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EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… 24 August 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a teacher and factory worker. She became politically active at Livingstone High School where she was…
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… 1960, South African Police (SAP) detectives continue to give evidence at the Treason trial against the accused. … Congress of the People in 1955, considered…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… in the game of table tennis, it was not an easy for them to participate in an international competition. According to … the South African government and it…
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… government buildings. These attacks were fuelled by a broadcast made by FLN in Nasser’s Egypt, which called for Muslims in Algeria to join a national…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to various…
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
… South Africa, he was arrested and charged with conspiring to overthrow the government. After being convicted of this charge, he was sentenced to ten years…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… of Military Police (established on 1 November 1938 as a unit of the Permanent Force) to that of Military Police Corps (MPC). It brought all … assured…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… In what was widely regarded as move to prepare the ground for the country's first multiracial elections, President F.W. de Klerk reshuffled the cabinet. This…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… president Abd-i-rashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated in a military Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took … when it launched an attack on Ethiopia in…
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter establishes the town of Potchefstroom
… He fought in the Fourth and Fifth Frontier Wars and was a wealthy sheep farmer when, like many other Dutch farmers at the Cape, he decided to leave the…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… England and joined the British Army in 1793. He soon rose to prominence, serving in most major battles, including … of Good Hope, at which time his…
EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… An accomplished short board surfer with a fondness for tube-riding, Grant Baker from Durban, … the first surfer from outside Santa Cruz, California to win…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… from an agrarian society at the edge of world trade into a globally integrated industrial economy, which spurred … the Dutch and the British. The mineral…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… of the British garrison. He extended an invitation to Lt-Col Chamier, as the senior gunner, to fire the first … had turned down Rhodes' invitation on the…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… stamp in Africa was issued in the Cape of Good Hope, a British colony at the time. The triangular shaped stamp … stamps depicted the reclining figure of Hope…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… of congenital defects that could possibly have led to his early death. Tutankhamen himself also went on to marry his half-sister Ankhesenamun and had two…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… The decision to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s Day was in celebration for what Voortrekkers viewed as a 'victory' over Zulu warriors near the…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars and the Bhambatha Uprising. More recently, it also served as a canteen and…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… This was the first such declaration of a State of Emergency by the Apartheid state. During these periods, the government had free reign to suspend civil…
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…
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time – Group Show (until 28 April 2017)
… the exhibition “FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time” to Nairobi. The exhibition will be open to the public from April 7th to 28th at the Nairobi National ……
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… and National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) gathered to issue a call for a one day work stay-away on June 16. The call was issued to …
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… Nelson Mandela. While South Africa had maintained a friendly official relationship with Taiwan post-1994 and … economic aid this changed in 1996. South…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… the border war raged along the 300 km frontier . According to official figures, 279 Swapo combatants and 23 security … Africa, Angola and Cuba signed the…
ArchiveIn Verwoerd's South Africa: a tale of per
… are further claims that there been sufficient material to place in the daily newspapers, but that the world will never learn of these as long as there is a…
EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… It is Africa’s busiest Airport with the capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers annually. It is named after … controversy since the government had…
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… from its Annual General Conferences. The ILO objected to South Africa's system of racial discrimination and labour … peace and security". Initially, South…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… Dennis Brutus. The committee was specifically established to mobilise the international community more effectively and to establish itself as South Africa's…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… activist Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs left South Africa to settle in England on this date. He stated that his … on two occasions during the same month. He was…
EventTrader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies
… On 27 August 1944, a pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout … where he was born in 1862, at the age of 14. He undertook a voyage to South…