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EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… in Cape Town has been converted into a museum dedicated to her. In 1999 a painting by Stern was auctioned for a …
EventSouth Sudan is declared an independent state
… worse than a refugee in our own country, but we have to forgive, although we will not forget. Some of our … 2012)| Sudan Tribune , (2012), ‘Sudan & South…
EventThe Queen Mother of Lesotho, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso dies.
… child of Chief Lerotholi Mojela. The princess was sent to study at Bath Training College of Home Economics in the … 2013]| Staff Reporter. Last Lesotho Queen…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… own a reference book. Subsequently Sisuslu was confined to his house for 5 years. Before his banishment in June 1961 …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… independence there was still about 1, 2 million ha due to the homelands in terms of the 1936 Act and other …
EventAndrew Charles Hudson, South African cricketer is born
… Up until 2003, he was the only South African batsmen to score a century on his opening debut. He scored this …
EventThe University of Port Elizabeth is founded
… the Port Elizabeth campus of Vista University (Vista PE) to form the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). …
EventTony Leon is born
… democratic elections in 1999. These parties agreed to contest 2000 local elections under the banner of the …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… . In terms of these notifications Sisulu was directed to resign as member, official or office-bearer from certain …
EventDr Ben Ngubane is born
… relationship with the IFP when he resigned from the party to join its rival, the African National Congress (ANC). …
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… Municipal Transport Workers' Union and was elected to the executive committee of the union. He served in several …
EventState of emergency is lifted in Natal
… of emergency gave police and the army free reign which led to the arrest of many political activists. People could be …
EventEric Mntonga is found dead
… death. They were given sentences ranging from two to twelve years for culpable homicide and defeating the ends …
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… people on board. The ship was returning from her voyage to India when she was stranded. She had left Cochin, India, … P. (undated). South African…
EventBBC reports demonstrations at a game ranch in SA
… baby elephants from Botswana being trained for sale to zoos and circuses. TV pictures showed the animals being …
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… Town a few days later. The forecasting service was moved to Pretoria in 1926 and housed on the veranda of the weather …
EventN.P. van Wyk Louw is born
… hero's desperate struggle against a nightmarish beast to save his people's heritage of language and art. President …
EventRabbi Israel Abrahams is born
… Israel Abrahams was born in Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 1937 and held the position of chief rabbi …
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… forces and Republican General J.P. Joubert. This led to the commencement of peace negotiations, which were …
EventGriqua leader Andries le Fleur is born
… unfairly. In April 1898 Andries le Fleur was sentenced to fourteen years' hard labour for sedition, but was released …
EventVoortrekker leader Andries Pretorius dies
… area. In 1838, Pretorius led a Voortrekker commando to defeat Zulu warriors in the battle of Blood River. Apart …
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
… Omar. The next day the eleven judges took their seats to hear the first case, concerning the question of the … a chronology of key political events from…
EventGovernment withdraws ten police officers from service
… major standoff between the generals and De Klerk seemed to have been resolved when on 25 March Commissioner Johan van …
EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… by Col. Mobutu Seseseko's soldiers and transferred to Elizabethville, Katanga, where he was murdered in January, …
EventSouth African actor, Ken Gampu, dies in Vosloorus
… in South Africa. Gampu was the first South African actor to act in Hollywood films, having spent two years in the …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… Act. These organisations were left with no choice, but to operate underground. …
EventCanadians, Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod discover insulin, saving the lives of many diabetics
… Insulin is a peptide hormone used to treat diabetes for patients that would otherwise die. …
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… assault and other “unnatural acts” and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 9 years suspended. Eventually he …
EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… was the Party’s West Rand Regional Chairperson from 1991 to 2000. Ndlovu was very active in Soweto during the 1990s. …
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… Daily Mail (a newspaper banned in March 1985) that he fled to Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana). Three Months later, …