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EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… Africa’s busiest Airport with the capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers annually. It is named after political …
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd . On 28 June 1995 Verwoerdburg acquired a new name; Centurion. …
EventDr. Jan Bouws, Dutch composer, is born
… On 28 July 1902 Jan Bouws was born in Purmerend, Holland. He …
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
… roof of the dormitory caved in and could not escape. About 28 boys were admitted to hospital with minor to severe burns. … News, " Kenya dorm fire kills 58…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… was appointed the first premier of Northwest Province in 1994. © infrasors.co.za . After the ANC won the first democratic election in 1994, Popo Molefe was…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… Kimathi (play, co-authored with Ngugi wa Thiong’o); her 1994 My Mother’s Poem and Other Songs (poetry); her 1991 … Interview with Professor Micere Mugo…
EventDiplomatic ties are established between SA and Saudi Arabia
… On 29 May 1994 the South African government signed an agreement … President Nelson Mandela to Saudi Arabia in November 1994. Two missions were established in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… June 26 is observed as South African Freedom Day, until 1994, when the date of the first democratic elections, 27 … articles, passes his exams and qualifies…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… high ground during the anti-apartheid struggle, since 1994 they have slipped into a sleazy underworld where … the ANC has been the government of South Africa…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… Rights. Until the first democratic election on 27 April 1994, the vast majority of South Africans had been excluded … when South Africa became a…
EventBeyers Naude refuses to testify before the Schlebusch Commission
… defiance and was fined R50, 00 or one month in prison. On 28 October 1976, he was arrested for refusing to pay the fine. …
EventTsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
… and was sent to Pretoria Central Prison, where he spent 28 years on death row. During the last five years of his life …
EventThomas Thornton becomes the first passenger on an aeroplane in South Africa
… Canard Seaplane. This flight took place in East London on 28 December 1909,over the Nahoon Racecourse. At the end of …
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
… troops relieved British forces at Ladysmith in Natal on 28 February, 1900. The British forces had been under siege …
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… joined the United Nations (UN) as an official member on 28 May 1993. …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new … Congress on constitutional issues (April 1990-April…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… India shall withdraw its Agent as protest against Bill. 28 October, Representatives of India, Sir Muhammad Shafi and … in Bloemfontein, votes to send…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… fundraising activities, events and exhibitions. After the 1994 elections , CAP was transformed from a training and …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… HNP 5 416 0.2% -2.7% 0 ±0 Total 2 157 593 100% 178 +11 1994 The first non racial democratic elections held in post …
EventSibongile Khumalo was born on this day
… including Nelson Mandela’s 75th birthday as well as the 1994 Inauguration.[1] She has also treated South Africans to … performances with the London…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, … and held him on death row for nearly 25 years. On 30 June 1994, the African…
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… and Trade Unions (COSATU) offices for five hours on 28 August 1990. A fine of R2 000 each or one year in prison …
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
… On 28 May 1881, Daniel Francois Malherbe was born in Dal …
EventThe Groote Kerk pulpit, sculpted by Anton Anreith, is inaugurated in Cape Town
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great architecture, … Available at: www.atlanticmarina.com …
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… surfaced in Francistown, Bechuanaland Protectorate on 28 August 1963, having flown there from Swaziland. They …
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… On 28 March 1960, Natives began making bonfires of their … Anon, (1960), ‘Passes go up on flames,’ from The Star , 28 March, (Available at National Library…
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… collecting her mail and opening the ANC Paris office in 28, Rue des Petites-Ecuries. September was investigating a …
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… Front, who died in London of an undisclosed illness on 28 October 2014. …
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… 1978. Eight days later, the security police arrested 28 black journalists and 1 white photographer during … against journalists in South Africa between…
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… On 28 May1991, Ethiopians People's Revolutionary Democratic … April 2012)|Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day in African History: 28 May’ , from About.com African…