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EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act no 19, a version of an earlier act that required that all newspapers be registered and conform to a strict code of…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… beginning in 1969. In 1971 and 1972, through the support of the NSA and the Italian Consulate in Durban, he attended … collections including the Durban Art…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three … Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, the murder of…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… On 6 January 1978, Donald James Woods, editor of the banned Daily Dispatch a newspaper based in East London … for revealing Security Police brutality. After…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based in … anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of South African…
EventStudents at Durban
… During ongoing unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a … Congress (SANSCO) based, students staged a boycott of…
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… in this war that started shortly after the emergence of the UDF as a front for the African National Congress. The IFP saw the emergences of the popular UDF…
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… the first time in U.S. history. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the Bush administration declared a 'war on terrorism', with the stated goals of…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… (ANC) led government. Botha, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa in 1978 and later its President from 1984-89, … issued after a private…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the enormous … the deepest man-made excavations to date…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… in Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance in…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… formed, with Sir John Robinson as Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Colonial Secretary. Robinson, who is … leader, and was joint founder and the…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… Gariep Dam is located in South Africa, near the Town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape … Bethulie Bridge, was established on the Cape…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… telegraph office which, together with Komgha and a number of other establishments in the Transkeian Territories, was … as soon as Offices at Fort Cunynghame…
EventBritain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty
… Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand with three columns of British troops, starting the war that ended Zulu independence. After the initial crushing defeat of…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be safe from the political violence of…
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… family on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein. She was one of five children. Budd was especially close to her older … and they would often run together. In 1984,at…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2 April 1987. Kuzwayo was born into a … to force the Apartheid government…
EventNo time to wash at The VOC Slave Lodge
… private secretary to the Governor, wrote a letter to Cape of Good Hope, about the conditions of enslaved people at the VOC Company Slave Lodge in Cape … to …
PlacePrince Edward Islands
… The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island Group consists of; Marion Island (19km long 12 km wide) and Prince Edward … wide). These islands are approximately…
PlaceCottages 60 and 62 Simonstown Road, Fish Hoek
… Both 60 and 62 originally formed part of the farm owned by K.S. de Villiers, known as the land baron of the area. He died in 1916 and the property was soon ……
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first landing place …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… This unique sanctuary is the residence of more than 170 different species and provides a protective … roosting place and breeding ground for thousands of…
PlaceFeathermarket Hall, Port Elizabeth
… Elizabeth's Feather Market Centre is located on the corner of Baakens Street and Military Road, Central and, as its name implies, was an extension of the…
PlaceBritish Fort, Marabastad, Polokwane
… This English fort or earthworks is situated just east of the national road at Marabastad, a few kilometres south of Polokwane, on the farm Sand River. The…
EventKenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail
… Kenyan political activist and President of Kenya Afican National Union, Jomo Kenyatta was released … was this rebellion that paved the way for the…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity (now AU), Non-Align Movement, and … Court commuted James Mange's death sentence on a charge…
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… The Coloured schools' boycott began as a result of students' dissatisfaction with the South African … schools, teacher training facilities and the University…
Educationist Martha Helena Cillié dies
… greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls and to teacher training over a period of more than thirty years, died in Somerset West…
EventJapan lifts economic sanctions against SA
… lifts economic sanctions, including bans on the import of gold coins and steel, as well as direct investment loans. Japan's stated position is that it has…