 1894 he enrolled as a Private in the Royal West regiment and served in the … staff corps. While he was doing his service,…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… assisted by sculptor Emanuel Hahn . The monument featured a granite base with three sculptures in bronze. This memorial is dedicated to British soldiers who…
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… side by side with the home of the Constitutional Court, a symbol of South Africa’s triumphant democracy. The site is … for advancement. Democratic Elections…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers of the Anglican … is the Mother Church of the…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… includes all books, articles and primary material referred to in the text and footnotes, as well as a few additional works which were significant in…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… Rationed away to French colonialists at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the … the Tuareg-controlled desert areas.Following civil action, a decision was taken by…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… National Congress headquarters – into darkness, and a threat of Johannesburg being brought to a standstill by striking municipal workers, the work of the …