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EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… governor of Natal, turned the first sod of the line on 1 January 1876. Owing to the mountainous terrain between …
EventEdenburg is founded
… by the Volksraad, but permission was finally granted on 4 March 1863. Municipal status was only attained in 1891. …
EventBattle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war)
… and the Orange River through Vechtkop to Jammerbergdrift on the Caledon. The Warden line caused much resentment, as …
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… for fear of a military coup or the imposition of sanctions on the tiny kingdom by the international community. …
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… besieged for equally long periods. At the end of the war on 31 May 1902, shortly before midnight, the two parties …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January 1981, where more than 14 uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) …
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… In a massacre on 4 February 1994 Abbas al-Bager Abbas opened fire killing …
EventFNB cancels its R20 million anti-crime initiative designed to encourage President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority
… On 2 February 2007, First National bank cancelled its R 20 … Guardian [online] Available at: https://mg.co.za [Accessed on 18 January 2013]|The City Press…
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… through an amendment to the constitution. He passed away on 14 February 2018 due to colon cancer. …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… (now Gauteng) where she obtained a BA Degree. She went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. …
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… courtroom. Danie Theron was born in Tulbagh in the Cape on 9 May 1872 and was only 28 years old when he died. …
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… On 30 May 1963 the Transkei Constitution Act No 48 …
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… at the Shaba game reserve in Kenya, where she was working on a project to return captive leopards to the wild. …
Democracy in Action
… documents the Institute's efforts to further their aims on the international front by sending delegations abroad, …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… of the Western Cape and has puplished a variety of papers on literary …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Cape Malay, Portuguese, English and indigenous languages. On 11 September 1928, it was used for the first time in an …
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… literature. He was killed in a car accident in 1957 while on holiday in Portugal. … Available at: www.catholicauthors.com [Accessed on 13 October 2013]|…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… South African novelist, Andre Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May 1935. Brink obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in … at: https://literature.britishcouncil…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… presenter. She has since presented several shows on Dstv and was Master of Ceremonies in several events, …
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… he laboured among the Xhosa and the Khoi Khoi and went on to marry a non-White woman; a decision that was viewed as …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… On 30 December 1987, Major General Bantu Holomisa, commander …
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… but later returned to South Africa in 1936. Amshewitz died on 6 December 1942 in Muzienburg, Cape Town. In 1943 a …
Fighting Talk
… by Ruth First. The focus of the content was largely on resistance by South Africans to the suppressive actions …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… contain theoretical and sometimes historical discourses on socialism, revolution, Marxism and Stalinism. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… this turning point the political climate was balanced on a knife’s edge..." Contents Introduction Chapter 1 - The …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the …
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… and Darrenwood. The leafy suburb lies predominantly on a slope, its pretty houses, many of which have been recently restored, positioned on a grid of…
PlaceSophiatown
… the Act was passed to remove Blacks from Sophiatown. On 9 February 1955, the head of the South African state, D F … of Soweto, where the NP established a…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… enslavement. YOU SHOULD BOYCOTT: - I.BECAUSE to vote on an aparte voters' roll for White "Coloured … political apartheid and therefore every form of…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… forcibly removed from Brown’s Farm and sent to Crossroads. On their arrival they found only a bush and had to erect … 'witdoeke' were armed with weapons, and…