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PlaceBalule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… In the language of the Shangaan people , the name 'Balule' is the Tsonga word … Reserve covers 40 000 Hectares on the Western Boundary of the Kruger National…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… then returned to South Africa and became Managing Director of the Corporation in 1945. During the 1950s he was involved in the expansion of Anglo American's…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed in the Donkin Reserve Complex, and the Regimental Museum of the…
PlaceAll Saints Anglican Church, Durbanville
… the old parsonage, as well as a church hall and a garden of remembrance, dates from 1860 and is closely associated with the history and development of…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella Oosthuizen, the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… In 1954 the Minister of Justice C.R. Swart issued African National Congress (ANC) … and another confined him to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela,…
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South African Communist Party before it was banned in … membership and became National…
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… Judge C.F. Eloff sentenced Polish immigrant and supporter of the Neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Janusz … Clive's wife, acquitted. Eloff slammed…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… activists. Justice Johan Kriegler ruled in favour of the Vrye Weekblad and accepted Coetzee version of the story while he found Neethling to be an unreliable…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency. The state of emergency gave the president powers to rule by decree and … measures…
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… mercenaries were arrested in Equatorial Guinea. Many of the suspects were South African, including the alleged leader of the advance party, Nick du Toit. The…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… Queen Mother, celebrated her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is the first member of…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… Underlying political tensions between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom … Movement (UDM) convened a meeting in Richmond -…
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… Square police station just 12 days before the release of former president Nelson Mandela . At the time of his arrest, Sithole was in a relationship with…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of the ANC Youth League in the 1950s. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went underground…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Constitution Hill is a Living Museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former … Country’s Constitutional Court,…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… The Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden in Ruimsig , is one of eight botanical gardens in South Africa. It covers almost 300 Hectares of ground with both…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… the appalling conditions in the rural areas and townships of South Africa. The first Carnegie inquiry into poverty in … years later, most Black South…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was taken to the … United Nations, read article. For chronological details…
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… return to class following a walkout to protest the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. This marks a turning point and leads to the 16 June 1976…
EventMozambique gains independence
… rulers, Mozambique became independent as People's Republic of Mozambique. Mozambique was colonised by the Portuguese … launched in 1962, was spearheaded by…
EventPresident de Klerk warns General Bantu Holomisa
… Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) by … issued a stern warning to General Bantu Holomisa, leader of…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court, comprising of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the…
EventTwo policemen are killed in poll tax resistance
… Two policemen were killed by a group of Zulus near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to the collection of poll tax, which became payable on 1…
EventP.W. Botha announces that all South Africans will take part in a constitutional conference
… 1984 saw P.W. Botha elected to the position of President, having abolished the position of Prime Minister in 1983. These two events were preceeded by … would…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist Government…
PlaceEritrea
… Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa located on the Red Sea. A fact reflected in its name, which is an Italianized version of; 'Mare Erythraeum'. Which…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… 1936. (Note the National Monuments plaque on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs 12,7 tonnes and was manufactured by Emil Kessler of Esslingen in…
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was enlarged by three cells and an office shortly before the turn of the…
EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… On 28 September 1984, the 266th plenary meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held. In a summary document of the meeting entitled …