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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…
EventIdi Amin is deposed as the President of Uganda
… in 1979 he suffers the same fate when he is overthrown by a military coup launched by rebels and exiles backed by … launched an attack on western Tanzania…
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
… Post Transvaal and Sunday Post, two newspapers established to replace the banned World. Qoboza finally succumbed to the government pressure and left the…
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites, were acquitted on the charge, but … were acquitted on all…
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Transitional Executive Council and Nelson Mandela's call to the UN General Assembly to lift all sanctions with the exception of oil and arms … the…
EventUNHRC service is enlisted in repatriation process
… High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) would be requested to help in repatriating about 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries with which…
EventMthunzi Njakazi, ANC member, is killed in shooting after returning from exile
… allegedly done by askari (former ANC member who defected to the Bureau of State Security ) members after his return … the Security police allegedly delayed…
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… government. Homelands like Bophutatswana were not willing to accept the Pretoria Minute and the South African government was unwilling to put pressure on…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) on 15 October 1989, a rally was organised by the ANC to commemorate their release from prison. The rally, which … It…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who fired at demonstrators attacking … rest of the twenty-five accused, the…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could…
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… under the presidency of Chief Lucas Mangope decides to withdraw its squatting charges against the Bosplaas … residence permits or identity books. This law…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart attack in Kampala. He was on his way back from the…
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… Minister Aziz Pahad, arrived in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to help find a solution to the political unrest in the country. Thousands of people …
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
… year old Egyptian women, Waffa Mossaad Gabr, was the first to file for divorce under a new and highly opposed law that doesn't require women to prove…
EventPres Mandela’s testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South … Nelson Mandela was unsatisfactory because…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… On this date a poem by Nontsizi Mgqwetho lamenting the death of her mother was published. Mgqwetho was the first woman poet to publish in Xhosa. From 1920 to…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… After several years as teacher and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… served as president of the Orange Free State from 1859 to 1863, the only man to have held both offices. Despite that success, however, his plans to merge the…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in … 3,000 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF) to…
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Fanie Botha warned that the government was planning to take tougher l measures to curb the rapidly expanding and increasingly militant black … that the…
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
… Sir John Frederick William Herschel was a British astronomer, mathematician, chemist and photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to…
EventPope John Paul II begins his tour of Africa.
… and Ivory Coast John Paul was the first non-Italian ever to become pope. He is also known as the pope who was most vocal about human rights and used his…
EventJustice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban
… the 80’s and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his ‘Letters to God’ series of drawings to the South African National Gallery in cape Town. In 1996 … reflects…
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
… was born on 4 November 1894 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape. A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of over a hundred bridges…