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PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill received its third reading. Among its provisions were the abolition of the Senate and the creation of a sixty…
ArchiveSATUCCs Social Charter
… Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Southern Africa 1992. Outline of origin of Charter. Green, red, black and white poster. …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Dam at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini … Settler in the Lowveld and he subsequently became head of the Magwamba Tribe,…
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African … delegations were led by Jay Naidoo …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu supported an economic…
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… for financial gain. She married three times and killed two of her husbands and her son. All the men she married were … two that she allegedly poisoned, left…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as … and his wife Hester, with about 1 000…
ArchiveVerbatim Minutes: Meeting, Cape Town, 7th April 1977
… Minutes of an international meeting with the South African Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassadors of Canada, France, Federal…
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject of History at the University of South Africa. This…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the attention of the wider…
EventLand beyond the Great Berg River is annexed
… The district of Clanwilliam celebrates its second centenary on 1 February 2008. On 1 February 1808 the territory north of the Great Berg River, at the foot…
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…
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
Treasurer General`s PBF Breakfast and Networking, 24 March 2009
… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF … Treasurer General spoke about the Road Ahead and the plans of…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of alternative counts under…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel began a collaboration … many double stars discovered during his…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and … Knowledge Systems Perspective v …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape … and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the Zuid…
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country were the…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety…
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… is a monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India. This is a prominent feature of Hindu temple architecture!)…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… say Milton Apollo Obote) was the 2nd and 4th President of Uganda. He first came to power in 1962 but was ousted by … Idi Amin in the Western media, but Obote…
PlaceAddo Elephant Game Reserve, Port Elizabeth
… This Reserve lies East of the Sunday's River and North of Port Elizabeth . In about 1931, about 680 ha. was enclosed … to form the Addo Elephant National…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa … was to discover that South Africa was worth writing about. Of course she was by…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… where the first church was built would become the centre of the newly established town, Pretoria (1855). The … This church has played an enormous part in…