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PlaceOnverwacht
… Onverwacht was established as an enclave of the Qwaqwa Bantustan on the border of the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from Bloemfontein. The…
Statement congratulating Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on winning the Hopman Cup, 8 January 2000
… stars Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on their winning of the Hopman Cup. The two are thoroughly deserving of this prestigious accolade. Their win is…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the first public statement on the report of the Penal…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former … Nations. South Africa's involvement in the murky world of arms dealing began long…
EventThe first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State is founded
… Reverend Daniel Lindley instituted the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes this day the founding day of the…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. … him as a policeman …
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, was born in Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern … suicide, the house she named "The Owl…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, when … to South Africa in 1912, she was…
EventThe Stellenbosch Gymnasium is founded
… The Stellenbosch Gymnasium, forerunner of the University of Stellenbosch, was opened with ceremony in a large house in Dorp Street. This was achieved on…
EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… Du Toit studied both mining engineering and geology. One of his most famous projects was his study of the Karoo and its dolerite intrusions, of which he…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… Post constantly clashed with the government, from the time of President Kenneth Kaunda up until President Rupiah Banda’s … times for his reporting. M’membe…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays … acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of…
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… Muntu Myeza was Secretary General of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), an affiliate of the Black Consciousness Movement. At the age of 22 , he…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… were two prisoners on Robben Island who had been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support in the fight against the terrible…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had proposed inclusion of a constitutional principle on self-determination, to include provisions for a notion of a…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This … von Wurmb and Johan Gottlieb Leipoldt (grandfather…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… This is a dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Constitutes a Cultural Landscape Communally … property sustains the semi-nomadic…
PlaceGordonia Division
… Named after Sir Gordon Sprigg, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony four times between 1878 and 1902. It was … largest magisterial district in South…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… in 1896, and is the largest and best remaining example of the Company's architecture in Pretoria. It was declared a … a result became vandalized. Situated on…
PlaceDolobran, Parktown, Johannesburg
… was built in 1906 for Sir Charles Llewellyn Andersson, son of the famous explorer Carl Andersson. Andersson had amassed … The mansion was towered and…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Cape government officials, traditional leaders and friends of the Khomani San. Traditional leaders at the funeral were … by governments' intervention. Paul…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano Ellen Winter, Dalberg was trained at the Guildhall School…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political…
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… South African associate, Barclays National Bank Limited of South Africa (also known as Barnat). Sir Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays, admitted that while…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… Pope John Paul II appointed 31 new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal … the Sudanese Gabriel Zubeir Wako. However,…