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EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… National Congress, was subjected to harsh criticism and utterances verging on libel, due to the position he took … Kurdish homeland. Mandela however later…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone. … controlled by forces or factions opposed to…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… which had experienced tremendous social, political, and economic upheaval. This development happened largely … President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… as Khama the Good) of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, Bechuanaland had been put under … 19th century. Seretse’s name means ‘the…
ArchiveNUMSA
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. Notice of a NUMSA ten year rally on 24th … NUMSA logo. Short history of NUMSA events of the seventies and eighties…
ArchiveExhibition cultural day
… White background with black and red lettering. Green centre with image of man with gun under helmet and red lettering - art and militarism. Organised by…
ArchiveDont be misled : join Projects
… White poster. Title in red letters outlined in black. Black and white image of P W Botha wearing a tie with a hangman's noose on it. Black and white image of…
ArchiveQuote from Desmond Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg
… Black and white poster. Quote from Desmond Tutu. Artwork of black man and white woman holding hands above their heads in a chain of people. Related poster…
ArchiveSeminar on creative writing
… Black and white poster. Notice of a Seminar on creative writing at the National Museum, Gaborone, on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November. Artwork of a…
ArchiveNative Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, Act No 48 of 1953
… The Act was to provide for the prevention and settlement of native labour disputes and for the regulation of conditions of employment of … natives; to amend…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… as a nurse. [1] He matriculated in Swaziland in 1966 and went on to study at the universities of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cambridge and the University…
South Sudanese Independence Granted
… rebel leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and vice-president of then-Sudan, leads the calls for a … an end to the 220-year war that had plagued the…
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… national hockey team at the 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, and 2012 London Olympic Games; as well as 2002 Perth, 2006 Madrid, and Rosario 2010 Hockey World Cups…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… school than a prison, with beautiful mountainous backdrops and vineyards all around. This Groot Drakenstein Prison was formerly known as Victor Verster…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of … Transvaal. He was the second child of…
PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, missiles, uniforms, aeronautical displays and paintings. …
PlaceBakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open-Air Museum, in Polokwane
… Experience the warm hospitality and rich Culture of the Basotho people in the 'Bakone Malapa … of the Northern Sotho Cultural group, welcome visitors and…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… A hybrid of the album was released in the United States and went platinum, helping the group win the award. Their genre is considered to be Scathamiya and…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… Sixth South African Armoured Division, the most powerful and best equipped of the South African divisions, commanded … Sixth Division served as part of the…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically … Newcastle, Natal. As minister he…
EventThe Conservative Party is formed
… It brought together, in alliance with Dr. Treurnicht and the National Party rebels, the National Conservative Party (NCP or Nasionale Konserwatiewe Party)…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… parcel bomb. As a result, Black students boycott lectures and their institutions were forced to shut down. Tiro's … were exhumed by the Azanian People's…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… Shariff a freelance photographer was shot in the back and killed while covering an African National Congress (ANC) … Apparently, the gunshots were intended…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… Party, Independent Party, the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force of 'Ontevrede Afrikaners' (Dissatisfied … Alliance (DA) in 2000, when the…
EventSAA Helderberg 747 crashes
… Margo, reported that the fire was fuelled by plastic and cardboard packing materials, but the actual source of … been the cause of ignition. According to…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… after talks between minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha and his Botswana counterpart Gaositwe Chiepe. The government … cover the cost of reconstructing…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… Court upheld the ruling of the Pretoria High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal to deny the state leave to appeal against the ruling. Basson had been…
EventJan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… in Cape Town. It was sculpted in bronze by John Tweed and donated to the city by Cecil John Rhodes, a politician and financier of the late 19th century. Near…
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… On 19 and 20 January the British forces under Lord Chelmsford, who … The sprawling camp covered an area of half a mile long and 300 yards across, with space…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… debut solo exhibition reflects three years in the life and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and stand as a testimony to…