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PlaceHillside House, 14 Bird Street, Port Elizabeth
… 1824. The building was presumably erected after that date and is richly decorated with a number of Victorian … including its Harbour Master, the Civil…
EventIt is announced in Rawalpindi that Pakistan has decided to cut ties with South Africa
… decided to ban all exports from Pakistan to South Africa and has issued instructions to Pakistan shipping companies not to enter South African ports. Landing…
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… France after two years of negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was … the country’s Prime Minister, abolished…
EventThomas Kgope is born
… for whom he worked as electrician, gave him some material and demonstrated basic art techniques to him. He exhibited in 1987 and 1988. References: Sack, S. …
EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
… to the House of Assembly, two Whites to the Senate, and three members to the Natal Provincial Council on a communal franchise with educational and property…
EventProminent leaders are arrested in Uganda
… Luwum, Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-ZaÁƒÂƒÂ¯re, together with two government ministers, … Dada. They were killed while under…
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… team, which consisted of police, military, legal and political experts, further concluded that South Africa's … violence was to move speedily toward…
EventP.W. Botha resigns from the National Party
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) and head of state, P.W. Botha, resigned from the party in … of rising political instability, growing economic…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of political prisoners
… the liberation movements African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). This demonstrated the … Motsoaledi, Wilton Mkwayi, Ahmed Kathrada…
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Former Director of the Office of West African Affairs and Ambassador to Liberia, Edward Perkins, was appointed as … Reagan. He was instrumental in efforts to…
EventNNP federal council decides to disband the party
… eight voted in favour of the motion, two disagreed and three abstained. The council decided to join the African National Congress (ANC) and fight all future…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… 38, head of the Free State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at … house in Bloemfontein. The murder…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and a Provincial Executive Committee member of the African … Congress (ANC) in Gauteng. She was MEC…
EventMiriam Makeba is nominated for a Grammy
… in Los Angeles, USA. The album was released world-wide and featured a collection of songs from buoyant to the plaintive, illustrating the vocal range and…
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… back to Nongoma. Two Zulus were killed in confrontation and about 48 000 head of cattle looted from the Boers during … because feeding the Zulu force of 6…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… of five years' imprisonment for kidnapping four youths and a one year sentence related to a charge of being an … in favour of a fine that was a payment of…
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… Nkrumah. The bomb, intended to eliminate Nkrumah, exploded and killed four people, scores of whom were left injured. … which he used to imprison more than 1…
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… The military base was founded in 1905 by the British Army and was named Robert Heights after Lord Roberts, a British soldier and one of the best commanders…
EventRuben Xulu, SA artist, dies in Marian Hill
… Ruben Xulu was a sculptor who specialized in wood and stone. He was born deaf on 10 May 1955. His disability … Hlabisa mission station, where he had…
ArchiveTowards racial justice: will there be a change of heart?
… on July 3, 1979 in which the author portrays the social and political injustices in South Africa. Further discussion … by the white population in South…
ArchiveMoral suasion
… 30th lecture delivered by Dr. Hugh Ashton in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series on january 18, … situation with an emphasis on race…
ArchiveSouth African Church leaders confront the Sstate
… 125 clergy assembled at Cape Town's Anglican Cathedral and after a brief service set out on the short walk to … the leading clergy were bundled into police…
African Statistics Day
… the Joint African Conference of Planners, Statisticians, and Demographers. The day is celebrated each year in order to … important role statistics plays in…
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… force demanding the end of UN Trusteeship over Cameroon and full independence of the country. Mounie was poisoned by … Agency, William Bechtel. He was a…
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ArchiveMemorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
… National Seminar in 1964. States that some of the terms and phrases used in the seminar paper may have had a … gives his view on propositions stated by…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… was constructed by means of combining the traditional oval and road course.[ii] The racecourse hosted the penultimate … Motorcycle Championship Grand Prix in…
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… the territory; they declined the German’s proposition and insisted on an unconditional surrender. As per agreement … Louis Botha, Colonel de Waal, Major Bok,…
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… young Mbeki joined the ANC Youth League at the age of 14 and became active in student politics. After his schooling at … Party (NP). The NP withdrew from…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… rejected our demands for the recognition of our Union and the amelioration of our conditions, and they force us to take strike action against them to … stand…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… Verwoerd firmly believed that races should be kept apart and each race should develop along its own lines. … South Africa was changing from a monarchy to a…