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EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is installed
… On his return from exile to St Helena, King Goodwill Zwelithini was installed as the … ceremony took place after his 21st birthday and marriage to his first…
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… Safari-1 nuclear reactor and highly enriched uranium (HEU) to fuel it. South Africa's nuclear program began after World … ambitions. South Africa is the only…
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few hours after approximately one thousand residents of the pro-African National Congress (ANC) J1…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… of the more than seventy-five organisations represented at a meeting in Durban to initiate the creation of a united front in negotiations with the South…
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
… On 2 October 1990 Nic Cruse, an employee at PC Plus, opened a parcel containing a bomb in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, … had previously…
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… were released in Cape Town after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act. The five are … movements and activities and barring them…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested … general outcry, because they were convicted and sentenced to death…
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched to articulate the interests of Traditional Leaders and act as … was largely set up by Moutse Traditional…
EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… at the Johannesburg magistrate's court. The first, a minor explosion that acted as a decoy, was followed by a second more powerful charge … Square at the…
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… In a low key event in Crystal Palace, England, South African … the sporting fraternity by running bare-footed on her way to claim this magnificent…
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng’s 2 years suspension
… 11 May 2005 from all competition for two years, following a drug test on 21 February of that year. According to ASA the International Association of…
EventPharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit
… nine international pharmaceutical companies brought a lawsuit against the South African government for patent … companies were demanding millions of dollars…
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… The National Assembly votes by 213 to 106 to pass the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Bill, which …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Swanepoel is notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 16 June 1976. The … Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… in One Day International (ODI) matches played from 26 to 30 December against England in Port Elizabeth , South Africa. In later matches he suffered for a…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was regarded in many quarters as an … the Young South African Chamber Orchestra of…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Armistice Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in … This is why 11 November was chosen in 1919 as…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… of Versailles. The intention of this organization was to reduce armament and to maintain peace and stability … like Russia and the USA joining the…
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… suffering from typhus, rendering them ineffective. After a month his forces were withdrawn from active duty. This … wealth. Since colonial rule their numbers…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… parents, who were South African German immigrants, were on a visit to Germany. On returning to South Africa in 1912, she was … in South Africa with the…
EventThe Stellenbosch Gymnasium is founded
… University of Stellenbosch, was opened with ceremony in a large house in Dorp Street. This was achieved on initiative … and the Rev. J.H. Neethling. The…
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
… In 1844 Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. It was proclaimed a British colony on ……
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… under intense pressure from its citizens, Gabon introduced a multiparty system; Ondimba had led the country under a one party system since he came into power…
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… the Vaal region was, renamed Gauteng Sotho name meaning "a place of Gold". Orange Free State and Northern Transvaal were changed to Free State and Northern…
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… in B Location, Kroonstad, Orange Free State. He is the son to Professor Archibald Campbell Jordan an African novelist, … academic and his mother, Dr…
EventKing Mswati III is born
… (King Mswati III) was born in Masundini Swaziland to King Sobhuza III and one of his younger wives Ntombi … of his wives acted as regents until Mswati…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… of National Unity (the democratic government since 1994) to help deal with violations of human rights during the … The Commission was charged with the…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid government…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
… Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo, Egypt. He knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… then Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger. Still hundreds flocked to the 25-September-1974 rally, leading to the arrest of most Black People’s Convention (BPC) and …