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EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, president of ZANU since 1977, became the prime minister. Joshua Nkomo … in the new 100-seat parliament…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… outside parliament while leading a protest march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. … and…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the … as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial … African Aerial Transports Ltd company, under the…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born…
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a speech to the joint sitting of…
EventEgyptian author, and trade unionist, Gamal al-Banna is born
… Though he was the younger brother of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal al-Banna was a liberal scholar and a critic of the Muslim…
Clarion Call
… Clarion Call was published as the official journal of the KwaZulu Government, as a record of their activities, and as a mouthpiece of the Inkatha Institute…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… concerned with Alexandra, since that was the home location of Ditshwantsho, it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in the general…
WhatsYourHeritage
… This event is an initiative of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Solution Space and the Bertha Centre for Social …
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative trend of politics including the elements of…
EventSamuel Marks (77) dies in Johannesburg
… Sammy Marks was a diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and Senator in the Parliament of the Union of South…
Letter from Jack Simons to Oliver Tambo
… Letter from Jack Simons of the Constitutional Committee and Zola Skweyiya of the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs to Oliver Tambo regarding …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights…
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
… had that I so admired. Robert saw beyond the surface of things and valued what society discarded. In 1970, at the age of 22, Robert started researching the…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's ……
ArchiveNUSAS 1982 Resumé
… Illustrated resumé of the activities of the National Union of South African Students during 1982. The theme for 1982, …
PlaceVictorian terrace House complex, Grove Road and Albert Road, Mowbray
… These 9 dwellings form part of a unique Street Block that dates from the 1880s, and consisted of two terraced rows, of identical late-Victorian Double-storey…
PlaceBlue Lodge Hotel, 206-208 Long Street, Cape Town
… This impressive building was erected at the turn of the 19th century and forms an important part of the architectural character of Long Street, one of the…
ArchiveTried for treason
… Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition on the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 opening on 27th February 1996 at the Museum Africa, Johannesburg…
PlaceBertram House, Hiddingh Hall Campus, Orange Street, Cape Town
… under old NMC legislation on 21 September 1962. A part of the Cape Town Campus of UCT- Hiddingh Hall. This was the original "home" of the University of Cape…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… Due to the almost total absence of water, there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and…
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He … would later be the inspiration for his…
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… Hundreds of Blacks assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town … a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of the ANC Women's League and later…
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… Dadoo, Indians observed complete hartal, that is, a day of mourning or protest on which all the shops were shut and … were held in many cities and towns. A…
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…