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EventKhotso House is bombed
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based in Johannesburg, was bombed for harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a…
#JimiMatthews decision praised by Chelsea Geach (News), 28 Jun 2016
Cape Twon - The suddent resignation of SABC acting chief executive Jimi Matthews has been hailed by groups across the country as a move of integrity amidst…
Address at the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 12 October 2000
… about change at the base and foundation of the new South Africa we are struggling to create. The unequivocal …
PlaceSteytlerville Municipality, Karoo
… is one of the World’s most unique, arid zones. In South Africa it stands alone, globally it is an: "envied rarity." …
PlaceLangeberg Mountain Range, Western Cape
… Mountain Range is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is approximately 170 km long! The Marloth Nature … Mountain Range is in the Western Cape…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the Cape and South Africa. He served as one of the Imams of the Al Azhar masjied …
Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
The National Working Committee of the African National Congress, met today in its regular session to deal with organizational matters. One of the issues that…
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
Comrade Zola Skweyiya, following his resignation from parliamentary politics, has been redeployed to work at the ANC`s headquarters, Chief Albert Luthuli House…
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
The African National Congress welcomes the Western Cape Farming Sector Engagement initiative by the national government today in Paarl, Western Cape. This…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on Sunday 14 July 2013. The Programme will include a…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
On 17 February 2006 the Donen Commission of Inquiry was established by President Thabo Mbeki to probe alleged illicit activities of certain South African…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Born in 1891 (some sources say 1894), Tafari Makonnen, or Haile Selassie, as he was later known, was born the son of Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, the Governor…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
Three African National Congress members, Telle Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Semano Mosololi, and Marcus Thabo Motaung, were sentenced to death for separate attacks…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the investigation into the Bisho massacre. In…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open letter to President F. W. de Klerk to suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), General Johan van der Merwe former South African Police Services(SAPS) National Commissioner …
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
In a long-anticipated move the recently appointed Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel announced the government's macro-economic strategy, called Growth,…
EventWits attains full university status
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 437.| University of the …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
During Anglo-Boer War 2 (also called South African War) between the two former Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State Republic)…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
Mountain 1 194m high, situated just South-East of eLundi and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be Swazi for "the large one' or 'eternal one'…
PlaceBalule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… Five and all the others in the Balule Game Reserve, South Africa. Balule Game Reserve covers 40 000 hectares on the …
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
The Star reports that Bophuthatswana's administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-man commission of inquiry into…
Political executions
Name Execution date Remarks (reason for execution) Boesman, Mangena Jeffrey, 35 1989/09/29 Death of informer school teacher…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. The first ship the Truro arrived on 16 November…
EventNiger's Independence Day
Rationed away to French colonialists at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an outpost for the French…
A Walk in the Night
On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To commemorate this day, the annual Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… Lighthouses of Southern Africa by Gerald Hobberman …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story, New York: Reader's Digest …