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Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… that the economic upliftment of the country depends on the peaceful resolution of the country's problems, …
EventInaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue
… The Inaugural Women’s Legacy Dialogue took place on 13 August 2010 in the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg. The …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… Geraldine Fraser was born on 24 August 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… On 6 March 1957, the first South African Non-White sporting …
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… near Cradock, Eastern Cape which proved successful. On 20 March 1953 the first foal was born. This success has …
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… the Automobile Club of SA, based in Cape Town, was founded on 23 October 1901. After that several other bodies began to …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… voyage from Southampton took a mere 10 days, and continued on to Port Elizabeth East London, and Durban. Launched in …
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… Klerk reshuffled the cabinet. This was to come into effect on 1 April 1993. He reduced it in size and for the first time …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… to the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 July to examine concerns about violence in South …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… On 25 July 1990 government security forces detained …
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the … [online] Available at: africanhistory.about.com [Accessed on 3 December 2013]| Fact Index…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… of Antigua in 1819, as well as British Guiana in 1831. On 16 January 1834, D'Urban assumed office as Governor of the …
EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… the Mavericks Surf Contest Presented by Verizon Wireless on 8 February 2006. Baker had beaten a world-class 24-man … February [online], Available at www.bbc…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of …
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… 20minutes in 1921. In recent years the race had been held on June 16, but after complaints had been received that the …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… in South Africa, outstripping the growth of Cape Town. On 28 September 1902 it was announced that 15 000 …
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… Company, after Chamier had turned down Rhodes' invitation on the ground that, as a member of the Royal Regiment, he was …
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
… On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South …
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… Free State. He appealed to the British for protection, and on 12 March 1868 his country became a British protectorate, … ,[Online],Available at: www…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… Force, took a twist when an estimated 7 500 soldiers went on strike. The former guerrillas refused to return to work …
Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… Nelson Mandela with Fidel Castro of cuba.Based on the unique acces Estela gained to both men, she explores …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
… later, South Africa signed mutual articles of agreement on the Southern African Regional Tourism Council. South …
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on the 22 August 1980! …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Glossary
… to happen encroachment - gradual and steady intrusion on a person’s property or rights Eurocentric - regarding …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… tensions as the leaders of the respective regions were set on completely separating their regions from the influence of … rags [online] Available at: www…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… intimately and had the advantage of interacting with him on a daily basis. These were less than ideal conditions, … its conferences in Tanzania and that our…
Speech at the Final Conference of International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa by O . R. Tambo, London, 24 May 1991
… work going. When we took the difficult decision to embark on the armed struggle, IDAF was prepared to provide defence … prisoners remain incarcerated and…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… soccer spectators from all over the World, was focused on Soweto. What's in a name? William Carr, chair of … June 1976? A Soweto Street, Late Afternoon, 16…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… "And yet, as an old Scotsman had put it," went on the president, "these mistakes give to youth the wit of … could do either they must organise. Government…