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EventGuinea-Bissau is granted independence
… for African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)., Almeida Cabral. Cabral was … was overthrown in a bloodless coup led by Prime…
EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… 1844 the Dutch Reformed Church bought a farm in the area and named it Victoria, after Queen Victoria. It was renamed … many attractions that include a nature…
EventThe Transkei Constitution Act is enacted
… over finance, justice, interior, education, agriculture and forestry, roads and public works. Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was elected as …
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
… awareness about the disease. The 2012 theme is “how Europe and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP countries) can strengthen …
Emissaries from Russia
… ANC adopted on the 23rd June, 1992. 2. In my Memorandum and the statement of the ANC we pointed out that South Africa … we hold the NP government entirely…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… political conditions in South Africa were disturbing and the whole world was commemorating the first anniversary … Congress (ANC),South African Communist…
Document 46 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International left Opposition to Johannesburg comrades, 23 October 1932
… comrades, We are glad to receive your letter of the 4/10 and are expecting your informational letter for publication. … Is it not so? Please write us the…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… National Party (NP) in 1948 led to friction between the UN and South Africa. The implementation of the policy of … Africa were the United Kingdom, United…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… the freedom given to Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei to choose whether, they wanted to be incorporated … ungovernable". Other parties such as the…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… more effective. She was eventually promoted to lieutenant and had regular contact with the security forces at their … from the security forces with the…
EventNizaam Carr, the South African rugby player is born
… 1991.[i] He is a professional South African rugby player, and usually is positioned as a flanker or number 8. He first … Bishop Diocesans.[ii] Nizaam played…
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
… who passed on earlier today, 28 March 2017. Members and supporters of the ANC, the Alliance, MDM formations and South Africans at large, are invited to sign…
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… 1990. At this commemorative occasion South Africans sang and danced while some waved the South African flag in honour of the former president. Flowers and…
EventThe Association of Chambers of Commerce issued a “no work, no pay, no penalty” statement
… statement was released after the United Democratic Front and National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) gathered to … on June 16, in commemoration of the…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name is Xhosa and means 'weaned calves'. Some sources link the name to a … Museum, formerly the 'Kaffrarian Museum' is…
ArchivePromise of hope
… -- the right to sell their labour in the best market and to live with their families at their places of work, a … wealth they have helped to create in 'white…
PlaceWelcome Cottage, Glencairn- Simonstown
… of a loan farm granted to Johannes Henricus Brand in 1911 and, over the years, has been closely associated with the … Johannes was elected President of the…
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
… early areas of land about which the early town developed and its boundaries probably began to be defined in 1679 when … as the Groote Kerk , was erected on…
EventMandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique
… regular visits on official, ministerial, presidential and parliamentary level, the Maputo Development Corridor and a Joint Water Commission. …
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes. The word Qwaqwa hails … of the Free State Province. All the…
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… style. Stern gained master status in her chosen still life and portrait genres. However, her paintings often garnered … in her depiction of Black people…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… literary award from the South African Academy for Science and Art. Since then widely anthologized selections from her … prescribed reading lists in the…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg . … later residents were loaded on to trucks with…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… he held talks with leaders of the North Sotho, Tsonga and Venda homelands. During the meetings the importance of … Ciskei, Qwaqwa, KaNgwane, Kwandebele,…
EventInsulin is first introduced to the American public
… Banting in 1921. Banting was working with J.J.R. Macleod and Charles Best in the University of Toronto in Canada. Both Banting and Macleod were awarded the…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… banishment in June 1961 Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki secretly met and discussed the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the … O’Malley P…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… to continue Soviet support for political formations and states opposing South Africa. States supported by the Soviet Union included Angola, Mozambique, and…
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
… the windows were bulletproof. Thobela reversed his car and sped off with the hijackers in close pursuit. They fired … times during the high speed chase…
EventLesotho unable to impose sanctions against SA
… for all neighbouring countries to isolate South Africa and also calling that the arms embargo against the country … by all. Being completely surrounded by…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… search archive Two years after the formation of Poqo and a year after the formation of Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK), … liberation armies of the Pan Africanist…