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Rev. Allan Hendrickse is elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party of South Africa at its thirteenth Congress in Bloemfontein
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Nic Swanepoel (58), SA radio broadcaster and TV newsreader, dies in Johannesburg.
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The SABC starts regular daily TV transmissions after trial transmissions during 1975.
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…
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The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh is found guilty on ten points of subversive act
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The Rev. Francis Owen (52), founder of a mission station in Zululand, secretary of Dingane and eyewitness to the killing of Pie
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The Rev. David Petrus Matthys Beukes, moderator of the Dutch Reformed church, is elected as 4th chairman of the FAK.
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The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o
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The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube, Zulu journalist and politician, is born in Inanda, Natal. Date is given as 12 February 187
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The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for Wolmaransstad, is
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Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
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The Rev. Dr. Arthur William Blaxall, an Anglican clergyman, is convicted on charges of aiding the activities of the Pan-African
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The Rev. Meent Borcherds, moderator of the synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1826, is born in Jengum, Lower Saxony.
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The authorities release the leader of the Coloured Labour Party, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, after holding him in prison for two
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The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te
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In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B
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The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it
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The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. Willia
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Paul Roux, preacher and teacher of the French Huguenot community at Drakenstein after the Rev. Pierre Simond had left in 1702,
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Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi
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Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.
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Frederick and Clifford Nissen, brothers of the ANC assistant secretary of the Western Cape, the Rev. Chris Nissen, is shot dead
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Rev Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa since 1975 and SA minister of sport and recrea
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
Humphrey Phakade ‘Pax’ Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). He was one of…
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo…
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Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…
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The Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, the Rev. Desmond Tutu, announces that he is giving up his current post to become Secretary-Gene
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The Rev Beyers Naude, who was previously banned by the government, speaks publicly for the first time in twenty-seven years at
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A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an
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