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PlaceTable Bay
… Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the … first European to explore the region in 1486. The region of the…
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… building where Cecil John Rhodes held up during the Siege of Kimberley from 1899 – 1900 . The fist curator of the museum was Ms Maria Wilman and in the forty…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of educational institutes throughout the…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… a report published by The Star on this date , the report of the Motsuenyane Commission, published the previous day, confirmed the findings of the previously…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… At least eighteen people were killed on the day of the funeral of Sam Ntuli, an African National Congress (ANC) member … During the funeral service, attended…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… at Orlando stadium in Soweto after an absence of thirty years from the political arena in South Africa. The Youth League was effected through the…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), … De Klerk said in March 1990 that he had…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment … be no agreement reached in Nedlac on the implementation of the…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk knew of illegal operations by the security forces against Black ……
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… which broke out on 9 October, 1899. The Burghers were part of the war as they would sometimes pass messages from one place to another, serving as a vital…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with … vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was in a dire state … vulnerable. There were major food scarcities and the cost of living…
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… In preparation of the FIFA World Cup of 2010 , South Africa had to upgrade and build a variety of Stadiums, and as a result, some of the most impressive ……
EventLibya becomes independent
… achieve autonomy through the United Nations (UN) and one of the first former European possessions in Africa to gain independence. At the time of independence…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Journalist, anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, … Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… Empire-builder and former prime minister of the Cape Colony , Cecil John Rhodes , was buried in the … already ill on his return to Cape Town in the early…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… National Congress (ANC). This came after the suppression of political and cultural renewal by the ANC and the banishment of nine members of the ANC at Dakawa…
Nelson Mandela Regrets, Nostalgia and Dreams:
… letters reflect the volumes that remain unsaid because of the censorship rules that prescribe and proscribe the thoughts of a prisoner. The one thing that he…
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936-73
… Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the University of Cape Town. The study focusses …
EventJakes Gerwel is born
… academic and politician, was born in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Cape. He has occupied various … and served inter alia as rector and vice…
EventThe NCCR is dissolved
… The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) was dissolved due to fraud and corruption amounting to substantial…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 and…
EventThe seven day war in Kwazulu-Natal starts
… The first of more than 100 people were killed near Pietermaritzburg. … Political conflict in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa caused the death of…
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… On 4 February 1997, the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa came into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most…
EventIFP commemorates Shell House shootings.
… Thousands of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell House shootings…
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
… in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg district. Nakene became one of the first Black student to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the organisations of the alliance that Gwede Mantashe possesses. He’s been Chair of the…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted … set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … kingdom, no smoke, no industrial filth scars the…