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EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) to restore order and expel the Belgians but was not successful. Later … Southern Kasai. DRC President, Kasavubu…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was … in the Communist Party organ, The…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… complete his studies. While in Lesotho, he joined the ANC and furthered his studies. He later went to England and obtained a Master of Arts Degree in…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… Africa was going to change from a monarchy to a republic, and at the same time to request permission to remain within … was strongly opposed by African…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… punishable by a three-year gaol (prison) sentence, and prohibited the offer or acceptance of financial or other … or modification of any law," would also be…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Joe Slovo , the former South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… organisation, served an important role in unifying and voicing student protests against laws decreed to limit … the Pass laws, endorsing a call for a…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… been one of the most hated pieces of apartheid legislation and had been used against tens of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters. The decision to repeal…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… Well-known South African anti-apartheid journalist and former editor of The World newspaper, Percy Qoboza, died … birthday in Johannesburg after having a…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… in Nelspruit near South Africa's border with Swaziland and Mozambique late on Tuesday evening. Chauke, a former … police had named him as their most wanted…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… controversy including charges of racism, nepotism and mismanagement in the sport. On Thursday 7 May, South … 7. On Sunday, 10 May 1998, Luyt resigned from…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… of Defence Magnus Malan ended on 11 October when he and other officials were cleared of all charges relating to … Judge Jan Hugo concluded his judgment,…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… to South Africa by the Cape Government to investigate and find a cure for a cattle plague, which broke out during … most of southern African, but it hit the…
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a remarkable influence on the future of … influenced civil rights movements all…
PlaceRosmead
… Middelburg Road was a Cape Government Railway station and was formally established on about 2 April 1883, when the … to its location at the junction of the…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… he kept too near to the treacherous coast. Seven women and thirteen children were helped into the only two … line on deck. Some of the men managed to reach…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… than 4000 trainees complied with the minister's deadline and returned to camp. The trainees cited their unhappiness … with the slow pace of integration into…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… Tsafendas was institutionalised in other Germany, England and the United States of America and twice escaped from mental institutions before settling in ……
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… cameramen Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva documented the bloody chaos that took place in … during a firefight between the…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… became increasingly aware of the oppressive system she and her family were living under. When Mudaliar was sixteen she joined her mother and a large group of…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated with an honours degree in English in 1960 and an honours degree in Mathematics the…
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… (now Mozambique). He was born into a Tsonga royal family and was a shepherd as a child. Mondlane completed his … He then went to study at Lisbon University…
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… did not have much interest in academia. He loved to ski and was made captain of the Cambridge ski team. His other interest was flying and in 1932, he joined…
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… 2 August to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decided to embark on a boycott of classes. Two days later, a fire destroyed classrooms and the…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic … It paved the way towards a new democratic dispensation and…
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… player in Test cricket history to have taken 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs. This milestone was reached on the fifth day of the second and final Test of…
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… penetration. It occupies most of the Congo River basin and was controlled by the Belgian King. The region’s workers … percentage of land that was not farmed…
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… of Prince Maurice of Orange in the Netherlands and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. This number was later reduced … (Lords 17). The Chartered Company was…
EventKenya is granted independence
… Minister. The Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed the first all … became the leader of the Kenya…
ArchiveRegional mini-conference report, Lusaka
… recruitment, open membership, the Constitution, strategy and tactics, the Bantustans, contradictions in the enemy … infiltration, negotiations, structures,…