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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 … archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after moving…
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 … of the town. The most likely…
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
… (now Gauteng) where she obtained a BA Degree. She went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. … when she was replaced by Mmusi Maimane …
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 … in an inferno of lyddite and…
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… had taken a whole year of trials and tests for the vaccine to be finally be authenticated and made available for use. … children, leaving some with atrophic…
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… the time and is one of the first few high profile people to publicly disclose their status. Cameron has stated that … case of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was…
EventDavid Malebane, a student at the Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in the Limpopo, shoots three lecturers before shooting himself
… Seleka Agricultural College in Limpopo. He had failed to graduate several times and when he received results … that he believed were responsible for his…
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… them. Only Hanekom was charged with treason and brought to trial with 21 other alleged members of the right-wing … High Court on 19 May 2003. The Boeremag…
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 … Support Committee (DPSC). The aim of the…
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… and chronically ill because it was believed it was safer to keep them separated from the rest of the community. … into a maximum security prison in 1961. …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… and refused South Africa's repeated demands for a return to civilian rule. He insisting that a civilian government … Holomisa and his accomplices later…
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 … in 1922, spent 14 years at home, but…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… are discussed in the context of increasing resistance to the repressive National Government apartheid policies. … context and in the wider international…
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…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… than Penny Heyns, Kriel was the only other South African to receive a medal at the Atlanta Games.[vi] Kriel … ↵ [vi] Clinton Botha. 2013. Penny Heyns to pay…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… in Cape Town. Unfortunately it is generally not open to the Public! During the nineteenth Century Leeuwenhof … of the old estate. Petrus Kotzé restored…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… in the liberation struggle. Biko was introduced to politics at an early age, when one of his older brothers, … outskirts of the Eastern Cape on 18 August…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… east coast of Africa, with the furthest recorded death due to the tsunami occurring at Rooi Els in South Africa, 8000 km … epicenter. In total, eight people…
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 … was the Nationalism as Worldview and Its…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… the unique jointed pillars formed by dolerites, which rise to heights of 120 metres in places. This ‘cathedral of … study, township walkabouts and Boer War…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… Collection of 875 species of Stuffed Birds Indigenous to South Africa, including eagles, owls and even vultures. … is well used by Researchers from across…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the ‘Unban the ANC’ campaign at the Rand Supreme …
ArchiveThe African National Congress in exile: strategy and tactics 1960-1993
… A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel … apartheid government. More precisely, this study seeks to provide a…
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… husband's Qunu home. She challenged Madiba’s decision to leave the home to his third wife, Graca Machel , and her children. The court …
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… education at Tjolotjo School.In 1941 he travelled to Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) and enrolled at Adams … part in political discussions. In 1947…
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… British government was unsuccessful. Moshoeshoe was forced to sue for peace and the Thaba Busio treaty was signed. … dissatisfied with the terms of the…
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who transformed the country … himself as president for life. The…
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… among Afrikaans theatregoers. His productions also helped to create theatre awareness in the rural areas. Some of the … In 1945, the Medal of Honour for…