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ArchiveNamibia resource package
… and Untag, 8 Current situation why South Africa agreed to the settlement, 9 SWAPO, SWAPO economic programme and …
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… as its first occupant. Admiral Lord Nelson is presumed to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons …
Yarra Yarra, St Georges Street, Simonstown
… formed part of the Studlands estate which had been granted to JP Eksteen on 5 May 1779 for the erection of a wijnhuis. …
PlaceAbraham Fischer Men’s Residence, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
… . The men's hostel and the main building were the first to be erected on the site of the former Grey's University …
PlaceThe Pines, Parktown, Johannesburg
… elements. In its time it made an important contribution to the unique Architectural character of the suburb. It was …
EventA Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain
… October 1951. It was operating a service from East London to Durban when it crashed, killing all seventeen passengers. …
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… In 1980, six months after he was denied admission to proceed with his law studies at the University of the …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… of Victoria Mxenge who, in December 1985, while preparing to defend the United Democratic Front and the Natal Indian …
EventFormer Springbok rugby captain, Franscois Pienaar, is born
… August 1996. Many would recall for leading the Springboks to victory in the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup. Pienaar was …
EventAWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested
… city hall on 9 August 1991. Three people were reported to have been killed outside the hall. …
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… (MK) in Zambia, was appointed as new chief-of-staff of MK to succeed Joe Slovo, who had been appointed general …
EventTshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
… they were not justified, as the municipality was failing to deliver services. …
EventSchabir Shaik is convicted on two corruption charges
… Zuma, prompted the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to ponder opening a corruption charge against him. In his …
EventDefence Minister disputes HIV statistics in SANDF
… the percentage was about 22% or 23%. Lekota was responding to a question from Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentary …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… by the Durban Supreme Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha Massacre. The KwaMakutha attack, in … a chronology of key political events from…
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… (ICU) when it relocated its headquarters from Cape Town to Johannesburg. During the term of office of J.T. Gumede, …
PlaceCentlivres, a Railway Siding-16 Km from Uitenhage
… of John Centlivres Chase, a British settler who emigrated to South Africa in 1820, and served as Civil Commissioner of … of John Centlivres Chase, a British…
EventMafeking is established
… was the chairman of the land commission, established to settle all land disputes in the territory after the …
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat Hulett Sugar, a …
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… born in 1951 in Eesterus before the residents were moved to Mamelodi. He was the headmaster of Mamelodi High School …
EventScientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan
… identified the virus that had been causing the deaths to be the Marburg Virus. …
ArchiveMajority rule: some notes
… the concept Majority Rule and analyses it with regard to its meaning in the South African situation. This concept …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… Tebatso Moerane and Epainette Mbeki, and he was uncle to Thabo Mbeki and Marumo Moerane. He was the first African …
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
… a peaceful transformation from an apartheid regime to democracy. …
EventPresident Barack Obama visits South Africa
… Obama, accompanied by his family, made his first visit to South Africa since he was elected President of the United …
PlaceAll Saints Mission, Eastern Cape
… the Land on which it was established had been allocated to Archdeacon HT Waters by Chief Faku in 1859 on All Saints' …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 16 May 1983, Volume 68 and Volume 69
… (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 14 March 1983, Volume 46
… (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 11 March 1983, Volume 45
… (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the …