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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. …
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… Botha`s British Allies When the Pretoria regime imposed new restrictions on the press a week … not one of television pictures. The question is how long…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… When the Pretoria regime imposed new restrictions on the press a week … not one of television pictures. The question is how long Pretoria can continue to…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on three charges under the Official … to fifteen years imprisonment by Justice…
EventPres Mandela's testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde …
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 …
EventJustice Ludorf convicts thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the SWA administration
… The presiding judge in the Pretoria terrorist trial, Justice Ludorf convicted the thirty …
PlaceAmandasig- Akasia, Suburb in Gauteng
… South Africa. It is situated to the North West of the Pretoria CBD, on the Slopes of the Magaliesberg. It used to … South Africa. It is situated to the north…
"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…
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. …
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… Hull and Lewis went to their deaths on the scaffold at Pretoria Central Prison singing the ‘Red Flag’ (the official …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 493. Potgieter, D.J. et al. …
EventA national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church, meets to discuss the ‘poor White problem’
… Stellenbosch (1893), Cradock (1916), Bloemfontein (1923), Pretoria (1930), and another in Bloemfontein (1933). However, …
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC Publishers . Molema, S. M. 1966. Montshioa: …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… (Paper flower). The ceremony was held at the University of Pretoria. The Hertzog prize is named in honour of General …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… The building of the Delagoa Bay railway line to Pretoria was completed on this date. It was scheduled to be … oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau; ---,…
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… was ultimately defeated in 1879 and imprisoned in Pretoria. Click here to read more about the Bapedi Kingdom. …