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EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… have rejected the doctrinaire philosophy of appeasement and surrender. The decision which we have taken today is a refusal by Rhodesians to sell their…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… issues discussed at the talks was the disarmament of UNITA and its integration into the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and Angolan police, a pending resolution…
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… ministers from the apartheid era appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The four were former Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok,…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, and the random destruction of landmines. On 2 November 2002, … Wales Memorial Fund to help South…
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… the head of counterintelligence Gen. Krappies Engelbrecht, and the commander of the central investigation department … in KwaZulu-Natal, such as vigilantism,…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… right through Warden on the route between: Johannesburg and Durban , just North of Harrismith . It falls under the … Church (seating as many as 1750 people…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… These were part of a Boer concentration camp in Uitenhage and moved in 1900's, to Red Location, where the first urban … during the years of Apartheid. Many…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… at the age of 80. She was a practicing Roman Catholic nun and was recruited into the anti-Apartheid struggle by … church, Sister Ncube used her faith to…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
… Contents and Contributors Stories: A Conversion by Michael Silum, It … by Denis Beckett; Man Against Himself by Joel Matlou. Jazz and Rugby, Tough Games…
EventLalla Hirayama, the Japanese-born South African television personality is born
… “It” girl.[i] She is a television presenter, model, dancer and actress.[ii] She is one of the hosts on the live … for the Channel O African Music Video…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… where the road makes a bend. Partly hidden by high pine and wild-fig trees, against a background of Table Mountain and commanding an incomparable view over…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… form. It was one of the first houses to use electricity and had one of the first telephones installed in Pretoria in … in which President Paul Kruger was to…
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… Student Organisation (SASO), banning the organisation and its structures. On 28 April 1978, AZAPO was formed but harassment, detention and torture of several…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee was found on this … the Natal North Coast. Giving testimony…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… the beginning of an eventful relationship between the Zulu and the Voortrekkers. Retief was in high spirits at the … allowed to settle Natal. Following talks…
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… the Karoo on 10 August 1783. The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally "those who trek ahead") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… of Leyden in Germany, Diederichs returned to South Africa and was appointed professor of Political Science at the … in Afrikaner nationalist circles…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… with Germany. In 1964, Britain released the colony and it became Malawi, with Kamuzu Banda sworn is as the … of the southern continent, in particular, South…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women took to the streets in a series of rallies. In addition to the right…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… South Africa's Architectural Masterpiece! Designed and built by Herbert Baker and completed in 1913, the Union Buildings houses the … Africa . Today it is…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… Siding, Eastern Cape, is 9 km West of Fort Beaufort and 7 km East-Northeast of Brakfontein. It takes its name … that of a former chief, Xoxo. Who was the…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
… with senior officials of the ANC during such appointments and changes to the composition of the national executive, the … a distinct impression that the ANC…
PlaceEllis Park
… its old name Ellis Park Stadium, was constructed in 1928 and was first named for Mr J.D. Ellis who initially made the … is home to Johannesburg's rugby team,…
PlaceGabon
… with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. Autocratic presidents ruled Gabon … In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… memoir stands out, because it is so well-written and because he brings to it the insights of a historian and social scientist. Author of major book on the…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with complete oneness of purpose in their determination to beat back the fascist attack on the…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… The negotiating parties ie. The South African Government and the country's liberation movements including the African … Party (CP), Azanian People's…
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
… it was discovered that adding anticoagulant to blood and refrigerating it allowed for longer storage times, which … after being promised a ducat each…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Osman Latief, a resident of Vrededorp, … arrived at between the British Indian…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… in March 1968, a shipment carrying the latest Korgs, Moogs and Hammond organs set off from Baltimore harbour, heading … The sea was steady, the containers…