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EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… Walter Battiss is born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of … became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a…
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… 1969. Albert Schweitzer used his $33,000 Nobel Prize money to expand the hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, and to erect a leper colony. Several South Africans…
EventEdenburg is founded
… was established when the farm Rietfontein was purchased to build a church. The initial application for recognition of Edenburg as a town was rejected by the…
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… solidarity with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January 1981, where more than 14 … during the raid, and was later executed when…
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… , Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) where she obtained a BA Degree. She went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. Zille became …
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second … War II, Danie Theron was found…
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective. It had taken a whole year of trials and tests for the vaccine to be finally be authenticated and made available…
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… he had been living with HIV for twelve years. Cameron was a judge at the time and is one of the first few high profile people to publicly disclose their…
EventDavid Malebane, a student at the Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in the Limpopo, shoots three lecturers before shooting himself
… David Malebane was a student at Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in Limpopo. He had failed to graduate several times and when he received results … On 15 …
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… Dirk Hanekom and Henk Van Zyl, were apprehended on a farm in Memel district, Free State. They were taken into custody a month after a warrant of arrest was…
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… at the University of Grahamstown and later went on to teach the subject at the University of the Witwatersrand … Barnard on instruction of the Civil…
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… had settled at the Cape, the island was used mainly as a hospital for people with leprosy and the mentally and chronically ill because it was believed it was…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… ivory and slaves, while in the 1890s the British decided to gain control of Sudan. Following a series of campaigns between 1896 and 1898, an … of their many…
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… Holomisa, commander of the Transkei Defence Force (TDF), a staunch African National Congress (ANC) activist, led a bloodless coup against the Transkei…
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… Amshewitz was born in Ramsgate, England in 1882. He came to South Africa with the intention of only staying for six … genres included landscapes, portraits…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… negotiations, improved working conditions, campaigns for a national minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade … are discussed in the context of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) to the African National Congress (ANC). Contrary to many predictions, South Africa avoided a…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… details of contributors. . [Inscriptions: Inscribed to NELM by Don Mattera Signed by Mafika Gwala and James … CRITICAL articles as author 1. Gwala, M Pascal…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… 1971.[i] She attended Bellville High School, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Stellenbosch University.[ii] Kriel earned herself a gold medal at the…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… Proclaimed as a National Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official … of oaks that leads off Hof Street where the road makes a bend. Partly hidden by high…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… in 1913 and has now been imaginatively converted into a modern building. A huge collection of objects, paintings and photographs has … the most beautiful…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Sixty-five years ago Steve Bantu Biko who would become a pioneer of the Black Consciousness(BC) philosophy was born … in the liberation struggle. Biko was…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of … the ocean floor, pushing the overlying water up into a…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… the University of Leyden in Germany, Diederichs returned to South Africa and was appointed professor of Political … in the 1930s and 1940s. For instance he…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies enclosed by a bend in the Sundays River, overshadowed by the rocky … Graaff-Reinet has retained much of the…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… reptiles, birds and plants from the Karoo. The Museum has a discovery centre for children which includes a dinosaur collection and a reconstruction of a…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Contents: Comment: AW Oliphant, Stories: Going to See Mr. BV, Shimmer Chinodya; Nhamiwa's Magic Stick, Maria … Sandra Braude; In to the Death Zone, Lesego…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
… of the prettiest and oldest suburbs of Johannesburg, lying to the North-West of the city centre between Emmarentia and Darrenwood. The leafy suburb lies…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… members, Sipho Dlamini and Busi Majola were shot dead in a house near Mbabane in Swaziland. They had both formerly … and were Mbabane hospital employees. It…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… United Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch…