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EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… The South African government under leadership of Prime Minister John Vorster pledged support for the United States of America's (USA) efforts to bring about…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… . This extraordinary event which pushed the boundaries of science into the dawn of a new medical epoch took place inside Charles Saint Theatre at Groote…
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… "Whale Bay", is situated in Namibia, along the west coast of southern Africa, formerly the German colony of South- West Africa. According to archaeological…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville accidentally drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… Matthews , was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana … a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a…
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… Xhosa war hero and regent of the AmaNgqika (Gaika) Xhosa clan during the youth of Sandile, Maqoma (also spelled Makoma or Macoma), died on … ranging from…
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… by Norman Levy I literally fell into politics at the age of fourteen, a happening that set my life on a path to … triggered the event was a cycle ride round…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… History of India and the British conquest. Artwork of scenes of India. Map of India and of the trade routes. Series of …
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… As we celebrate this day let us do so with high regard of the developments that ushered a new democracy which has been the foundation of the new identity we…
EventEnglish ship “Caesar” with William Pearse on board bound for Bantam arrives
… sick, [blank] in number, to be allowed to be lodged by one of our burghers ... which was politely granted ..." [Journal] "... through the Blessing of the…
PlaceTable Bay
… Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the … first European to explore the region in 1486. The region of the…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… building where Cecil John Rhodes held up during the Siege of Kimberley from 1899 – 1900 . The fist curator of the museum was Ms Maria Wilman and in the forty…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educational institutes throughout the…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , … was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… a report published by The Star on this date , the report of the Motsuenyane Commission, published the previous day, confirmed the findings of the previously…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… At least eighteen people were killed on the day of the funeral of Sam Ntuli, an African National Congress (ANC) member … During the funeral service, attended…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… at Orlando stadium in Soweto after an absence of thirty years from the political arena in South Africa. The Youth League was effected through the…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), … De Klerk said in March 1990 that he had…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment … be no agreement reached in Nedlac on the implementation of the…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk knew of illegal operations by the security forces against Black ……
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… which broke out on 9 October, 1899. The Burghers were part of the war as they would sometimes pass messages from one place to another, serving as a vital…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school boycotts … 1980, before spreadingacross the country. The…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted … set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with … vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was in a dire state … vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… In preparation of the FIFA World Cup of 2010 , South Africa had to upgrade and build a variety of Stadiums, and as a result, some of the most impressive ……
EventLibya becomes independent
… achieve autonomy through the United Nations (UN) and one of the first former European possessions in Africa to gain independence. At the time of independence…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Journalist, anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, … Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… Empire-builder and former prime minister of the Cape Colony , Cecil John Rhodes , was buried in the … already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… National Congress (ANC). This came after the suppression of political and cultural renewal by the ANC and the banishment of nine members of the ANC at Dakawa…