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EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… Africa. One year later, professional soccer was introduced to South Africa when, on 11 May 1959, the National Football … South Africa in 1962, the governing…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… Jean Van der Poel was a historian and teacher who played an important role in the … Royal Empire Society prize. In 1929 Van der Poel returned to South Africa…
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Mahatma Gandhi , a champion of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns … he left behind only his friend Hermann Kallenbach and a few Africans who lived…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… used by the Milner brothers, Henry, Philip and Thomas, as a weekend hunting lodge. The house became known to the people of Durban as the Elephant House after…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… British declared the Orange River Sovereignty, covering a broad area of land over the Gariep River. In July the … in Bloemfontein, Henry Warden, came under…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… the 20th Century, the economy of the Town diversified to incorporate manufacturing of railroad equipment, … foods, and refined petroleum. In 1903 Boksburg…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… A visit to Matjiesfontein is like stepping straight into the … preserved buildings, an old-world atmosphere, and a fascinating history. The Lord Milner Hotel…
EventNizaam Carr, the South African rugby player is born
… Nizaam Carr was born in Cape Town on 4 April 1991.[i] He is a professional South African rugby player, and usually is positioned as a flanker or number 8. He…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
… On October 1986, Mr Mbuyiseli Songelwa, a Queenstown community leader and high profile member of the … charges at Fort Glarmorgan Prison in East London…
NDCA Statement, 3 April 2012
… the hearing for the Appeal against the sentence handed out to them by the NDC of the ANC will be held on 12 April 2012 … House. The date of the 12th April…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… in the SA Council of Churches, and Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council … of Churches (SACC), chaired by the…
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the … of the National Union of South African Students to the…
PlaceMaitland Road
… Milestones where used to measure distance, by the early settlers, in Cape Town. A Post Office known as Eleventh Mile Stone, Maitland Road, … and one of these…
Commemorating fifty years since District Six was declared for whites only
… years ago, it was decreed that District Six should be home to whites only. All infrastructural development and … were kicked out and their homes and…
ArchiveAll That Glitters by Emilia Potenza
… The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886 was a turning point in South African history. Far more than … this changed South Africa from an…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… the regime imposed on them after their release, launched a campaign against apartheid laws by delivering political speeches at a church service outside Cape…
EventTutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
… estimated participants in Cape Town. This march leads to more peaceful marches in Johannesburg and Durban with … Anglican bishops at the helm. The marches…
EventSteytler launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
… was later renamed Progressive Federal Party (PFP) launched a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws … believed it was within the party's rights…
EventMarthinus van Schalkwyk is born
… Party in 1997 and later changed the name of the party to New National Party. Van Schalkwyk became controversial for … Under his leadership, the party support…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive president. This was a newly created position after the new…
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. … during 1984 is set at 44 as cited in the ANC's…
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… that the proposed constitutional reforms would not lead to the formation of a federal system of government based on a one man, one vote system. Instead, he…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… the South African situation and what action they needed to take in order to halt what was brewing in South Africa. … Ilo ILOHistory ProjectThe role of the…
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… issued, leaving the choice of the medium of instruction to school principals. The announcement followed about three weeks after the Soweto riots. Sources:…
EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, assigned a one-man judicial commission in the person of Justice P.M. CilliÁƒÂƒ©, Judge President of the…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah Keodirelang (ZK) Matthews , died in … 1940s and 1950s,…
EventKimberley swimmer Karen Muir (12) sets new world record
… youngest world record-holder in swimming, but she is up to now the youngest athlete ever to set a world record in any sports code. Muir set fifteen world ……
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
… Park. The conference focused primarily on the drafting of a Women's Charter and the future of the Women's National … which are part of the WNC retain their…
EventHomeland leader Qqozo stands trial
… Supreme Court. He faced charges of murder or incitement to murder, relating to the killing of Lieutenant Charles Sebe during a coup attempt in January, 1991…