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B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… The Honourable B. J. Vorster is not only one of the most active speakers in the Republic of South Africa, but also one of the most sought after. As a speaker…
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes … Barker made a significant contribution to the…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King led blacks in the Montgomery bus…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… Neil Aggett, former organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and … issued a call that on 11 February 1982, that on the day of his…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Johannesburg. The organisation was based on the philosophy of Black Consciousness advocated by Steven Biko. It was open … but closed to Whites. AZAPO emerged…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… most affected. The violence took place under the State of Emergency, which was declared in 1985 by President PW … apartheid government, but soon spread…
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… safeguards for all people. To harness the great resources of the country to fight the real enemies of the people, namely; poverty, hunger, unemployment, ……
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… hoped that through the elections it would get a new group of Black councillors to support it, and at the same time could assess the effect the State of…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public violence in July, were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment, three of which were…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… Ms Pearl Tshabalala, a prominent businesswoman and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who … on instruction from Samuel Jamile,…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to … Blacks was postponed until such…
PlaceRosmead
… was inaugurated. Due to its location at the junction of the Western, Midland and Eastern Railway Systems, the … an important role in the Military and…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… and social, economic, political and institutional rights of Black people. The commemoration of his birth this year (2008) is a fitting tribute to a hero ……
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama School. Flynn was a well respected … his role as Willie Loman in the South…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker Bay, at present day Gans Bay in the Western Cape . … available while the men stood in line on…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated with an honours degree in English … In 1963, while working in London,…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The slave … to buy his freedom and settled in the…
EventKenya is granted independence
… Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed the first all inclusive … dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to Meadowlands, Soweto . Their possessions were loaded at the back of police trucks, and…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms by the police, the government was faced…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Johannes Fouche was born in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from 1968-1975…
PlaceYokohama, Muizenburg
… house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché, imported from Japan. The house is a historical heritage property of Muizenberg and…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with … regard meant their citizens were going to suffer, as both of them were dependent on…
EventOne person killed by bomb meant for Chris Hani
… person was killed in a car bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani, then Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander in Lesotho. Eben Frederick Coetzee, a department…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… R9m. would be written off. He told surprised residents of Soweto and of the independent 'homelands', which he also visited in … time, "we are all South…
EventTranskei announces plans to unban ANC and PAC
… During the celebration day of independence not recognised by the international community, the President of the Transkei homeland, Tutor Ndamase, announced…
EventCOSATU delegates are left at Beitbridge
… In spite of being refused to visit, the thirteen delegates of the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), left for Zimbabwe with …
EventCuban Foreign Minister visits South Africa
… The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Mr Roberto Robaina, visited South Africa at the …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… was a lawyerand politician. He became the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa. He was very popular and loved for his …
EventA coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills over four hundred workers
… stunned the whole country and the world. Over a third of those who perished were citizens of Rhodesia’s neighbouring countries of Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique…