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PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… status in 1896. Today there is a population of over 12 000 people. In the Eastern Cape and 3.554 million (2019) …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… On 12 January 2019,legendary Bafana Bafana striker Philimon …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… According to reports, the security for Mandela included 12 000 city police officers, 4 super-insulated bomb trucks, …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… The Pass Laws Chapter 11 - The Compound System Chapter 12 - The Wage Colour Bar - A System of Forced Labour Part 3 - …
EventThe HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire sink near Colombo
… Akagi, Soryu, and Hiryu. The HMS Cornwall was sunk within 12 minutes by nine bombs, while its sister ship, the …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… These are among the points outlined by P.W. Botha on 12 March 1968, the then Minister of Defence. History has …
EventNational Party wins general election
The National Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… In the local elections of October 1988, the CP won 12 of 20 council seats. At its’ first meeting, the new …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the Ciskei on 12 August 1988. The people of West Peelton were against the …
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
… On 12 of February 2006, the Progressive Governance Network held …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… socialite, two years ago. The girl was only 12 years old when she carried out the murder. She was also … at: www.iol.co.za [Accessed on 19 September 2013]|…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
Collen Chauke, South Africa's most wanted fugitive, was captured in Nelspruit. He was arrested at a roadblock in Nelspruit near South Africa's border with…
EventJameson Raid starts
Leander Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the Zuid…
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… hours of fighting. Students in Cape Town also marched on 12 August. The University of Cape Town (UCT) provided one …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… Mazisi Kunene was born on 12 May 1930 in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal to a Swazi …
EventKenya is granted independence
… to seven years in prison. When Kenya became a Republic on 12 December 1964, Kenyatta was named Kenya's first president, …
PlaceWarriors Gate: MOTH Museum of Militaria
Warrior's Gate is situated at the Corner of Old Fort Road and Masabalala Yengwa Avenue, in Durban. In addition to its Headquarters function, Warriors Gate is…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… to a notice, residents were supposed to be moved on 12 February 1955, but the government caught them by surprise. …
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… others. They were charged in October 1963 and on 12 June 1964 the Rivonia Trialists were sentenced to life …
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Through the Years 1912-1982’ in Scientaria Militaria, Vol. 12, No. 2, (1982). ↵ …
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… 8% of its geographical area. The municipality comprises 24 wards, which are made up of 66 villages and plots. Most of …
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson's book Born Free, dies in Kenya
… died from Babesia felis, a tick-borne blood disease, on 24 January 1961. Joy documented her experience with Elsa in a …
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Move: Transport Routes, Communication, and History,Berlin, 24-26 September 2003. Page 2. ↵ [vi] Thornton, John. 2001. … Move: Transport Routes, Communication…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… [1] Robert Edgar. The Making of an African Communist, pp.12-13. 1932 Sam Kahn earns an LL. B degree from the … goes on a tour of South African to visit Party…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… the influence of the minority governments to the south. [12] Despite its good intentions, Tazara never truly achieved … Journal of African Historical Studies…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… the influence of the minority governments to the south. [12] Despite its good intentions, Tazara never truly achieved … Journal of African Historical Studies…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… each had 10 children, and the entire household of some 24 people lived in two rooms. There was no privacy, the … and on 29 May set the date for the election…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… Sharpeville massacre is evident, with 60% of those aged 16-24 never having heard of this important event. There was also … the past was “not very” or “not at…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… home, preparation of meals and cultivation of the garden. [12] The structure of the district in which the homestead lay, … because it was a central unit of…