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EventSamuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon
… the 90 kilometers between the cities of Pietermaritzburg and Durban. The first comrades took place in 1921, with only … 1991. He however, returned to the…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black Community Programmes (BCP). Out of the banning … Black Consciousness philosophy…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… this was upheld. However, police used force on the crowd and arrested hundreds. When asked about their main … More than two hundred Africans were brought…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… unusual way of bowling that people found to be strange and rather funny. It was this bowling style that made it hard … in cricket initially. It was only when…
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… a three-piece suit, standing with his left hand raised and pointing North. The Monument is located in the Company’s … consensus as to where the Statue should…
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… has a certain following among the old Trade Union members, and as you will see the Party is somewhat in the position of … met in our hall who called…
ArchiveKwaZakele - the politics of transition in South Africa: an Eastern Cape study
… study methodology. The nature of political participation and the form of democracy to emerge at the end of the … of South Africa. The study covers the period…
PlaceBrackenfell, Cape Town
… sold the property to the- 'Brackenfell Estate Granite and Brick Company', who then developed it as a granite … curtain that basically divides the city's…
PlaceConcordia
… by Generals J.C. Smuts, Maritzand Bouwer reached Concordia and, on an impulse, sent a message under a flag of truce, … the surrender of its garrison. Much to…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… succeed Nelson Mandela’s successor as President of the ANC and of the Republic of South Africa.This meeting was the first ever between the Congress and the…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… Hertfordshire, England. Rhodes was sickly as a teenager and suffered bouts of asthma. His family sent him to Natal, … declaring that the Anglo-Saxon race was…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s. He and former police Captain Dirk Coetzee had worked together to … earphone exploded. He died…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts the beam out of its own … would do if South Africa was to get up in United…
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… from Cator Manor, an area inhabited by both Africans and Indians. Rene de Villiers, the acting editor of the … moving on to become pictures editor for the…
EventChris Hani is born
… Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party … Transkei. He was the sixth of seven…
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… He studied natural sciences at the University of Poitiers and received his license of sciences from the University of … National de la Recherche Scientifique…
EventPretoria receives city status
… Boer Republic of the Orange Free State), the Cape Colony and Natal Colony. Thirty years later, in 1961, when the Union … of South Africa became completely…
EventDavid Kitson released
… campaigns; for furthering the aims of 'communism'; and, for being a member of the High Command of uMkhonto … (MK). He was fifty-nine years old when he was…
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… Commission, which was to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a … government realised that the commission…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… that youths had set up barricades to prevent evictions and that they had also been setting fire to several homes of … the apartheid government. Twelve people…
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… Africa should continue to support Britain's war effort and the results was a clear indication of the growth of … in the Cape Province, sixteen in the Orange…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, writer and composer of the National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica … of Johannesburg invited city officials, archaeologists and…
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Wood (nee Hoole). After … including the African Union of the Bling …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… areas were allocated to White people while Black, Coloured and Indian people were removed to areas outside the urban … the Group Areas Act. Equally the Acts…
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… parties involved could not agree on an interim government and a constitution. The first sitting, CODESA I in March 1992 … in Boipatong on 17 June when more…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… On 8 December 1487, Portuguese explorer and navigator Bartholomew Dias anchored in what is now known … homewards journey that he reached False Bay on 16 May…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… in Florida between a set of eighteenth- century novels and the sea. A morning swim, a day of marginalia, lazy ambles … the flood of it not medical doctor,…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… founded the town of Salisbury (now Harare) in Mashonaland and named the territory Rhodesia in honour of Cecil John … was formed bringing together former…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… in rugby. Furthermore, in 2014, Welile Nkohla and the other living national captains were honoured for … Museum in Cape Town. Welile Nkohla left behind his…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… to land. In later years the colonial frontier expanded and the Zulu’s were forcefully stripped of their land. By … labour came to prominence after the…