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EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… In January 1976, a group of 100 mercenaries crossed over from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) to Angola in order to support The ……
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner … transition towards democracy in South Africa were being held. The group…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long … Joe…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. … and it impressed him immensely. Later, it…
Pedi
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … and Sepedi Northern Sotho, or Sesotho…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… the first genocides in the twentieth century. By the start of the twentieth century, the Herero people, among the original inhabitants of Namibia, found…
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… The Cathedral of St George the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide … for a grander Cathedral, but…
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… primary intention to focus public attention on the work of the teachers. UNESCO proceeded to announce that 5 October … to commemorate the Recommendation…
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… - In his presidential address to the annual conference of the African National Congress over the weekend. Dr. A.B. … urged the African people to re-elect the…
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… Two Oceans Aquarium celebrates the unique collection of Marine Life that lives off South Africa's Coasts , where … and Indian Oceans meet. Travelers can get…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… his parents were actors. He started his career at the age of eleven working on Fleet Street selling newspapers at … a lot about spies that were operating…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… carrack, Sao Bento. A carrack is a sailing sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was usually built with three masts, the mainmast and foremast being…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… The village of Great Brak Rivier was founded by Charles Searle, an … in 1859. They landed at Mossel Bay following a sea voyage of 68 days. After a few months…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect … forts were to be built initially, but due to a…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly … relationship with the Soviet Union, suggesting that…
PlaceIrma Stern Museum
… Irma Stern is considered one of South Africa’s most prolific and powerful artists who … during her lifetime with critics dubbing her art "The Cult of…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… reports about what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and most powerful … tied to…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… Mbuli became known as the "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and … him to retreat…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… heritage month, when the histories and cultural practices of all its peoples are celebrated and due recognition given … and women who have contributed to the…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… for their cattle. The Trek Boers preferred the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into…
France in 1789
… or society. A political revolution happens when a group of people rebel against the existing government and attempt … An economic revolution takes place when…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… mistress, Joey Haarhoff, commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and … and lover, Joey Haarhoff, were linked…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… hailstorms, rainsqualls and lightning, claiming the lives of at least 14 people and leaving hundreds injured or … tornado struck without warning in the…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919…
Domestic work
… Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… been increased from one to two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the war was one of the set-piece battles, but from July 1900 onwards the … decided cut off the…
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. D. Barmania, one of the secretaries of the…