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EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… The FA took part in the1999 election and Luyt was elected to Parliament. He served as a Member of Parliament for two …
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… Game Park, Botswana. Taylor and Burton were both married to other people when they first met. The marriage proceedings …
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… formed the country. In 1972, the CLSTP changed its name to MLSTP. During the elections MLSTP won all 16 seats in the …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo win a Grammy
… Joseph Tshabalala, became the first South African group to win a Grammy award. The group won the award for the best …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… ranging from disarmament and militarisation of outer space to the environment, poverty and globalisation. The live …
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… study on the impact of war on children. The couple decided to tie the knot on Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday. Their …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… General J.C. Smuts of South Africa. Smuts gave substance to the vague aspirations in a paper later published as The …
EventAlbert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity
… journal. These are the papers that history has come to call the Annus Mirabilis Papers. In one of the four papers …
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… Maurice Denis and Roger BissiÁƒÂƒÂ¨res. She returned to South Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Second …
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… monument 17:30 – 20:00 - ATKV Christusfees Here is a link to the full programme: …
EventLevy Mwanawasa, third President of Zambia dies in Paris , France.
… He studied law at the University of Zambia and went on to form his own law firm, Mwanawasa & Company. He left the …
EventSpringbok rugby player, Schalk Burger is born in Port Elizabeth
… Georgia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Burger is considered to be one of the most hardworking players in South Africa. In …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… the language as a medium of education in 1976, which led to the Soweto’s student uprising. …
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… and also fluent in isiZulu. His international fame led to his undertaking a series of lecture tours in Spain, the … Encyclopaedia of Literature: Burghers of…
EventStephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born
… edition of the works of Herman Charles Bosman from 1997 to 2006 Internationally, Gray has held fellowships in …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… Republic of Congo (DRC) was killed by gunshot. According to reports Kabila was shot by one of his bodyguards in front …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… June 1964, Sisulu and other treason trialists were taken to Robben Island, where he spent 25 years before being …
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… for the Transvaal, Mr. P.S. Claasen. According to reports, one of the detainees had died while in custody …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… De Kadt, Raphael. From Apartheid to Democracy: Logics of Dissolution, Patterns of Continuity. … 2001. Karis Tom. and Gwendolen M. Gerhart. From Protest to…
20th Time of the Writer
… the theme ‘The past paving the future’, is also going to be spectacular.” Click here for more information. …
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… been told that other papers or organizations have refused to print this document, including the Pan Africanist Congress …
ArchivePress cuttings-repression of youth
… were detained, an article on Sowetan regarding fun run to launch the International year of the youth in Soweto that …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… Day, Colin Legum. The Lost Dream, Peter de Francia. Return to the Congo, Frank Barber. Africanisation, R.W. Kawawa. …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… O.D. Wollheim. The Trial Takes Shape, Tony O’Dowd. A Day to Remember, Christopher Gell. Portrait of a Suburb: …
PlaceElsie’s River
… shot dead two 15-year-olds! This suburb was restricted to Coloured people! Today Elsie's River has many public …
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… many social, political and economical problems still need to be solved before a new sense of the nationhood can …
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… exterior with intricately decorated pillared tiers rising to the sky above the entranceway. Built in 1905, until 1927 …
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… where he worked as a cook. Blessed with a natural ability to draw, Phaswane began training in fine art at the Polly …
EventMaxwell Mlilo, South African actor, dies of diabetes
… for 06/24/2006 South Africa: SA actor, author succumbs to diabetes [online] Available at: www.africanewssearch.com …