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EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… in Deelfontein, near De Aar. The Blue Train was ahead of schedule and whiling time when the Karoo Train was … were injured in the collision. The Chief…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… France confirmed the sale of two new combat submarines to South Africa to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… At the conclusion of the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the … Raymond Mhlaba . Mandela argued that he was driven…
EventDr Ben Ngubane is born
… many high political positions in the IFP and other spheres of government. He was minister of arts, culture and technology in President Mandela's Government…
EventTwo limpet mines explode in Hillbrow
… Johannesburg. The limpet mines were seen by a member of the SADF, who carried them down the staircase and put them … consideration to all the operations, the…
EventTerre’Blanche and his associates to face terrorism charges
… General announced that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three … would face terrorism charges. They have…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing with the issues in suppressing the aspirations of…
EventMalawian President Hastings Banda visits SA
… Vorster to Malawi in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi became the first head of an independent Black African state to visit South Africa … to…
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
… Park. The conference focused primarily on the drafting of a Women's Charter and the future of the Women's National Coalition. The Women's Charter was adopted…
EventFurther chaos in Liberian civil war
… without them. Doe, amidst ethnic warfare which killed tens of thousands of Liberians and caused over 700,000 more to flee the … and killed by the Independent…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… process in the party that culminates in the appointment of F. W. de Klerk . P.W. Botha presided over South Africa when violence and state suppression of…
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, Mozambique, and was buried there … on 2…
EventPhumizile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as SA Deputy President
… Former Minister of Minerals and Energy, Phumizile Mlambo - Ngcuka was … testimony had implicated Zuma. Mlambo-Ngcuka is the wife of the former controversial…
EventPresident Hosni Mubarak collapses
… live on television in Cairo. After forty-five minutes of medical attention, Mubarak returned to parliament. … him as he continued with his speech. He told…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of having a child out of wedlock and subsequently found guilty by the…
EventThe National Anti-Corruption Forum is launched in Langa
… J.G. Zuma in Langa, Cape Town. The forum was born of a cabinet decision following the National Anti-Corruption … was consistent with the global call to…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The visit, from 11 to 13 August, … National Congress and the PLO. SA…
EventElize Botha dies
… Mrs Elize Botha, first wife of former State President P.W. Botha, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western Cape. About…
EventCyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
… Speculation around Ramaphosa's resignation was because of a belief that he has been overlooked by Nelson Mandela in … him the second most powerful person in…
EventPutin visits South Africa
… Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town, leading a delegation of government officials and business people on a two day official visit. This was the first ever…
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… Lydia van Niekerk, professor of Dutch Literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, was born on the farm…
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… National Lotteries Board The National Arts Council of South Africa The National Heritage Council Bateman BV Department of Basic Education De Beers The…
EventKenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies
… Founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party (NCPC) and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National Union (KANU), Thomas Joseph … After Kenya‘s…
EventBernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first White baby, is born at the Cape
… named Bernert Willemsz Wijlant and he would be the first of many European babies to be born in the Cape. Baby Wijlant … scriptures and help them draw up…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… which in turn determined the implementation of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his second wife Ruth … ten years' imprisonment respectively, being…
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
… Robert Resha was an activist, journalist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist, he … for participating in the Defiance Campaign…
EventBritish Prime Minister Wilson announces arms embargo on South Africa
… Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, announced in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose an embargo on the export of arms to South…
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
… the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black citizens; this was carried out in terms of the Bantustan policy. The policy assigned…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… The author of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The…