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EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… On this day, Zelda Grange was born in Pretoria, South Africa. She completed a 3-year National …
EventDiplomatic ties are established between SA and Saudi Arabia
… duty in August 2000. The Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy in Pretoria was established in 1997. …
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… Rustenburg , Durban Stadium , Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria , Cape Town Stadium , and two stadiums in …
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… Anniversary of the 1956 march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria that was organised by South African women to protest …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. …
EventThe Conservative Party is formed
… Conservative Party (CP) was founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria, with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brought …
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Installation-1) at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… as the new State President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. De Klerk had been Acting State President since 15 …
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
… unveiled the Women's Monument at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role … Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa…
EventThe first SARS case is suspected in South Africa
… 2003, a 62-year-old South African man was treated at a Pretoria hospital as a possible Severe Acute Respiratory …
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… Vice-President in 1887. Nicolaas Jacobus Smit died in Pretoria on 4 April 1896. …
PlaceRustenburg
… Political developments after the establishment of Pretoria, as the Boer Capital, its role as the centre of … a move he was asked to explain at the second…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… the police decided to transfer him to a prison hospital in Pretoria , which was 1133 km away. He died shortly after his … Council took disciplinary action…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… pass protest, the apartheid government summoned him to Pretoria. Here he was challenged to denounce the ANC or be …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… on 11 November 1965. On 23 March 1966 his trial began in Pretoria. Fischer was convicted of conspiring with the …
EventMandela visits Zambia
… in order to encourage further reforms on the part of the Pretoria government. Mandela said: "It is quite clear that …
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… by Paul Kruger's government forces between Rustenburg and Pretoria. He led a Boer commando in the First South African …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… the town of Klerksdorp and the United Kingdom Embassy in Pretoria was attacked. The violence continued countrywide and …
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… in the school choir at Kilnerton Training Institute in Pretoria. In 1957, Makeba joined the group, the Manhattan …
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… of the effectiveness of measures to be imposed upon Pretoria in order to bring about as peaceful a resolution of … directed to examine that situation and see…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… were shot dead in a siege at the Volkskas bank in Pretoria. Two hostages were killed and 9 hostages and two … A bank and twenty-five hostages are seized at…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… gains momentum and culminate in a mass demonstration in Pretoria. December, Ben Turok , secretary of the South … throughout the country, draws 500 workers…
EventMarlise Joubert, SA author and painter, is born
… in Warmbath (Bela Bela). She studied at the University of Pretoria where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in …
EventSharlto Copley is born
… Sharlto Copley was born in Pretoria on 27 November 1973. While still in high school, …
EventMbeki unveils Women's Monument at Union Buildings
… unveiled the Women's Monument at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The aim of the monument was to commemorate the role …
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… have perished at the hands of the murder squads of the Pretoria regime, which has remained true to its nature as a … in memory to our people mowed down in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… have perished at the hands of the murder squads of the Pretoria regime, which has remained true to its nature as a … in memory to our people mow ed down in…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. JN The journal of nutrition [online] …
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… ‘South African Cartoonists and Comic Strip Artists’ at the Pretoria Art Museum. References: ArcyArt.com (2011). ‘Daniel …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… imprisonment on the charges. He began his sentence in Pretoria Central Prison. …