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EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Advocate J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during his tenure in 1955 in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, … thousand women on August 9th, 1956…
EventSADF raid Southern Angola
… with upwards of another hundred injured at a forward base in the Cambeno Valley. A significant amount of equipment and … the UN High Commission for Refugees…
EventNew Prime Minister P.W. Botha appoints cabinet ministers
… resignation of B.J. Vorster, P.W. Botha made some changes in the allocation of portfolios in his cabinet. He retained the post of minister of defence. … West…
EventSoweto students begin protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans
… On that date 2 000 Black students had been on strike in Soweto, protesting against the compelled use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction in 50% of subjects…
EventVan Wyk de Vries Commission submits its report to Parliament
… under chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investigate the activities of South Africa's White … was submitted to Parliament. The…
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… SASO meeting at the Federal Theological Seminary in Alice, Eastern Cape. The Declaration resolved that … institutions of higher education through lecture…
EventButhelezi and Mandela meet and call for cease-fire
… On 29 January 1991 a summit meeting was held in Durban between the African National Congress (ANC) and the … Deputy President Nelson Mandela, this was the…
EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
… from the International Rugby Union at a ceremony held in London. Burger became the first player to win both major categories in the International Rugby…
PlaceWagon Museum
… is situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic wagons … of Transport and the making of the…
PlaceJames Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg
… the largest and most comprehensive land-transport Museum in South Africa , was established by the late Jammie Hall and the City of Johannesburg in February…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… The tragic events in Bisho are yet another grim reminder of the profound … loved, cherished and nurtured her or him for many years in the hope of a…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… independent States "on one pretext or another." Speaking in a televised interview on ZTV on Friday, Comrade Tambo said … Zimbabwe required to do? To stop…
SASPU Focus
… to cover educational issues and to encourage debate, in the hope of providing students with a deeper understanding … of their immediate environment - the…
ArchiveCultural considerations for a democratic South African Constitution
… produced by the ANC Department of Arts and Culture from an in-house seminar on Constitutional guidelines for a democratic South Africa, held in Lusaka,…
PlaceNorth Lodge, Parktown, Johannesburg
… building, designed by Herbert J Aldwyncle, was completed in 1906 for for the “Oats King” Henry Wilson. This quaint … of a French castle from the late Gothic…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… lawyer, politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede became the…
EventThe New Republic Party is formed
… Federal Party (PFP) or the ruling National Party (NP). In the elections which were held in the second half of 1977, the New Republic Party secured only 10…
Educationist Martha Helena Cillié dies
… training over a period of more than thirty years, died in Somerset West. While she was headmistress the training of … Girls' High School and La Rochelle…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Boipatong massacre on 17 June 1992, presented his report in which he stated that while there was no evidence of police collusion in the killings, the South…
EventMother of an ANC Youth League official, is killed by a hand grenade
… Sebokeng, Gauteng, was killed when a hand grenade exploded in her house. Mrs Smith was the mother of an African National … Nanki as well as her granddaughter…
EventWinnie and Nelson Mandela divorce
… as the reason for the parting. The Mandelas were married in 1958 and only spent a couple of years together before Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in…
EventKing Dinuzulu dies
… he received a farm to live on, died on his farm Uitkyk in Middelburg district, Transvaal. At his own request he was buried with his ancestors on the Mpembeni…
EventPretoria Boys High School opens
… The Staatsmodelskool (State Model School), started in 1893 by President Paul Kruger in central Pretoria, was refurbished by Lord Alfred Milner … Pretoria…
EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas. The report was based on about 50 statements to lawyers by victims of police action in…
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… elected the new leader of the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. His election came after Dr Andries … the party. At the time the NP was the ruling party…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
… (DBE) and South African History Online (SAHO) which began in 2005. The learners, educators, district and provincial … coordinators and adjudicators…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
… Old name for Algoa Bay was Angra da Roca named in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to … or Santa Cruz island. he named the bay Agra da…
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb is the Oldest in Johannesburg. Bertrams characterises the down-to-earth, … …
PlaceLusikisiki near Port St. John's
… remote and untamed, and time has virtually stood still in a part of the world known as ‘God’s country’ or Pondoland. … little over the years. Lusikisiki is a…
PlaceSao Bento Shipwreck, Coffee Bay
… fore-and-aft triangular lateen sail. This vessel grounded in 1554, on the rocks of the little island where the Msikaba … swambo tried to catch small fish…