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EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. The area was inhabited predominantly by Afrikaans speaking people. In 1964 it was granted its…
EventCommuters cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germiston Station
… The commuters were travelling from Katlehong to Germiston in a train when they set it alight. The train had earlier … started the fire. Setting trains on…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… In 1935, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University … to compile the Revised English Version only began in the 1940’s. A team of experts was organized…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
… as South Africa's official Olympic representative body in place of the 'white' South African Sports Association … Africa from the Olympic Games. The…
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… of Trade Unions (SACTU) was held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg. SACTU was until the banning of political organisations in 1961 the leading non-racial…
EventBar argues against the Suppression of Communism Bill
… of Communism Bill was passed, the freedom of people in South Africa would be in jeopardy. The Bar made this point with reference to a speech in parliament by…
EventThe Joint Declaration of Cooperation ("Three Doctors’ Pact") is signed
… president of the Transvaal Indian Congress. This was done in the recognition that all 'non-Europeans' should unite in the struggle against the National Party…
EventPAC attends Patriotic Front Conference
… including Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) in a Patriotic Front Conference held in Durban. The PAC initially demanded that deliberations be…
EventLegal action against election results
… The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null and void and for polling to…
EventThe National Party wins Western Cape local elections
… The defunct National Party registered a convincing victory in all three district councils during local government elections held in Western Cape Province…
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… published. Mgqwetho was the first woman poet to publish in Xhosa. From 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than ninety … life, she supposedly came from the…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946 he accepted…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… for better housing for Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in Georgedale, today part of Cato Ridge. Mpanza was the only … on both sides of the law: first as a…
EventTwenty Black students are admitted to the Pretoria University
… Transvaal University College. The branch was established in 1908 and has since developed into a fully functional world … first twenty black students. It has…
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He is the central point in the alliance, in a fashion. So when he says that the expulsion of Numsa is … bad for the ANC, for…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… The Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Oral History Association of South … (OHASA) hosts the 10th Oral Annual History conference in South…
EventA Pretoria biker is caught doing 284km/h on his Suzuki motorcycle on the R59
… at a speed of 284km/h on the R59 south near Kliprivier in Ekurhuleni. The biker’s excuse for travelling at such … offender had ever been caught travelling at…
EventDigging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand
… Digging for gold in the Witwatersrand (now city of Johannesburg and surroundings) was authorised in September 1886 and further accelerated the influx of ……
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… Ben Okri is a Nigerian author born in Minna, Western Nigeria. He received critical acclaim after … His third novel, The Famished Road, was published in 1991…
EventPope John Paul II begins his tour of Africa.
… John Paul II who was pope of from 1978 until his death in 2005 toured Africa in 1980. The pope spent eleven days and toured five … with the Masai of Kenya…
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
… Around the world on 24 March each year, people partake in activities that they anticipate will raise awareness about … Group of States (ACP countries) can…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… various labour unions, was established on 2 December 1985 in Durban. It is among the fastest growing labour federations in the world. At its launch it…
Press Statement concerning the Five-Year Plan presented by F.W. De Klerk to the National Party Conference by O. R. Tambo, 30 June 1989
… rights will continue to be defined on the basis of race. In other words apartheid, in its essentials, will be retained. Legislative power based … to prevent…
Press Statement by Oliver Tambo concerning the five-year plan presented by FW De Klerk to the National Party Conference, 30 June 1989
… rights will continue to be defined on the basis of race. In other words apartheid, in its essentials, will be retained. Legislative power based … to prevent…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE NATIONAL MEN’S MARCH Pretoria, 22 November 1997
… day. I feel honoured to join with South African men in giving this bold message to our fellow men, and to the … pain that citizens of a free country should…
On trial for treason
… next month after that protest of the women to the mayor in Port Elizabeth, the same year, 1956, a whole lot of us … treason. They came to arrest us; it was…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… In a calm morning in March 1968, a shipment carrying the latest Korgs, Moogs … set off from Baltimore harbour, heading for an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… had long been urging closer co-operation with Africans. In 1943, a conference of the South African Indian Congress … Transvaal Indian Congress. A joint…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… and solidarity with United Arab Republic and Arab people in their firm stand and struggle to resist Anglo-American … Machinations to recolonise Arab States…
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…