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EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, Hymne … on the farm Goedemoed, Rouxville district, Orange Free State…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister … scene." From Desmond Tutu's speech …
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… James Filbert Sojane was born in the Free State in 1925. After qualifying as a teacher in the Free State, Sojane moved to Johannesburg to stay with his…
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… (ANC) as an effort to calm violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary General of the IFP, Oscar … and ANC tension Click here to read…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… the United Kingdom formally recognised the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, … of the independent Boer Republic of…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… Gariep Dam is located in South Africa, near the Town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape Provinces. The stone Bridge spanning … a short…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… fort erected in 1848, originally housed the Artillery Unit of the Free State, and depicts all major military conflicts from 1820, … depicts all the Military…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an … and prominent industrialists and by 2001 it was a state-owned enterprise…
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… Since the launch of the world's first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, … services and radio-determination capabilities. Sources state that since its…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to Kwazulu-Natal Black Management Forum Gala Dinner in his Honour Inkosi Albert Luthuli, 11 July 2008, International Convention Centre Durban
… Mr Jimmy Manyi, President of the BMF Ms Tembakazi Mnyaka, our host and chair of BMF … of achieving transformation is an effective developmental state. We…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… go on tolerating the ill-treatment they suffer in the land of their birth. Today our people are suffering as never … Authorities Act, South Africa is being…
PlaceEthiopia
… formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia , to the … suspended, and Ethiopia proclaimed a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an emergency conference in Johannesburg to consider the position of Indians in relation to the Bill. …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… ended without any resolution. In September the Parliament of the Orange Free State (now known as Free State) resolved, in accordance with a previous secret …
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria … he said, he would have stopped the trial of the 22 alleged state…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Immediately after the incident, communication … by the speaker in the event of the death…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… refugees from war in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State are camping on the city's beaches, while a further … the Transvaal comes down with smallpox, but…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Act. This apartheid law authorised the forced removal of Africans from “any area in the magisterial district of … The sense that Sophiatown was an African…
PlaceSenteeko Dam
… , Mpumalanga, South Africa, is facing an imminent risk of failure due to severe erosion and undercutting of its spillway after heavy rains, prompting urgent …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… A. A simple answer would be that they are the members of the Africanist Movement. But, if one wishes to go deeper … masses by providing them with a loyalty…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party … to gender equality, while it was also argued…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… new Cold War conflict fought along racial lines. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger soon committed to defusing the … now. As a British adviser pointed out to…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… Fund to collect money for Boer families. As the secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, Hobhouse visited … camps set up by the British in the…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 … laws and practices derived from an earlier and different state…
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… Moshoeshoe is credited as "the father of the Basotho people" as he was responsible for the creation … land was overrun by Boers from the Orange Free State…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet with the Mayor of the great city of Paris, a city whose rich history, … been the creation of a non-racial, non…
PlaceReitz
… An agricultural town in the Orange Free State province, Reitz is 51km from Bethlehem. At an altitude of 1622 metres, Reitz has an annual rainfall of about…
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… to lose its English identity in a predominantly Afrikaner state, favoured a federation. The Convention, on which the government and opposition parties of the…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… in July 1960 to dissolve the French West African colonial state and grant independence to the four regions that it was made up of – namely the Ivory Coast,…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … over 100 court sessions, resumed in Bethal (also known as State v Mothopeng and…