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EventThe Transkei Constitution Act is enacted
The enactment of the Transkei Constitution Act (No 48 of 1963), which came into effect on 30 May 1963, gave partial self-government to the Transkei within the…
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
World Tuberculosis day commemorates the day that Dr Robert Koch astonished the world by announcing that he had discovered the cause of Tuberculosis. Around the…
Emissaries from Russia
1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hassim Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The…
Document 46 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International left Opposition to Johannesburg comrades, 23 October 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 46 - Letter from the International Secretariat…
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
In 1821, the British Government took control of the British trading forts. In 1844, Fanti chiefs on the Gold Coast (as Ghana was then known) signed an…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November 1945. South Africa was one of the original 51 founding members of the UN from its…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
In a strongly worded statement, the African National Congress rejected the constitutional proposals by the National Party calling it a 'recipe for disaster'…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
Vanessa Brereton worked as a human rights lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile cases under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress …
EventNizaam Carr, the South African rugby player is born
Nizaam Carr was born in Cape Town on 4 April 1991.[i] He is a professional South African rugby player, and usually is positioned as a flanker or number 8. He…
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
The African National Congress mourns the passing of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe, Comrade Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada who passed on earlier today, 28 March 2017. …
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
On 6 December 2013, Capetonians paid tribute to Nelson Mandela a day after he had passed away. The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the…
EventThe Association of Chambers of Commerce issued a “no work, no pay, no penalty” statement
On 5 June 1986, The Association of Chambers of Commerce released a statement of ‘no work, no pay’ to workers who stayed away from work on June 16. The…
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The name is…
PlaceWelcome Cottage, Glencairn- Simonstown
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 25 July 1969. Welcome Cottage, Glencairn, Simonstown. This property originally formed part of…
EventMandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique
After the 1994 national elections, President Nelson Mandela paid his first official state visit to neighbouring country Mozambique. During his trip Mandela met…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes…
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
South African prolific painter Irma Stern was born in 1894. She studied art in Germany where she was influenced by Pechstein’s expressionist style. Stern…
EventKenyan runner, Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes
Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki surprised the world when he became the first man to run 10 000 Meters in less than 27 minutes. Ondieki was taking part in the…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
The Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 empowered the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster completed a tour of self governing territories in the Northern Transvaal during which he held talks with leaders of…
EventInsulin is first introduced to the American public
Insulin was discovered by Frederick G. Banting in 1921. Banting was working with J.J.R. Macleod and Charles Best in the University of Toronto in Canada. Both…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
African National Congress (ANC) leader, Walter Sisulu was arrested on a charge that he did not own a reference book. Subsequently Sisuslu was confined to his…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
France confirmed the sale of two new combat submarines to South Africa to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval activity…
EventBoxing legend, Dingaan Thobela thwarts a hijacking at his home in Johannesburg
On 27 September 2006, Boxing legend Dingaan Thobela 'The Rose of Soweto' arrived home only to be greeted by hijackers as he was about to enter his Kelvin home…
EventLesotho unable to impose sanctions against SA
The leader of the Basutoland National Party, Chief Leabua Jonathan, indicated that Basutoland (Lesotho) was so economically dependent on South Africa that the…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
Location: back to this day in history search archive Two years after the formation of Poqo and a year after the formation of Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK),…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
The then African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Walter Sisulu, was served with two notifications in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act…
EventXhosa author Samuel Mqhayi dies
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet, prose writer and educator, died at Ntab'ozuko, near King William's Town, Transkei. His first collection of poems,…