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EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… the Groote Schuur Minute the parties agreed on conditions to be met for ending political conflict in South Africa. The … Groote Schuur talks were followed by…
EventThe Groote Kerk pulpit, sculpted by Anton Anreith, is inaugurated in Cape Town
… in Adderly Street, Cape Town . Its architecture boasts a peculiar combination of Greek and Gothic styles. The … and was inaugurated on 31 January 1841. It…
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… She started writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym, Tryna du Toit. Throughout her … novels. One of her novels, Groen…
PlaceAiab, Stream in Namibia
… name of the Lewerivier is Aiab. The Khoikhoi language is a National language in Namibia, also known by the ethnic term … therefore been loosely classified as…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the racially oppressive regime. His film Place of … Weeping is one of the first anti…
Arise! Vukani!
… Eritrea, Palestine and Namibia. Support was also given to Third World countries in which ruling parties were engaged …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… on African Politics, (Hoover vol. 3 'From Protest to Challenge'). Richard Goode, 'The History of the Food and …
PlaceMacassar Beach Pavillion
… Macassar Beach Pavilion in Cape Town has been abandoned to let nature reclaim the water park. The pavilion is part of … along with the dunes was named for…
PlaceSmuts Hall, University of Cape Town
… at UCT. Your room will become the Centre of your new Home; a Place which you can make your own ..... (A comment from one of the previous students: "Smuts is…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… Since 1995, Human Rights Day has been a public holiday celebrated in South Africa. It shares the … in 1960. This gross violation of human life happened when…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
… which had been proclaimed in 1745. It was proclaimed a separate Division in 1858. On 1 January 1880 its Northern Region was separated to form the Division of…
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… height of apartheid in South Africa, New Zealand imposed a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from … of international sanctions against…
EventDr D.F. Malan unveils the statue of Paul Kruger on Church Square, Pretoria
… been previously installed at Prince’s Park and later moved to the Pretoria Station. It was unveiled by then Prime … Malan on 11 October 1954. The square was…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… and educationist was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His … personal poems. In 1995 he received the second…
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… regarded as the best court interpreter of his day and was a talented rugby and cricket player who took the lead in the … the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. Together with … elections in 1994, in the manner they…
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… instructor at Jubilee Art Centre. In 1970 he was awarded a travel scholarship sponsored by United States/South Africa … Programme and visited the United…
EventTeboho Mokgalagadi wins gold in the Paralympic Games
… George Teboho Mokgalagadi, with his hair dyed golden, won a Paralympic world record gold medal 100m sprint in his first … at the Olympic Stadium in Athens,…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, taking on political trials. He joined the United Democratic Front …
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… most successful businessman, Harry Oppenheimer, died after a short illness at the age of 91. Oppenheimer was admitted to the intensive care unit of the…
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… and his Security Police 'hit squad' was investigated by a Commission of Inquiry ordered by President F.W. de Klerk. The Commission led by Judge Louis Harms…
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… in over forty years. President Thabo Mbeki, who played a major role in the peaceful solution of the civil war, … chiefs from the vast country's eleven…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin Curren accepted a scholarship from the University of Texas, United States of … in the United…
EventEgyptian author, and trade unionist, Gamal al-Banna is born
… the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal al-Banna was a liberal scholar and a critic of the Muslim traditional narrative. Al-Banna held a … of Islam,…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… Wright succeeded in the world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the … their flying machine at Kitty Hawk, 20…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside … In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… 46 kilometres east of Petersburg (Polokwane). According to General Viljoen this took place within a mere 200 metres from the advancing enemy. The Cruesot is …
EventThe Chernobyl computer virus damages hundreds of thousands of computers around the world
… On 26 April 1999, the CIH computer virus infected a large number of computers around the world with Korea … reactor meltdown. It would infect the BIOS chip…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, … woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for…
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… the early eighties. Then, the disease was widely known as a gay man’s disease because it was first detected in … the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared…