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EventEgyptian and Israeli forces in fierce fights
… From 6 to 26 October 1973 Israel and a coalition of Arab nations led by …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… in Cambridge, where he became a teacher and fellow. On 26 October 1813, Fallows was appointed to be the principal …
EventLiberia is established
… On 26 July 1847 the Liberian Declaration of Independence was …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… Africa since 31 May 1928 until just before midnight on 26 April 1994.The national flag first flew on 10 May 1994 …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… Zolla Budd was born to an Afrikaans family on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein. She was one of five children. …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… The Defiance Campaign was launched two months later on the 26 June and took the form of large-scale contraventions of …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in…
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
… Organisation, [online] Available at www.ilo.org, [Accessed 26 May 2011] …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Farewell arrived aboard the Antelope . It numbered about 26 persons and included in its number a Dutchman, Josias … laying in additional stores, it headed…
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… (b. Eisfeld, Germany 11 May 1852, d. Zurich, Switzerland, 26 January 1932), who founded a diamond company in Kimberley … Professor. Umhlangano Banner,…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… the Congress since the National Day of Protest—26th June 1950. The white rulers have concentrated all their energy …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… with dismissal. The chamber made a final offer on 26 August, on the 18 th day of the strike, but NUM refused to … announced on 29 August that it accepted the…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… http://www.dailymaverick.co.za McKune, G. Brummer, S. 06 Sep 2013. “Investigators: ‘Gold Fields bribed Mbete’. Mail …
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… this dichotomy is made evident: Mbatha Elizabeth (b.1950) Double turkey jar Through Gowenius, [Azaria] Mbatha … of the work. Shilakoe, who died tragically at…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… extraordinary response; there can be no half measures”. [26] President Cyril Ramaphosa said that contact between … strict government actions) of South…
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
Clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, who combined politics and Christian ethics to…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 25 Denis Goldberg: Rivonia Trail's 'Baby' turns 80 Chapter 26 Community H.E.A.R.T Chapter 27 The Freedom Charter …
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… Army closes down sinister CCB, The Daily Mail, Vol 1, No 26, p. 5. Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor …
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… on the Castle of Good Hope was complete on the 26 April 1679, and the five bastions were named after the …
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… Homestead’[online] Available at www.swelco.co.za [Accessed 26 July 2011] The-art-world.com, 2011. ‘Pieter Wenning - …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… to rally to the decision demanding a National Convention.' 26 June, despite state harassment, around 50 percent of black … 80 percent of Indian children did…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. …
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
Post-detention weapons
… provisions of the Suppression of Communism Act (SCA) of 1950, which were more far-reaching. Section 10 of this Act … The Internal Security Act (ISA) of 1976…
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial elections. The elections resulted…
EventWomen's Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… 000 people from all over the country, was to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during the Anglo-Boer War …
History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Africa: 1932 - 1949 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… convicted of attacking police stations, are hanged. 26 June, A sculpture in a city park by Elisabeth Frink … 17th September, and up to 65% of residents heed…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on …