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EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… the time. Dawie defined Apartheid to mean “apartness,” and in the case of South Africa, the implicit emphasis was on the … ethnic groups. Afterwards the term…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… man of great piety and culture who was exiled to the Cape in 1693 by the Dutch administration of the East Indies . He … and his tomb is considered to be the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… Revolutions are Not Abnormal, Michael Harmel. Revolution in South Africa, Edward Roux. Satyagrapha in South Africa, Fatima Meer. The Abduction of a Community…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… The building was opened in 1862 and in its time was the first teaching hospital in South Africa. It was declared a National Monument under …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that … is one of the last four remaining historical manor houses in this part of…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a resolution calling for sanctions … to December 1958 when the All African…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… milestone, as the Old Arts Building was declared a museum in June 1982. The foundation stone for this iconic landmark … the building was officially opened…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… turn of the 20th Century. It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 … Heritage Trail links 51 places of…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… between White people and people of other race groups in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the … as members of one of four racial groups as…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. … Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter and Albertina Sisulu. In…
EventThe SABS is established
… The South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) was established in terms of Act 24 of 1945. The Act was revised on several … occasions and is currently effective…
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… On this day in history, and international conference was held to … Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State (1933)" was put…
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) family issued a statement in which apartheid in church and politics was categorically rejected on … reinforced the changed…
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… persons deemed to be threatening public order, would apply in the Transvaal Province with immediate effect for one year. The government amended the Internal…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… research group (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on Apollo XI's Eagle landing craft and…
EventNational Party wins general election
… Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in office six…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… decision to repeal it and the corresponding legislation in the four nominally independent Bantustans, Transkei, … and the South African Defence Force (SADF)…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… Congress (ANC) members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was a driver detonated outside an ANC transit house in Bulawayo. This was a South African…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… of all charges relating to the murder of thirteen people in KwaMakutha in 1987. The case centred on allegations that the former … the TRC was still likely to…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… Prize and several other accolades, and whose gallantry in the face of adversity and commitment to freedom is … arrest, trial and incarceration on Robben…
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… territory. By March 1878 drums of war were beating again in Sekhukhuneland. Captain Clarke who was sent to subdue … on October 6,1878. Sekhukhune was…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… While inhabiting the area near present day Estcourt in the Drakensberg foothills, Langalibalele- a hereditary … the colony, but three of the colonial troops…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… Speke and James Grant, on their return from an expedition in Africa announced that Lake Victoria is the source of the … earlier findings. Speke’s first…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity to the Cape Town International airport. … It emerged the bloody fights that…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out on a … other explorers’ accounts. He was…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… international acclaim. Motswai was born on 27 May 1963, in Soweto, South of Johannesburg. Although he was born deaf, … things such as travelling on buses,…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… League Of Nations. Africans South West Africa no share in government therefore take no part in incorporation Negotiations. South Africa itself denies ……
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… by King Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist European … the rule of Leopold range from 5 million to…
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… mental condition. The case was heard at the Supreme Court in Pretoria before Justice Rumpff, Judge-President of the … Dr. H. F. Verwoerd at the Milner Park…
ArchiveDetention Dairy by Michael Hathorn (an extract)
… prison diary and notes from his 3 month detention in Durban in 1960 …