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EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946 … Studies at the University of Cape…
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
… 3,000 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF) to enforce the state of emergency in the province. The willingness and ability of the SADF members 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
… and photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to catalogue the stars, nebulae, and other objects of the … he stayed on Table Mountain…
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.
… that he discovered over 300 prehistoric sites. This led to a change of career from civil engineering to archeology for Lowe. By 1935, Lowe was well known…
Isisebenzi
… about once a month and dealt with all matters of interest to workers, especially with their struggle for just wages and the right to organise. Isisebenzi No…
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the ……
The Neglected Tradition
… by Christopher Till of the Johannesburg Art Gallery to curate an exhibition of art by 'black South Africans, I … educators and members of community-based…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… Go Visiting) and portraiture (An Old Lady Who Is Waiting To Die). The series is imbued with a sparseness typical of … a Goldblatt image, the outside world is…
PlaceNelspruit
… valley of the Crocodile River and acts as the gateway to Mpumalanga and the Kruger National Park. With abundant … a host of nearby attractions, Nelspruit is…
PlaceMarconi Beam, Montague Gardens
… Marconi Beam is next to Montague Gardens and is located in City of Cape Town. … Gardens and Marconi Beam are of strategic importance to the entire Cape…
ArchivePromise of hope
… future. Not first aid but fundamental rights -- the right to sell their labour in the best market and to live with their families at their places of work, a…
PlaceGoede Hoop Wine Estate
… at the helm. These vineyards require no irrigation due to sufficient annual rainfall and the soils are best suited to red wine cultivation. Goede Hoop has…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes. The … meaning ‘whiter than white’ which was…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… did not have citizenship. This 'Bantustan' policy sought to assign every Black African to a 'homeland' according to their ethnic identity. The ten homelands…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… AT THE ABOVE HALL THIS Sunday, August 25th, 1929 At 3 p.m. TO CONSIDER THE FORMATION OF A " LEAGUE OF NATIVE RIGHTS." TO DEMAND (BY NATION WIDE…
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… birthday, the first of its kind that he was going to celebrate behind closed doors. Mandela had recently been sentenced to life imprisonment after the…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… of the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight … and Raymond Mhlaba . Mandela argued…
EventMovie director Henry Cornelius dies
… "Law and Disorder" in 1958. Charles Crichton saw the film to its completion. Cornelius studied under Max Reinhardt and … with Rene Clair and Alexander Korda…
EventFormer National Public Prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka is born
… After his appointment he resigned from all political posts to avoid accusation of political bias and to distance the office from his political involvement…
EventThe South African cricket team beats England for the first time on English soil
… the 5 test series 1 - 0 with a victory by 157 runs thanks to Bruce Mitchell's 164 and Jock Cameron's quickfire 90. The match was one of the first to include…
EventSA War Memorial is opened at Delville Wood
… was opened outside the village of Longueval, France, next to the historic Delville Wood. The Memorial was unveiled by … the First World War. The inscription…
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… Thozamile Botha broke his banning order and escaped to Lesotho. PEBCO was an affiliate of the banned United … raid in the capital of Lesotho, Maseru, he was…
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… scandal' about attempts of the Department of Information to influence international and local public opinion by shifting R64m belonging to the Defence budget…
EventTranskei breaks all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa
… Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces his government's decision to break all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South … all South African Defence Force (SADF)…
EventUniversity of Stellenbosch in a historic move
… The University of Stellenbosch announced that it was to open its doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students for all post-graduate … a chronology of key…
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South … refused passports, and thus…