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EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… The unbanning allowed all political organisations to resume their political activities in Transkei. In the same …
EventMswati III becomes King of Swaziland
… who was fourteen years old when his father died, was ready to take the reigns. Queen Shongwe ruled from 1982-1983 while … Story of a Prince, Holding onto…
EventFuneral service of Wilton Mkwayi takes place in Eastern Cape
… because of his extra-ordinary credentials and contribution to building a free and democratic South Africa. His cremation …
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… Cape Town's Trafalgar High School where his opposition to white racism was formed by his teachers who encouraged …
EventPastor Sekano Ntoane is born
… and his positive leadership when the DRCA was still trying to find its feet, and his role in laying the foundations of …
EventFirst aeroplane flight takes place
… for fifty-nine seconds and travelled 852 feet. Click here to read more about the first flight. … ,[Accessed : 25 November 2013]| The EyeWitness to History…
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… the East Rand, just two weeks before South Africans went to the polls in South Africa's first historic democratic …
EventSouth African cricketer, Hashim Mahomed Amla, is born
… batsman. He is the first cricketer of Indian descent to reach the national squad. Amla began his professional …
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… organizations and supported the African bloc’s proposal to exclude the country from both the Munich Olympics and the …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Consultative Conference: Speeches and Resolutions
… 16 December, 1990, and speech by Nelson Mandela to Soccer City Rally, 16 December, 1990. …
EventLanga, Nyanga and Gugulethu students march through the Cape Town CBD
… after the ban was re-imposed, coloured students marched to the CBD, however, the police were prepared and …
EventBotha announces third naval base
… the establishment of a third South African Naval Base to be located at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres north … a chronology of key political events from…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot in the head by a gunman.
… a Ugandan socialist political leader who led the country to independence in 1962. He became prime minister of Uganda …
PlaceHouses Brill and Andrew Murray, together with Tuck Shop, Grey-College, Bloemfontein
… Sir Hamilton J Gould-Adams. The tuckshop probably dates to 1908 and has been a popular gathering place for pupils of …
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… while the other three were part of a team contracted to do work at the naval base. The accident was as a result of …
Umrabulo Roundtable discussion, 7 March 2016
… Somadoda Fikeni. Members of the media are invited to cover the discussion which will be held as follows: DATE: …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 2 September 1982, Volume 3
… (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C F Eloff, to inquire into, report and make recommendations about, the …
ArchiveA study of the theoretical aspects of ANC mobilisational methods in the Eastern Cape Townships of Cradock and Port Alfred, 1980-1988
… the mechanisms utilised by the African National Congress to mobilise support for its programme during the period …
PlaceYokohama, Muizenburg
… Province and is currently privately owned. It is amazing to see a house made out of waterproof paper material, which …
PlaceCottages 60 and 62 Simonstown Road, Fish Hoek
… and the property was soon afterwards subdivided into lots to form the township now known as Fish Hoek. The original …
PlaceRavenswood House, Hatfield Street, Gardens
… a part of the former Welgedaan Property which was granted to G. D. Vreeburg in 1707. (J. P. VAN DER SPUY, Minister of …
PlaceOfficial residence, Commander of British forces in South Africa, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… and Lord Methuen, probably also lived there. From 1921 to 1932 the building was used by the South African Air Force …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… born in Pretoria in 1883, and largely self-taught. He was to produce a number of standard South African reference books …
PlaceNorth Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg
… the “Oats King” Henry Wilson. This quaint design sought to imitate the elements of a French castle from the late …
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… at Cabinda, Angolawhile h e and his team were in a mission to find information on "hostile elements which threaten the …
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… institution in 1938 by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and …
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… new office that of Vice State President would be created to, inter alia, act as chairman of the President's Council. … a chronology of key political events…
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… of the Western Cape joined the protest and refused to attend classes.The boycott was joined by pupils at a … a chronology of key political events from…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… P.W. Botha became the first South African prime minister to visit Soweto. His visit included talks with the Soweto … A Chronology of Key Political Events…
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… at the world's major opera houses, but still finds time to visit South Africa occasionally. …