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PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… Build a Monument in Honour of God, was first discussed on 16 December 1888, when President Paul Kruger of the South … Jansen, on what later became known as…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… first president. He was re-elected for another term in 1969 after his party won the elections that year. Surrounded … the guerrillas were released and…
EventSipho Ngomane of South Africa wins the 80th Comrades Marathon in Durban.
… Sipho Ngomane of Nelspruit started running at the age of 16 after playing soccer initially. On 16 June 2005, Ngomane won the 80th Comrades Marathon race, … …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… a decision was made to break away from NUSAS and in 1969, the South African Students Organisation (SASO) was …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969, South Africa was one of the few countries unable to …
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… Jim Fouche, officially opened the Garden on 22 February 1969. He marked the occasion by planting an 'Olea Europaea …
PlaceSahlumbe
… Workers began in earnest. Sahlumbe was formally created in 1969 by the State, in response to a crisis sparked by the …
PlaceOld Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston
… and make their own furniture and household necessities. In 1969 a decision was taken to expand the Drostdy Museum …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… 50- 0-0 From Lourenco Marques 11- 12-0 From Natal 8-16-0 Local 1- 7-7 Total 5,269-10-7 Gandhi also informed … Interior in connection with landing of…
ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… Ministers, creating two new ministries, and appointed 16 new cabinet ministers, 10 of which are from outside his …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… ↵ [iv] 1983: Car bomb in South Africa kills 16. 2016. [Online]. Available: … ↵ [vi] 1983: Car bomb in South Africa kills 16. 2016. [Online]. Available: … …
EventAhmed Timol born on the 3rd Nov 1941
… movement. He went for political training abroad in 1969. He was trained with Thabo Mbeki and Anne Nicholson. In …
EventThe Association of Chambers of Commerce issued a “no work, no pay, no penalty” statement
… work, no pay’ to workers who stayed away from work on June 16. The statement was released after the United Democratic … to issue a call for a one day work…
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… the march. The students at the Cape were influenced by the 16 June 1976 uprising of Soweto school children to take … better education. Click here for a…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… George Rebone Moffat joins the PAC in Atterdgeville aged 16 just after the Sharpeville Massacre. March, Nana Mohomo … Molotski are appointed as external PAC…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) …
ArticleWages Commission
Soon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David Hemson, Halton…
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) …
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… of the Rights of Man, which became part of French law on 16 August 1789. This document was based on the ideas of …
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… of the South African Council of Churches. On 16 April 1981, Tutu was arrested by the South African … was confiscated, barring him from travelling overseas…
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… historic inauguration as President of Liberia was on 16 January, 2006. She became the 24th President of Liberia. … she was re-elected in November 2011, and…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… any political meetings in commemoration of the June 16 Soweto uprising.The UDF were informed that the police … only interfere with the meeting if they…
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South … at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… Eight days after unrest broke out at Naledi High School (16 June), Tsietsi Mashinini led the peaceful protest of learners in Soweto, in what became known as…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, Wolseley and Ceres …
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 31 October 1969. …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… and medicinal properties. The Garden was established in 1969, after the Nelspruit Municipality noted that it would be …
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… and founded the Black Consciousness Movement in 1969. Steve Biko was viewed with alarm by the South African …
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
… Moon since Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 in July 1969. While astronaut's Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt …