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EventProposal for a new constitution
… National Congress suggested that equal status be given to all participants in the process of drawing up the new … Freedom Party favoured the Nationalist…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… conference organised by COSATU in Cape Town, which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid … homes or magisterial districts from…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… restrictions on political organisations. The bill sought to curb the growing union movement and undermine gains made by workers since the 1970s. Cosatu's…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Boesak maintained he had stopped calling or referring to himself as Coloured in 1970, but the African National … festival, where a large part of the debate…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… The South African parliament approved legislation to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. … A reparation and rehabilitation committee was…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… book Blame Me on History, which was in many ways similar to Can Themba's short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed … Me on History was an examination of…
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… 1893. Cato was born in London, England in 1814. He came to South Africa as a trader. He was asked to plan Durban while it was still under the Natalia…
EventThe Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) begins
… Three years prior to this date, the British had annexed the Transvaal under … passive resistance and repeated attempts by Boer leaders to have the annexation…
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… as result of a mounting need for transport, as Natal had to hold its own in the advance of commerce and the general … approved construction of this railway,…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… African author Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner is born to Gottlob and Rebecca (Rebekah) Schreiner. During her youth … was published under the pseudonym…
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… assistance, South African Defence Force (SADF) is asked to contact its Lesotho counterparts to urge them to keep the situation calm for fear of a military…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… was eventually gunned down by police after he refused to surrender. It was generally thought that he acted alone though there were few eye witnesses who…
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… served in the South African forces in Italy. On his return to South Africa he joined the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg that led him to a lifelong…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… Mhleli Ntoni died of heart attack, after he was admitted to hospital on Thursday due to persistent cough. The famous jazz bass player was born in … a self…
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… by the police. For instance, she was accused of continuing to be a member of Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) … had been given instruction by…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). The group used literature to speak up against Apartheid and to bring about a European influence to Afrikaans literature…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 of Miss World in the same year. After winning the Miss Universe crown, Mclean moved…
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp was the first missionary to work among the Xhosa. He became involved with the Khoi … their economic plight. His advocacy for…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… studied art at the Westminster School of Art. He returned to South Africa in 1935 before leaving again, this time for … galleries and museums. Preller‘s work…
Fighting Talk
… of the content was largely on resistance by South Africans to the suppressive actions and legislation which the National Government steadily introduced prior…
PlaceIndigo Vats, Pinetown
… brick vats, secured by metal rods and covered with water to encourage fermentation. After being beaten with bamboo … processed into cakes, for export. The…
PlaceTembisa Township, Midrand
… Tembisa is a large Township situated to the North of Kempton Park , under the Ekurhuleni … people from the Northern parts of the then Transvaal came to…
SAHO Milestones
… SISA SERIES edited by Abebe Zegeye launched at the Africa to Africa Cultural Exchange Programme, Pretoria Art Museum, … but least recognised, documentary…
The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013
… by two strategic tasks, namely, using the state power to fast track service delivery. Secondly, to sustain our mass support and the confidence the people ……
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… honours in acknowledgement of their supreme contribution to the cause of freedom and human dignity. Their successful … Africa. These considerations lend a…
PlacePiquetberg
… It is now known as Piketberg. (prior to 1910) The division of Piquetberg originally fell under the district of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to…
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… 27June 1976, Air France Flight 139, en route from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stopover in Athens. The four … gang in Germany. Once hijacked, the…
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… Verwoerd resulted in the 'awarding' of 'self-government' to four of these 10 homelands including an area known as the … of three horizontal stripes of equal…
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… of a national government in which it had no say; this was to be the last all-white election in South Africa. This … by any member of the apartheid security…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… announced a ceasefire with Unita on 13 March 2002, to take effect on 14 March. Official talks between senior … neighbouring African countries. Thousands of…