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EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil-producing African nations. The opening of this pipeline raised hopes…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… In July 1825, King Shaka , son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with…
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… Ronnie Kasrils was born in the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville. The Sharpeville massacre and its aftermath drew … executing tasks entrusted to him by the…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as part of the Government's plan to further its programme of Apartheid by excluding the majority of Black…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … the precursor to the Inkatha Freedom…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force of 'Ontevrede Afrikaners' (Dissatisfied Afrikaners) resulted in the formation of the Democratic Party…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… Magistrate Starrenburg arrested Adam Tas because of the role he played in drawing up a petition for the Cape … was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, the…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort … in New York, Molefe accepted an…
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… the majority, set out to kill, rape and loot properties of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… patnership with The UCT Drama Department, The UCT College of Music and The Michaelis School of Fine Arts and Jazzart Dance Theatre, will be working with…
PlacePhiladelphia
… Not the Philadelphia one attributes to the Eastern parts of North America, this Philadelphia lies but 20 minutes outside of Cape Town, past Durbanville. …
PlaceQuaqua
… Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe . It was only 655 square kilometres big and … in 1980 and more than a…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … this Christian king and patriarch. There is also a replica of…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… abroad, Albertina Sisulu was accompanied by her Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) comrades, Sister Bernard … apartheid government. The apartheid…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… As many as 80,000 protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo…
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a … Wheat Grinding; Muzzle Loading and even…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who … detainees during the Apartheid…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… [Addis Ababa - "Each time one of us dies, thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not in vain". A few hours after the hanging of…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were … structure was converted to a horse mill…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published … time I land at Durban Airport, I am…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we are … and he worked at the zoo and…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from John Daniel, President of NUSAS, suggesting ways of commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Universal…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a member of his Cabinet, was aware of activities…
Free Mandela
… Yellow, red, green, black and white poster. Artwork of face of Nelson Mandela. Artwork of map of Africa. Artwork of people protesting. Issued by the …
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… to enter the police’s witness protection programme instead of the one run by the National Prosecuting Authority, after … testified in court, she was startled…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… by Thibault. The gable is generally considered to be one of the earliest usages in the Cape of a rectangular pediment. The cost of building this house must…