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PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… (So if you’re visiting on a Friday make sure you get there in time to watch a bread baking demonstration in the old working Victorian kitchen – you might…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… This address delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the … to the problem of crime-prevention and…
PlaceSmuts Hall, University of Cape Town
… hall was Mark Shuttleworth, who was also the first African in space. "The first thing that you will notice about the rooms in Smuts Hall is that they are…
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the PFP and as a MP. In his dramatic announcement he stated that he came to the … a book, The Last White Parliament, after…
PlaceMandela House
… The Mandela House Museum in Soweto is housed in what was once the home of Nelson Mandela , the World's … wife, Evelyn , and later with his second wife,…
EventMpho Gift Leremi, Mamelodi Sundowns soccer player, dies
… Sundowns FC midfielder, Mpho Gift Leremi died in a car accident on 03 September 2007 after losing control of his car in Brackensdowns, next to Alberton. He…
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… plunge beat the record of 313m, set by Mark Ellyatt in Thailand in 2003. His target was a depth of 320, but he only managed … descend and slow return to…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… South Africa. Tanganyika became one of the first countries in Africa to impose sanctions on South Africa. The majority of countries in the western bloc and…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… returned to South Africa from his long leave spent in England. Reeves was not welcomed back by the South African government, because he believed in the…
EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… On 11 March 1960, for the first time in the history of South Africa, the Republican Referendum … to vote either "Yes" or "No" to the question; "Are you in…
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… 1978 Desmond Tutu served as Bishop of the Anglican Church in Lesotho and as Secretary-General of the South African … the Nobel Peace Prize award for his…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former Rwandan Army came seven years … Africa by the United Nations. South Africa's…
EventStudents support the appointment of Archie Mafeje
… at the University of Cape Town (UCT) embarked on a "sit in" to protest against government intervention that forced … of Archie Mafeje (a Black academic) as…
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… On this date the nuclear reactor Safari, located in Pelindaba, near Pretoria, went critical and South Africa … after World War II when uranium deposits were…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Born Nomzamo Winfreda Zanyiwe Madikizela in the Eastern Cape, President Mandela’s former wife and … her post as Member of Parliament. She was re-elected in…
EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… Three people died and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo's Bar on the Durban beach. An ANC's arm wing, … we Sizwe (MK) cell, led by Robert…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… business enterprises, Oppenheimer played a crucial role in politics and openly opposed apartheid. In 1998, commenting on apartheid he said: "Disagreeable ……
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in 1995. Former President Nelson Mandela dismissed her … of financial mismanagement and her improper…
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… by Bantu Holomisa, but stated that he has told no-one else in the African National Congress (ANC) about the donation. … ANC's Disciplinary Committee ousted…
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… William Philip Screhreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2 (South … Republiek (ZAR) or South African Republic (Transvaal)…
EventBram Fischer born today
… Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 April 1908. This … Party of South African (CPSA), openly…
EventKabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC
… was the country's first democratically elected president in over forty years. President Thabo Mbeki, who played a major role in the peaceful solution of the…
EventThe Republic of Goshen is founded
… The Republic of Goshen with its capital in Lichtenburg is founded by a group of Afrikaner farmers on … of the Barolong boo Ratlou, as reward for the Boer…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… newspaper, Zambia Post. As the only independent newspaper in Zambia, Zambia Post constantly clashed with the … Media Institute of Southern Africa's Press…
EventAlan Charles Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian is born
… and editor of The Guardian newspaper. He was born in Northern Rodesia (Now Zambia) to English parents. The … was five years old. He later studied literature…
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… of Mandela’s movements by an American CIA agent based in Durban. Mandela was tried in Pretoria's Old Synagogue and in November 1962 sentenced to five years'…
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… under President Thabo Mbeki’s administration, was born in B Location, Kroonstad, Orange Free State. He is the son to … researcher and lecturer. He became…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop…
Clarion Call
… negotiated future for South Africa". The youth of KwaZulu, in particular, were called upon to resist violence as a means of protest. Participation in…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… committees as a stepping stone towards unionism. In August 1982, CUSA resolved to form National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a union which is still in…