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EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … the precursor to the Inkatha Freedom…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force of 'Ontevrede Afrikaners' (Dissatisfied Afrikaners) resulted in the formation of the Democratic Party…
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… the majority, set out to kill, rape and loot properties of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort … in New York, Molefe accepted an…
Phakamani
… inside South Africa and abroad to oppose the legality of the South African Government, was published by the ANC Department of Religious Affairs in Zambia…
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… students nationwide should close down Black institutions of higher education through lecture boycotts in support of the expelled Onkgopotse Abram Tiro from…
EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil-producing African nations. The opening of this pipeline raised hopes…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men convicted of the killing of Dr Abu Baker Asvat at his Soweto…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… to enter the police’s witness protection programme instead of the one run by the National Prosecuting Authority, after … testified in court, she was startled…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… by Thibault. The gable is generally considered to be one of the earliest usages in the Cape of a rectangular pediment. The cost of building this house must…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from John Daniel, President of NUSAS, suggesting ways of commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Universal…
EventP.W. Botha offers to resign
… regarding his involvement in the Information Scandal of 1978, if his accusers could prove that either he, or a member of his Cabinet, was aware of activities…
PlaceBotshabelo
… Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were … and founded the station at Botshabelo, which…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… for the 2010 FIFA World Cup . The design concept of the Stadium is: 'The Calabash, or African pot'. This … proud Global Colossal located in ' Nasrec House '…
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
… in Amsterdam, arrived at the Cape in 1715 as an employee of the Dutch East India Company The erf on which this double … and adjoining warehouse in…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… held moderate views. Kajee, the former Secretary General of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) had been replaced as President of the Natal Indian…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… and Smuts formed an alliance that culminated in the merger of the National Party (NP) and the South African Party (SAP), … The coalition received strong…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom Charter…
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… South. Boesak rose to prominence when he became the head of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in 1982. He used this platform to speak out against the…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… his parents were actors. He started his career at the age of eleven working on Fleet Street selling newspapers at … a lot about spies that were operating…
Free Mandela
… Yellow, red, green, black and white poster. Artwork of face of Nelson Mandela. Artwork of map of Africa. Artwork of people protesting. Issued by the …
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… The Coloured residential area of Macassar, Western Cape, was swiftly evacuated after a … air. The South Eastern wind blew the gas in the direction of…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… since its inception in 1974. This annual event is one of the most important events in the South African cultural … Monument was officially opened. With the…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… According to reports, no shares soared as rapidly as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm. A…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to various war-zone destinations during World War … on board, including 195 crewmembers…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… South African government. The report on the working group of the ANC and the government on indemnity for exiles and the release of political prisoners was…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… fired for the first time at Boer forces during the Siege of Kimberley. Rhodes, who had taken interest in the gun, was … along with eminent local figures and…
PlaceReitz
… province, Reitz is 51km from Bethlehem. At an altitude of 1622 metres, Reitz has an annual rainfall of about 686mm. In its earliest recorded history, the…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army…