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EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, a staunch opponent of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), resigned…
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind’s deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes’318.25m plunge beat the record of…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… trade relations with South Africa. Tanganyika became one of the first countries in Africa to impose sanctions on South Africa. The majority of countries in…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church of the Province of South Africa) Bishop of Johannesburg, returned to South Africa from his long leave ……
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of movement, land and residential rights, and employment … proposed solution to their challenges was…
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… He was widely regarded as the best court interpreter of his day and was a talented rugby and cricket player who … He was also instrumental in the anti-pass…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… , journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by … time with her husband, Joe Slovo ,…
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior … in the face. Verwoed was sitting at his…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Mandela’s former wife and politician was elected President of the African National Congress’ Women’s League (ANCWL) on 8 … all ANC leadership posts,…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-sunset hunger strike to support the…
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… Robert Moffat, missionary of the London Missionary Society at Kuruman and father-in-law of Dr David Livingstone, was born in Ormiston, Scotland, to a … and…
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor … Adriaan van der Stel. Upon his retirement, Simon was…
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… discovered that he had sailed past the southern-most point of Africa. A strong wind had driven him so far south of Cape Point that he did not see it and had…
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… Six. After matriculation he enrolled at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, … Omar was his spokesperson. Omar was the…
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… Products Control Amendment Bill, which bans all forms of tobacco advertising and prohibits smoking in public places, including workplaces. The passage of the…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… they were suing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president, Nelson Mandela, for more than two million rands, the equivalent value of…
EventCullinan diamond is cut into two
… The Cullinan diamond was cut into two big stones, The Star of Africa and the Cullinan 2, as well as seven fairly big stones and ninety-six small stones. The…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On 26 August 1966, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), the armed wing of SWAPO, fought in a battle against South African occupying … August, …
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town. This was the third day of an operation aimed removing an estimated…
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… the country was demarcated into nine provinces. Some of these provinces were given geographical names, like … Transvaal and Eastern Transvaal. In 1995, the…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… by the Swaziland Police Commissioner and a large cache of arms in the north of the country was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… returned to Ethiopia to reclaim his throne with the help of the British. Selassie lost his throne in 1936 after he was … a guerrilla war to undermine and…
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… a double decker school bus with seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunged into the Westdene Dam .The … the driver blacked out as he was driving…
Fosatu Worker News
… Worker News was first published in 1979 with the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions and was distributed amongst all union members with…
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
… High Court Judge Nkola Motata drove through garden wall of a house north of Johannesburg. He was found to be drunk by police and is said to have resisted…
ArchiveMoral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster
… Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Natal, Durban on 25 March 1993. The lecture formed part of a long term project on the origins,…
ArchiveOpening address to the 56th NUSAS Congress
… Opening address at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, November 1978. Refers, … to challenges faced by the…
ArchiveNUSAS 1984 Congress
… Programme for the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2-7 December 1984. Includes…
Archive500 anos
… in red letters. All other lettering in black. Artwork of a green map of South America with a black cross over it covered in blood. Two hands on either side…
ArchiveFort Hare crisis
… B to President's Report, presented at 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 1969. Includes fact-sheets on events at the…