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EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… the first surfer from outside Santa Cruz, California to win the Mavericks Surf Contest Presented by Verizon … had beaten a world-class 24-man field in epic…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… the Dutch and the British. The mineral revolution led to the quick spread of European colonization into the … Racist laws enabled the white-owned mining…
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 round. However, the first round was fired ……
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… stamps depicted the reclining figure of Hope, in homage to the Cape of Good Hope. The triangular shape of the stamp … commented on how the stamps looked…
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…
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. … in-depth perspective of Durban’s history you…
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 all South Africans,…
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… economic aid this changed in 1996. South Africa decided to move closer China as a partner in politics and economics. While Mandela tried to placate Hsia Yen…
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 … so-called "free press" of South Africa; 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
… was born in 1862, at the age of 14. He undertook a voyage to South Africa in 1876 and opened a general dealer’s in … while the latter was still in India and…
EventIdi Amin is deposed as the President of Uganda
… in a counter-attack by the Tanzanian army, which managed to work its way to the Ugandan capital of Kampala in early 1979. In April 1979 Amin flees to Libya…
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 given prison…
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
… (TIC) on 15 October 1989, a rally was organised by the ANC to commemorate their release from prison. The rally, which … It was the first time that these…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… rest of the twenty-five accused, the largest group ever to be convicted of murder in a single SA trial, received sentences ranging from six to eight years…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could not attend the meeting due to…
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… under the presidency of Chief Lucas Mangope decides to withdraw its squatting charges against the Bosplaas … was a strategy applied by the Bophuthatswana…
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 turned out on the…
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…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… mother was published. Mgqwetho was the first woman poet to publish in Xhosa. From 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than ninety poems, most of them to the…