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EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… out on 11 October 1899, and Kruger, now 74, remained in Pretoria as a result of poor health until 1900. He left the …
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… Napier in the Cape, she spent most of her working life in Pretoria, where she worked as a translator and eventually …
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… stations in Soweto and the Wonderboom Police station in Pretoria in which four policemen were killed. The three, …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… S.B. (eds) (1993). South Africa in the 20th Century, Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic, pp. 439 & 540. SAP Image …
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… women began their basic training at the police College in Pretoria on 1 March 1972. On the surface this looks …
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… of a police unit, C10 based at Vlakplaas, a farm outside Pretoria. He was also convicted of scores of lesser crimes, …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… Department of Geography & Geoinformatics, University of Pretoria [online] available at: http://web.up.ac.za [accessed …
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria replied that Johannesburg was named after Johann … Die Erasmusse van Garstfontein , (Thesis), University of…
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… a march by 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against pass laws. This march was one of …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… State Pathologist, Professor I.W. Simpson (University of Pretoria) and Jonathan Gluckman, pathologist appointed by the …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born : 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died : 1968 Swaziland Education : High School, … Themba. Can Von Themba was born in 1924 [i]…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… 20 June 1892. By 1 January 1895 the railway is extended to Pretoria, and the line is officially opened on 27 June 1895. … Nelspruit 1900-1996 1900 May, Paul…
ArchiveSechaba as mondstuk in die ANC se stryd teen blanke oorheersig, 1967-1989
… in die Fakulteit Lettere en Wysbegeerte, Universiteit van Pretoria. Die ontbanning van die African National Congress …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… On 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close vicinity of the …
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… extradition to South Africa. His trial was held at the Pretoria Supreme Court in 1979. His charges included seven …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… the 1981 bombing of the Voortrekkerhoogte Military base in Pretoria and to show their dissatisfaction to the United …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South African Yearbook 2001/02, Pretoria: GCIS, p. 125. 'Communications'. In the Government …
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… of China, issued a statement on 27 February 2007 in Pretoria in which he promised to increase imports from Africa …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… to South Africa, he studied nature at the Waterberg in Pretoria. He studied termites, puff adders, spitting cobras …
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… perpetrated against the people. The dungeons of the Pretoria regime are bursting at the seams with the arbitrary … us are. It is also significant that while…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… van Zyl Slabbert when he resigned in 1986. Born in Pretoria to an Afrikaner family, van Zyl Slabbert grew up in …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… of Ruth First and Albert Luthuli, at the Idasa offices in Pretoria. …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… dealt successfully with a manhole on the Johannesburg/Pretoria road which housed the telephone cables between the …
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… is launched at the Lucas Van Den Bergh Community Hall in Pretoria. 25 March, The sangoma believed to have performed …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… 2,000 women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria, planning to meet with the Cabinet ministers …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… class student organizing protest at The University of Pretoria against an unequal education system, and … is an undergrad student activist at the University…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… Zuma “several times” around 1998. When she was employed in Pretoria in 2001‚ she saw him for the first time in person. … On her return the next year‚ she…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… ↵ [4] Elma Hanekom, Die Funksionele Waarde van Fanakalo (Pretoria: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, 1988), … to Die Funksionele Waarde van Fanakalo,…