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EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, former president of the SA Rugby Football Union and politician, was born in … He ventured into politics after he was…
EventBilateral talks to continue
… was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the continuation of talks toward a…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… Minister of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August … equal status be given to all participants in the process of drawing up the new…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… benefited from the floor-crossing rule that allows members of parties at all three levels of government to join a party of their choice without losing their…
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… self-government status by Britain, according to the terms of the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, signed between representatives of the two Boer Republics and…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War in an…
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… reflects sustainability includes not only the repurposing of refuse to create fashionable garments, innovative … sculptures and decorative arts, but also the…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Museum illustrate the changes brought about because of the Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand and include a Reconstructed 19th … and 1930s Lounge Setting…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… the SAP and SADF in 1966, hardly a month after the verdict of the World Court, which South Africa won on a technical … former decision and ruled that South…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, a turning point in the history of southern Africa, the stalemate condition led all parties … positions. South Africa and Cuba…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… home and joined the Loreto sisters, an Irish community of nuns, working in India. After teaching at St. Mary's High School, she left the mission to work in…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the royal houses of Monomotapa, which ruled over the Zimbabwean people in the …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… had been decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name of the newspaper, De Burger ("The Citizen"), was decided on. … the newspaper was first published…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… dire conditions prevailing in the camps to the attention of the British parliament, resulting in the appointment of a Ladies' Commission (Fawset Commission)…
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… After the abolition of the triumvirate, consisting of Vice-President Paul Kruger, Commander-General Piet Joubert … and W.M. Pretorius, Paul Kruger was…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… the convoy along its length, firing from both sides of the road. Two events of the same nature, before this one, happened on the same … road where 330 people…
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… Technical College and later taught at the University of Johannesburg. After his first solo exhibition in 1945 he … African to be awarded a travel grant from…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled the … they hid his mutilated body in a nearby…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
The fight against passes continues
… Barbie Schreiner All this time there was still this thing of passes for women going on, and the women still protesting. Quite soon after the Congress of the…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… Mbeki asserted the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African … Mbeki espoused the view that AIDS was linked…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
… Province on 16 December 1990.[1] Cassper Nyovest is one of the most prominent figures in SouthAfrican hip hop. … “Most Gifted Southern Artist”, and “Most…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… Frank Joubert Art and Design Centre in the leafy suburb of Newlands. The school started with 37 pupils. Over the … years, pupil numbers have increased and…
PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… The Magwa Waterfall lies in the middle of the 1 800 hectare Magwa tea plantation , South Africa's … "The Magwa Waterfall is pretty impressive!" It is one…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for … on the farm site, at 'De Onderstepoort', 11km North…
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… The excellent Portrayal of Life as a Migrant Worker, found at the Worker’s Museum in … balanced presentation without sensationalising any aspect of this…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… State President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela , leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional … prison sentence he had been serving…
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… defeated, had opposed Gaika's claim to the chieftainship of the Rarabe clans of the Xhosa. After Ndlambe and Nxele Makana slaughtered hundreds of Ngqika's…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Frederik Bezuidenhout owned a farm east of the Cape Colony. After reports surfaced that he was allegedly mistreating one of his Khoikhoi laborers, he was…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… that he was in the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people were killed … the Boipatong massacre . An estimated…