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EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on smoking in public in the 1970s, but legislation was only…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… a decision by the finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson Mandela announced changes to the…
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… in the vicinity of the present-day Kimberley, leading to the establishment of De Beers Consolidated Mines under the … of gold, which changed South Africa's…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… called on South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to follow the example of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and to release all political prisoners. The…
EventKenyan politician, businessman and mathematician, George Saitoti dies
… He is of Masai and Kikuyu descent which would prove to be a disadvantage in his future political career. He … he specialized in mathematics and economics. On…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… was Walter Sisulu. At the conference the ANC resolved to begin with the boycott campaign. A series of boycott … (SAIC). The period 1950 -1952 began with a…
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
… out from prison, Nelson Mandela announced his intention to separate from his wife of 34 years, Winnie … born in 1960. In 1962, Mandela was arrested and…
EventGovernment declares that five ‘non-White’ South African University Colleges will be entities separate from the University of South Africa
… entities. Among other things, the institutions were to be called universities and would be subject to certain conditions, be free to provide their own…
East Cape Update
… published by East Cape News Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a reliable index of in-depth information and … This region had a rich history of…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 1 and 2 Article: Editorial comment - Victory is Calling
… victorious. It has convincingly displayed its capability to engage and deliver devastating blows at the hated enemy. … set by our gallant army, from…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W … came about. Hannie Preller convinced her husband,…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… made specific mention of his part in the transition to democracy in South Africa. Despite sustained government … National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… having matriculated at the age of thirteen, Swart went on to complete a B.A. degree in two years at Grey University … and the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), both of…
PlaceFrankfort
… status in 1896. Frankfort is now the capital town to Villiers, Cornelia and Tweeling, called the Mafube … and Durban - for those who prefer 'off the beaten…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… mother church decided Uitenhage North, EAST and -The Mist to secede. Early in 1804, Graaff-Reinet was proclaimed a … Already in 1809 there were among the…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… attitudes embedded in his missionary education. Intending to gain skills needed to become a privy councillor for the Thembu royal house, … the largest school…
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… In the prologue to The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley claimed that the “past is a … hundred years on, it is an opportune moment for historians to reflect upon and…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group and Seminar on the work of, and with, … Research. He has three sets of research…
Joint statement by ANC Commission on Religious Affairs and SACC, 18 September 2009
… CRA and other faith-based organisations with an objective to hammer out a formula for cooperation amongst all religious … the SACC and other faith…
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… the Athenaeum. The Athenaeum was founded in the 1850s to promote cultural activities. It died out in the 1880s. In … Art, the Naturalist Society and the…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… quite appropriate as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few individuals have been recorded … down while the rest of the ventral…
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… by terrorists. Mandela proposed different approaches to dealing with the issue: "If no extradition treaty exists … as sanctions were imposed on the country…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… a variant of African socialism. Nyerere called for an end to National Party (NP) rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to…
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… held memorial services throughout the mining industry to mourn these deaths, under the supervision of NUM (National … own, scheduled for 1st October. …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… the Botanical Gardens in Pretoria, with a bullet wound to the head. Mdluli is rumoured to have told his lover, Zintle Galada, that he was going to have a…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… in the 1830's, various dialects of Afrikaans were believed to have existed, however all written material was in standard … as well as the first Afrikaans…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… Corps was established with the view of being dispatched to East Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One. The … on the hill, making…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC aspired to unite Africans in the advancement of their political and socio-economic status Contrary to its aim of…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… South Africa Act was passed in Britain granting dominion to the White minority over Native (African), Asiatic (mostly … party supporters gathered at Market…
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… and children, as well as their black servants, were taken to concentration camps, where they were met with appalling … general, had protested against the…