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PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
… Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a length of 0.02 kilometres. This…
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of Gandhi from a lawyer-servant of the Indian community to a…
PlaceGold Reef City
… Gold Reef City is a re-creation of turn-of-the-century Johannesburg, which was flooded by prospectors after the discovery of gold in 1886. With its Victorian…
EventSenator Robert Kennedy visits SA
… In June 1966, during the darkest years of Apartheid, United States (US) Senator Robert Kennedy made … to South Africa. He was invited by the National Union…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, passed away following … was also a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Sifiso Nkabinde, former Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the…
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… Mary Eveline Fincken , also known as choirmaster, teacher of singing and educationist was born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, … South Africa in 1908 for health…
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… Felix Mounie was the leader of the political movement Union du Peuple Camerounnais (UPC). … The UPC was a major political force demanding the end of UN…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in … became known as Swede Wessels when…
PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… in Rustenburg, which is a charming Town at the foot of the Magaliesberg Mountain Range in the North West … Cup, hosted by South Africa. This stadium hosts a…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… global empire in 1941 becoming named on the Forbes list of 500 wealthiest families worldwide. At the time of his death his assets were estimated at $1.7…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto studied to be a … him with his subject matter, and he…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… As part of the African National Congress (ANC) drive towards the one … and Campaigns Chairperson Fikile Mbalula and members of the ANC NEC sub-committee on…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… failure which today (27 July 2009) plunged most floors of Chief Albert Luthuli House - African National Congress headquarters – into darkness, and a threat…
PlaceOrkney, North West Province
… for, its gold mining opportunities, and lies on the banks of the Vaal River . Although a relatively quiet Town … just about 180 kilometres from the bustling…
Grassroots
… Grassroots was started in 1980 as the first of a series of community newspapers designed to give a voice to the 'voiceless' and oppressed peoples of South…
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… 1958. The agreement was signed by presidents Quwwatli of Syria and Nasser of Egypt, after a public referendum in both countries. These two countries adopted…
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… Mbekweni, Paarl, met and resolved to attack the White town of Paarl. Over 200 men armed with axes, pangas, sticks, … police patrol vans. Three were shot dead…
EventThe Korean War ends
… The undeclared Korean War ended after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists … Korean and American). The war started when armed…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… campaigns in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the rank of officer in 1961 just before Uganda…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… Apartheid government attempted to negotiate the release of Mandela before, but always with conditions. As de Klerk's … banned in 1960. ″It was only then,…
EventSevered human leg drops off SAA plane
… John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Pam Hearne, the owner of the house on which the leg fell, said she heard something hitting the top of the garage roof…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… to bomb ANC offices in London in 1982 with the knowledge of Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange. This was in retaliation for the 1981 bombing of the…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… soccer player who later became a coach. He spent most of his soccer career playing midfield for Cosmos, though he … teams like FC Zurich and FC Baden. He was…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… known as the Johannesburg Art Foundation. The core idea of a school was of a network of people, artists, writers and benefactors coming together …
PlaceAliwal Shoal, a Rocky Reef Off; Kwa-Zulu Natal Coast Coast
… The Aliwal Shoal is a rocky Reef which is the remains of an ancient sand dune, approximately 5 kilometres off the Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The…
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Reactor Installation-1) at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the production of nuclear energy on a…
EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in … to Tanzania. He returned with the Tanzanian-aided…