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Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… say an attachment letter will be delivered by the sheriff of the court to Luthuli House tomorrow, an action that is set … Agency boss with Arthur Fraser, who…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's ……
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… Due to the almost total absence of water, there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and…
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… campaigner Helen Suzman who has died at the age of 91. As a Member of Parliament and a vocal critic against apartheid, the ANC remembers and respects the…
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his…
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Hundreds of Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town … a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of the ANC Women's League and later…
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… a political activist, journalist, lawyer and a co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC). His funeral service was conducted by the bishop of…
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, former president of the SA Rugby Football Union and politician, was born in … He ventured into politics after he was…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), … differences between the two, Msimang…
EventBilateral talks to continue
… was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the continuation of talks toward a…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… Minister of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August … equal status be given to all participants in the process of drawing up the new…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… benefited from the floor-crossing rule that allows members of parties at all three levels of government to join a party of their choice without losing their…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… self-government status by Britain, according to the terms of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, signed between representatives of the two Boer Republics and…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War in an…
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… reflects sustainability includes not only the repurposing of refuse to create fashionable garments, innovative … sculptures and decorative arts, but also the…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Museum illustrate the changes brought about because of the Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand and include a Reconstructed 19th … and 1930s Lounge Setting…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… he volunteered for service with the Native Military Corps of the Union Defence Force. While still working at the factory, he became familiar with the use of…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… the SAP and SADF in 1966, hardly a month after the verdict of the World Court, which South Africa won on a technical … former decision and ruled that South…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, a turning point in the history of southern Africa, the stalemate condition led all parties … positions. South Africa and Cuba…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… home and joined the Loreto sisters, an Irish community of nuns, working in India. After teaching at St. Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the Zimbabwean people in the …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… had been decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name of the newspaper, De Burger ("The Citizen"), was decided on. … the newspaper was first published…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… dire conditions prevailing in the camps to the attention of the British parliament, resulting in the appointment of a Ladies' Commission (Fawset Commission)…
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… After the abolition of the triumvirate, consisting of Vice-President Paul Kruger, Commander-General Piet Joubert … and W.M. Pretorius, Paul Kruger was…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… the convoy along its length, firing from both sides of the road. Two events of the same nature, before this one, happened on the same … road where 330 people…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg. After his first solo exhibition in 1945 he … African to be awarded a travel grant from…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled the … they hid his mutilated body in a nearby…
PlaceAndries Pretorius Monument , Graaf Reniet
… a Monument 2,5 km North of Graaf-Reinet. It was erected in honour of the Voortrekker leader General Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus … forces defeated the Zulu's…
Meeting today
… Black strip at top with title in white lettering. "State of Emergency" in red letters down sides of poster. Black and white image of soldier in centre with…