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EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
Mbabane based newspaper, Times, reported that King Mswati III of Swaziland bought himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth $500,000 despite his country's…
EventMandela asks for commitment to fight AIDS
… SA government and AIDS. Source: The Citizen, Saturday 17 July, 2004, p. 4. …
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… charged with high treason and the possession of loot. On 17 November 1922, he was hanged at the Central Prison in … [online], Available at www.sahistory.org…
EventMarks Maponyane, former Bafana Bafana striker, is born in Meadowlands, Soweto
… February 1962. Maponyane played professional football for 17 years and was awarded footballer of the year three times. …
EventStart of the Muslim community's Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… the Muslim community with no alternate burial ground. On 17 January 1886, in defiance of the closure, 3000 Muslims …
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… for international support”, World Socialist Website, (17 February 2000). Accessed on 20 September 2016 … for international support”, World Socialist Website,…
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
Clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, who combined politics and Christian ethics to…
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 January 1941. …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 of 1956, prohibiting any outside gathering that the …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… President F.W. de Klerk announced a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his …
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… Okaharui ambushed German forces killing 32 and wounding 17 German troops. Von Glasenapp's forces were also suffering …
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guehenno, who represented 17,600 peacekeepers overseeing the elections, the largest UN … | https://english.peopledaily.com.cn…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… exclusive casino rights in the Transkei Province. On 17 January 1989, after two years of investigations, Kerzner … (1995) Police move closer to Sol from Mail…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he published his first article. At 21 he published his …
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… 1970-1979 1970 HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern … to move much beyond universities and…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Periyasamy Govender, another volunteer, was born on 17 September 1890 in Madras (now Chennai), India. He arrived … belonged to T. Veloo. They had carried…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… board the H.M.T. Armadale Castle , arriving in Mombasa on 17 February 1916. For the first nine months, the battalion …
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. …
Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew National Liberation League of S.A. The …
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… minister for community safety, Firoz Cachali. On Tuesday 17 February, Education Minister Naledi Pandor and African … excluded back, whether academically or…
History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Africa: 1932 - 1949 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 June 1977. …
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… On 17 August 1970, two top South African scientists were refused …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… to Lumumba’s arrest. He was executed by a firing squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… captured. On 1 December he was imprisoned at Thysville. On 17 January 1961 he was flown to Elisabethville in Katanga …
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… by the bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, on 17 June. Tributes were made by, among others, Chief Albert …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, Dr Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya, was born in …