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EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… On 14 November 1961 Katangan President, Moise Tshombe, and Congo …
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
Tuesday, 29th October 1929, saw the world's economy go into recession as the New York Stock Exchange collapsed and saw shocked investors withdraw their…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… On 14 May 1992, Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… with Pieter van Meerhof as second in command, along with 14 European volunteers and three 'Hottentots'. They trekked …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… that the Immigrants Regulation Act was passed on June 14 1913. The Act put an end to Indian immigration and …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… war as approximately 26 000 Boer women and children and 14,000 Black South Africans died in over-crowded, unsanitary …
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… two charges and was fired as the chief whip of the ANC on 14 December 2006. He also lost his parliamentary seat and his …
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… Kimathi (play, co-authored with Ngugi wa Thiong’o); her 1994 My Mother’s Poem and Other Songs (poetry); her 1991 … have only slowly become known on the…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… between 1990 and the first democratic election of April 1994. The following chronology focuses only on the meetings … - 23 meetings 1988 - 32 meetings 1989 -…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… not shown in South Africa until the end of apartheid in 1994 at the Durban Film Festival. [xviii] Ngakane choose to … heard. Even before Ngakane’s return to…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… annual level since 1972. GDP growth averaged 2,7% from 1994 to 1998, despite the Asian contagion, and is expected to … on the trade side. Our real export…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… for the election date would be moved to the 4 th of March 1994. …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… only ceased with the new democratic dispensation in 1994. The most profound result of the strike, however, was …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… process culminated in the first democratic elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black President. The …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… community. This participation was confirmed on 28 August 1994, when South Africa signed the SADC treaty and agreed to …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… of as the underdogs. In their maiden appearance in the 1994 edition of the tournament, they failed to qualify for …
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is an open, expansive Savannah Landscape at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. Mapungubwe developed into the…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… the spirit of reconciliation post-Kempton Park and April 1994, there was a quest for inclusiveness also in the public … demise of apartheid and the first…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
Indoor bazaar with shops selling bargains from clothing to home-ware to spices, plus food stalls. Established in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg in the…
PlacePiquetberg
… 11,587 residents, of whom 4,939 were literate 1904 census: 14,434 residents, of whom 6,894 were literate In 1833 the …
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… of achievements during the football celebration with 14 million signatures, 1 million of followers every week and …
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… passed with merit.When the World War I started, she was 14 years old and her family home, Glamis Castle, was used as …
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… year in 2008. The University of Cape Town Act (Act 14 of 1916) and the University of Stellenbosch Act (Act 13 of …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… Ian Smith's white minority government led the country for 14 years amid international scorn and sanctions. Following a …
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… a ceasefire with Unita on 13 March 2002, to take effect on 14 March. Official talks between senior staff of both groups …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… due to ill health, he would not be able to appear on the 14 th of October. The former ministers were subpoenaed for …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… the upper hand, however, this changed when an additional 14 000 troops were sent from Germany to crush the …
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… six months of his life where he died of heart failure on 14 July 1904. His remains were returned to South Africa and …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… the division: 1841 census: 8,292 residents 1865 census: 14,695 residents, of whom 3,912 were literate 1875 census: …