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EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo's Bar on the Durban beach. An ANC's arm wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe …
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… prison. About 100 prisoners started their fast earlier on Wednesday demanding that the State of Emergency be lifted …
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… stunned the sporting fraternity by running bare-footed on her way to claim this magnificent achievement. …
EventThe first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State is founded
… On 31 March 1842, Reverend Daniel Lindley instituted the …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… he and his wife Mary, an indispensible helpmate, carried on their mission work in the neighbourhood of Kuruman. The …
EventNational Housing Department introduces new plan
… in informal structures around the country and with 800 000 on housing-subsidy waiting lists. References: Pressly ,D. …
EventPharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit
… highest rates of HIV and AIDS among its population. On 19 April 2001, these companies dropped their legal …
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… politics and openly opposed apartheid. In 1998, commenting on apartheid he said: "Disagreeable though it may be, we must …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… exile Usama bin Laden, for allegedly planning attacks on Americans overseas and embassy bombings. If convicted …
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… Lawyers representing the government announced on 14 August 1998 that they were suing Winnie …
EventTony Johnstone wins Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament.
… Zimbabwean golfer Tony Johnstone ended a six-year drought on the European Tour when he won the £400,000 Alfred Dunhill …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… Committee ousted Holomisa from his seat in Parliament on 1 October 1996 after finding him guilty of misconduct and …
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… the passing of the Indian Relief Act, by which the £3 tax on ex-indentured Indians was abolished, validity of Hindu and …
EventCullinan diamond is cut into two
… major event. It took experts about three months to decide on how to cut it and what shape to give the finished gems. … Available at: www.cullinandiamonds.co…
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… and twenty-six wounded. Eleven armed Blacks, fighting on the side of the British and responsible for misconduct at …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… African War), summarised the pssure his government has put on the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or South African …
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… owls, camels, wise men, women, and children walking on the road to Mecca. Her artwork, once an object of derision …
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… first Gold Medal of the South African Nursing Association on 12 May 1961 in recognition of distinguished and …
EventBram Fischer born today
… apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 April 1908. This man, from staunch Afrikaans descent …
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… followed the discovery of gold in the then Transvaal area. On 2 June 1887, President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger …
EventThe Republic of Goshen is founded
… in Lichtenburg is founded by a group of Afrikaner farmers on land allocated to them by Chief Matlaba, of the Barolong …
EventThe Stellenbosch Gymnasium is founded
… in a large house in Dorp Street. This was achieved on initiative of Proff. John Murray and N.J. Hofmeyr, and the …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… Alexander la Guma was born in District Six, Cape Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban …
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… Front, who died in London of an undisclosed illness on 28 October 2014. …
EventStephen Appiah, retired Ghanaian footballer is born
… Ghanaian national team. Appiah was born in Achimota, Accra on 24 December 1980. He began his soccer career with the … Appiah [online] Available at: www…
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… Christopher Katongo was born on 31 August 1982 in Mufulira, Zambia. After playing for a … 2012) [online]. Available at: www.goal.com [Accessed on 25 August…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid government embarked on a concerted effort of destroying informal settlements …
EventThe inquest into the death in detention of Dr. Neil Aggett is adjourned
… Dr. Aggett to be interrogated for a sixty-two hour period. On 21 December, 1982 the inquest, headed by Johannesburg …
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… African-born Chief Subeditor. He died in Johannesburg on 4 May 1983. … ,[online] Available at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 2 May 2013] …
EventZambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon killing 18 national soccer team players
… play against Senegal in a world cup qualifier. All thirty on board the plane perished. The Gabonese government … [online] Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk…