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EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… Loman in the South African production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. His highly successful career also …
EventBob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
… remember Woolmer for the circumstances surrounding his death, and his association with former South African cricket … [Accessed: 17 March 2014]| BBC News , '…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… processes by the UN, fighting only stopped at the death of Savimbi in battle in 2002. Since the beginning of …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… her release from prison. Gandhi, who visited her at her death bed, designed the Indian flag with the colours …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… John Matshikiza was a well known actor before his untimely death in 2008. …
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… heart bypass operation. It was mentioned that Treurnicht’s death had been accelerated by the arrest of the Conservative …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… was the Director-in Chief of the Ross Institute until his death in 16 September 1932. …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… was in Sabarmati prison, Gandhi started a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It …
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… and move eastwards to the royal kraal. The left or Number IV Column, commanded by Brevet Col Sir H. Evelyn Wood, …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… issued a statement from Lusaka denying involvement in his death, and praised his contribution to the struggle. Victoria … defendants, all of who faced…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… protests after the Soweto student protests and the death of hundreds Fatima Meer worked closely with South … following a stroke she suffered two weeks before…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Bob Gosani, Eli Weinberg, Leon Leveson. December 18, Steve Biko is born 1947 Industrial Conciliation (Natives) Bill 1947 …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… made at the conference click here . 18 December, Steve Biko , leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), is …
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… similar to that of Renamo which had caused enormous death and destruction in Mozambique. They had incited … irrespective of tribal origins and political…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… his steadfast resistance to apartheid until his mysterious death in 1967. Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC Youth … as the people lost fear of…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… They were all sentenced to life imprisonment, and the death penalty was not handed out. Goldberg was sent to …
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… important documents which include: your birth certificate; death certificate, school and marriage certificates. It can …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… 17 June 1992: The Boipatong Massacre takes place, with the death toll later to stand at 45. 18 June 1992: Claims of …
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… evening of 31 May 2002. Before he met with his untimely death, his cricket career was under spotlight as he was …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… became independent Mozambique's first President until his death on 20 October 1986. In 1981, 13 exiled members of the …
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… the Langa or Uitenhage Massacre. Some reports register the death tally at 28. They were on their way to attend a funeral …
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… Todd remained active in Zimbabwean politics up to his death in 2002. …
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… Bishop and the driver of the other car were killed. Her death stunned people from all races and her funeral was …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… while 31 people were arrested. However, the official death toll was given on 7 November 1984 as 23. The boycott in …
EventHarms releases his report
… forward to shed light on who is responsible for the death of anti-apartheid activists David Webster and Anton …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… that her husband has died in hospital. The cause of his death was undisclosed. However, his son who testified before …
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… to their call for a workers' stay away to mourn the death of Mxenge. As result, 30 percent of the workforce in …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… 2. The chief returned to his people and ruled until his death in 1939. Source: Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… prior attempt to assassinate him, it is possible that his death was caused by a heart attack, rather than the poisoning …