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EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… The athlete Hezekiel Sepeng is born in Potchefstroom, North West (then Western Transvaal). The ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in one…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… new permanent seat, the Gallagher Estate conference centre in Midrand, Gauteng. The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The…
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… Nelson Mandela first married in 1944. He and his wife Evelyn had 2 children and divorced in 1957. A year later, he married Winnie Madikizela-Mandela . Their…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… rebel leader Charles Taylor ascended to presidential power in a peaceful election following a seven-year civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire…
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
… colony Deutsche Ostafrika, was transferred to Britain and in 1961 became independent as Tanzania. The greater part of … Britain respectively. The Togo colony…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… and social liberation, Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the … groups of Indian, African and Coloured…
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies in the city on 9 July 1893. Cato was born in London, England in 1814. He came to South Africa as a…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… wagon-maker William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba) died in Lovedale, Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Danie Theron, an Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against … interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th century. In 1823, Egyptians founded Khartoum as their headquarters and developed Sudan's trade in ivory and…
Fighting Talk
… of the Springbok Legion of ex-servicemen and women, until in February 1954 when the "Fighting Talk Committee", in Johannesburg, took over the responsibility…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… part of our annual calendar, I have noted, though, that in some years I am given dinner and in others merely breakfast. I must have done something right ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… - especially when one is dealing with a profession in which timing is as important as content. As Scott MacLeod … But I should also commend you for one thing…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… the process of testing the adopted text was dealt with in the same open manner as the drafting. The test of … text. It was as important to the ANC, who had…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… (Extracts) In sincerely wishing you good health, strength and longevity … as to what the attainment of freedom would cost us in pain and suffering before…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… In the course of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador Marof, to … your vigilance…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… pay our last respects to a man who because of his belief in the freedom of the people of his country was robbed of the … ago to liberate Germany, he was…
PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
… Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese mariner Bartholomeu Dias because contrary winds caused many tracks in the…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… the price of textbooks for already overburdened students in South Africa. In April 2014 StatsSA put textbooks inflation at 13.6%. … States have saved their…
Africa South
… journal edited by Ronald M. Segal (1932-2008) was launched in Cape Town in 1956. The journal was published quarterly while funds were available. The last and…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student … for liberation. It was Tambo who played a…
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… wife! This became a neighbourhood of Johannesburg. Later in 1836, the Primary school, in Liden was named after him- Primary Louw Geldenhys! In 1895 he became…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo ). In 1958 he formed and led the Movement National Congolais … while its main opponents opted for a form…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… National Congress (ANC), who was executed by hanging in Pretoria Central Prison, was born on 10 July 1956 in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. Mahlangu left the…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being struck by a train. … which later…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open letter to President F. W. de Klerk to suspend … Malan, punishing members of the security forces…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination of Namibian lawyer Anton Lubowski. … Acheson allegedly gunned Lubowski down…
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… editorial slant voiced the interests of English settlers in the Eastern Cape. The paper was also obliged to print … Bible" from at least the 1860s, a title…
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… This disease often affects young children, most recently in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the disease is considered rare, cases of polio increased in Nigeria…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… extraction of gold, which after the end of hostilities was in full production. The first electric tram line commenced … had been proven to be an efficient…