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EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, for which he is arrested and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of … to the hearts of people the world over,…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… camp. He constructed a bomb, using a milk tin, cordite and a fuse and, with the help of fellow prisoners Andrew Mohudi, Sam Police and Koos Williams, managed…
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… He soon became a leading figure within the organisation, and by 1975 he was a member of the PAC's central committee and appointed director of foreign affairs…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… at the Katlehong taxi rank, where mourners were waylaid and ambushed. Through this incident the National Peace … a new wave of violence between the…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel … Bacher acknowledged that it was time…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… Madikizela-Mandela) bodyguards, including Jerry Richardson and Jabu Sithole (coach of the Mandela United Football Club) … Richardson was later convicted of…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… which ruled over the Zimbabwean people in the 15th and 16th century. Rain Queen Modjadji VI began her reign in … is the first Rain Queen to have received…
EventMangosutho Buthelezi reveals his daughter died from HIV/Aids
… hoping that it would lead to open discussions about AIDS and contribute towards the destigmitisation of the disease. … said: "We have done too little. How…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… South African author. After completing a degree in English and Mathematics, he went on to complete a PhD in English, Linguistics and German languages. In…
EventBotha found Guilty
… subpoenas to testify in public before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the body responsible for … the apartheid era. Botha was fined…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC), General Johan van der … of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of…
EventRashaad Staggie shot dead
… Town-based Muslim organisation, People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), resulted in the killing of a highly … the Hard Livings gang. Staggie was set…
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… On 19 September 1849, The Neptune entered and anchored in Simon's Bay (now Simonstown) in the Cape, … prisoners, as was the case in Van Diemen's Land …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… incident reflected the rising tensions between the ANC and IFP, which had begun in the 1980s in KwaZulu-Natal and had then spread to other provinces in the…
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… group in Kenya, the Luo. He entered politics in 1947 and soon found himself a staunch supporter of then political … gained independence in 1963, Kenyatta…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… still a detective, Stander would rob banks on his off days and even during his lunch time. He robbed several banks in … in prison where he befriended two…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… embarking on a political career, Makgato wa a teacher and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African Native … the ANC is thought to have become…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province (now … known as Eastern Cape). He was the…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… It was a highly anticipated match, as the boxing world and Coetzee’s fans watched in bated breath to see if the … big one. Coetzee won the match by knock out…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… He studied fine art at the Witwatersran Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg. After his … of International Education. He left…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… matriculating he joined the South African Police service and served for five years before he left to become a farmer. … the end of Apartheid in 1990 as the…
Message to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President, Anti-Apartheid Movement, on the 25th Anniversary of its Founding by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1984
… Movement on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding and wishes you ever greater successes in your efforts to … once the nerve centre of a vast empire of…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… racial separation of sport was South Africa's 'tradition and custom'. Fifa's preferred approach was to encourage SAFA … However, SAFA was determined to…
ArchiveFriedenskraft die frieden scrafft
… Black, red and white poster. Artwork of a hammer and sickel and bullets. …
ArchiveFizma: per il diritto alla giustizia
… White poster with red and black lettering and artwork. P.C.I. flag and logo. …
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… the Settlement by ploughing up a strip of land 3.6m wide and " to plant and sow bitter almonds and all kinds of quick-growing thorn bushes in the form of a …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… By April 1927, an hour of Afrikaans programming and one daily news bulletin in Afrikaans was broadcast. … funding began to hamper the progress of the…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… of Florida. The structure was enlarged by three cells and an office shortly before the turn of the 20th century, … 23 September 1988.The property together…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… lease for the IEC’s head office in Centurion, Pretoria, and had an “unmanaged conflict of interest” as a result of a separate and undisclosed business…
Event90-Days Act comences
… unlawful those organisations existing since 7 April 1960, and enables authorities to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and…