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EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
… At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held a series of meetings to discuss means of quelling the unrest…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… The acceptance of the Namibian constitution on 9 February 1990 established the Republic of Namibia. The independence of Namibia can be directly traced to an…
EventSA military integration is disputed
… between British military advisers and the commanders of the SANDF over the integration process. The British advisers accused the SANDF of delaying the…
PlaceGwali Mission
… in 1820 by Reverend John Brownlee, as a station of for the Glasgow Missionary Society. The village which grew … Emgwali, takes its name from the Gwali River…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South Africa, many of whom were soccer…
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… The nearly month-long siege of Makapane's Cave took place after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makapane) massacred … Piet Potgieter and M.W…
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… The plans for the formation of the Young Communist League (YCL) were laid in 1921 when the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was established. Youth…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Railway Station between Swartkops and Coega, 16 km North of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes its name from the genus of plants with succulent…
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… attained Municipal status in 1895. Named after the owner of the land on which it was established, Johannes J.T. Venter. It is one of the smaller towns that…
PlaceKookfontein
… Sauvignon Blanc is grown on the Northern bank of the Jackals Creek, near the rustic seaside town of Lamberts Bay. The small boutique vineyard overlooks the…
Indian Opinion
… newspaper focused on Indian rights, poor living conditions of indentured labourers and racial discrimination. It provided an important historical record of…
PlacePump House, corner Prince and Sir George Grey Streets, Oranjezicht.
… illuminate Table Bay Harbour, 10 years before the rest of Cape Town. The building dates back to 1892. At the beginning of the 19th century an improved…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… On April 3, 1702, she hit reefs on the Southwest point of Jutten Island and within hours was smashed to pieces. Only 99 of the 200 people aboard the…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… Stewart (Bill) Ainslie, South African artist and founder of several art training projects, was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a descendent of an early…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… acrimony. On 18 July 1966 the International Court of Justice ruled in a split vote that they had no power to … (Britain, France and Malawi) to terminate the…
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Zimbabwe, Mann intended to procure arms to equip a group of mercenaries to overthrow the government of President Teodoro Obiang, allegedly on the instigation…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York State University. A year later he … published in 1974. Following three other…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… House on 31 August 1988. The building was the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches(SACC) and housed a number of other progressive…
EventKenyan mediates in SA election deadlock
… on his subjects to take part in the election. The details of the meeting were not made public. Independent Electoral … broken the election deadlock, side…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… and overcrowded. These factors contributed to the spread of disease. There was a shortage of both medical supplies and medical staff. At least 25 000…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… has documented the everyday, insidious manifestations of apartheid and its aftermath, rather than violent clashes … publications as Life and Look, and he…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect, and was built by the firm of Small & Morgan. It…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… brothers on 18 September 1884. This sparked off a flood of prospectors to the Witwatersrand, and eventually resulted in the discovery of the Main gold reef…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at the Church of Scotland Mission, where…
ArchiveInvestigating womens participation in protes
… A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Political Management) at the University of …
EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of wrongfully and unlawfully…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… Zwelakhe Sisulu is arrested Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA), and youngest son of Albertina and…
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
… The Republic of the Orange Free State was established by the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention (also called the Orange River … Clerk (for Britain) and…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in…