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EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… 1999.[i] The Phakisa Freeway was constructed by means of combining the traditional oval and road course.[ii] The racecourse hosted the penultimate leg of the…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort is at the source of a mineral and sulphur-rich hot Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the…
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from the end of November until the beginning of April. Every Sunday, families and groups of friends flock to the gardens…
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… recommended putting up a few beacons on the coast East of Port Alfred. And a beacon was finally erected on a hilltop just west of the present lighthouse at M…
PlaceVenda
… for the bantustan, or homeland , was in the North East of South Africa close to the Zimbabwe border. Its North … Its capital was Thohoyandou and it was the…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built by JJ Kirkness and was …
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… an integral and restorative component in the advent of democracy in South Africa. Its role was primarily to … the Apartheid era, through public hearings. The…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… Kgosi (King) Khama III known as Khama the Good, ruler of the Bangwanto people. Subsequent to his father’s death … Botswana (then known as Bechuanaland) and…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (Act 28 of 1946) was introduced on 15 March 1946 and passed in June … on land ownership, Indians were…
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… roll. At a meeting in Gleemoor Town Hall, the Chairman of the association representing the Indian group area of Rylands, Athlone only known as E. Moosa said;…
EventThe British successfully thwart the Zulu attack at Rorke’s Drift
… During the Anglo-Zulu war Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces, took over the buildings of the Swedish Mission at Rorke's Drift, near Isandlwana …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… The Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more fertile land … law created reserves…
WhatsYourHeritage
… This event is an initiative of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Solution Space and the Bertha Centre for Social …
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for … culture’ in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… in South Africa. It shares the day with the anniversary of the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred in 1960. This gross violation of human life…
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, president of ZANU since 1977, became the prime minister. Joshua Nkomo … in the new 100-seat parliament…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen of the more than seventy-five…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… outside parliament while leading a protest march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. … and…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the … as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial … African Aerial Transports Ltd company, under the…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born…
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial … elections. The elections…
EventEgyptian author, and trade unionist, Gamal al-Banna is born
… Though he was the younger brother of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal al-Banna was a liberal scholar and a critic of the Muslim…
Clarion Call
… Clarion Call was published as the official journal of the KwaZulu Government, as a record of their activities, and as a mouthpiece of the Inkatha Institute…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… concerned with Alexandra, since that was the home location of Ditshwantsho, it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in the general…
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of politics including the elements of…
EventSamuel Marks (77) dies in Johannesburg
… Sammy Marks was a diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and Senator in the Parliament of the Union of South…