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EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third … British government defeat the Basotho during the Gun War of 1880-1881. In…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
… Katlehong Artists, Malopoets. DRAMA SECTION: Theatre of the Dispossessed: James Mthoba and Joe Rahube by Matsemela Manaka. TRUTH AND CENSORSHIP Another…
PlaceNiewoudtville
… (prior to 1910) The village of Nieuwoudtville was established in 1897 on the farm … which, as the name implies, was sited on the banks of the Groen River…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… Stephen Bantu Biko was the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black … Elizabeth under the Terrorism Act. This arrest was one of…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… States had not. During the Reagan administration, a policy of constructive engagement with the apartheid government was … 1984, hoping to promote an economic…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… Themba Sono was forced to resign as president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) before he … controversial opening address in his capacity as…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had progressed considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa, 34 km North of Welkom. It was founded in 1950 and…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Revolution: Further Reflections, Joe Matthews. The Place of Boycott, Stanley Trapido. The Africanists Cut Loose, Peter … Horse in Northern Rhodesia, Kenneth…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… Cannon , was salvaged in May 1977 from the Shipwreck site of the Portuguese Ship- Sacramento , which ran aground near … DONATED BY COMMANDER C J ALLEN 30…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . … early 19th Century. It subsequently…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that previously formed part of the farm Weltevreden. The outbuildings date from the same ……
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Acknowledgements Title and Dedication - A People's History of South Africa Contents Epigraph - Questions of a Worker Reading History Introduction Part 1 -…
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… decided whether South Africa should remain a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations or declare a republic. The voting age restriction … while the…
EventSasol I, NATREF and Sasol II are under attack
… Three attacks were launched on the night of 31 May/1 June at Sasol I and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol … for the attacks was made in June 1979 by members of…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… cells on 16 November 1977. Another document gives the date of his death as 7 November 1977. Because of these discrepancies the correct date could not be … …
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10 October 1992. The attack was part of an APLA military…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… force to break up demonstrations against a "rebel tour" of South Africa by the English Cricket team. Angry anti … visit to South Africa by the British…
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… On 15 October 1989, five of the eight African National Congress (ANC) long term … Mhlaba, Endrew Mlangeni and Elias Motsoaledi. Three of the eight prisoners…
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… forces from Angola that have been fighting on the side of Jonas Savimbi led guerrilla forces UNITA. The withdrawal came as a result of South Africa losing an…
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid on the home of Judge Dayalin Chetty in Port Elizabeth. The two men had … Consulate, before securing passports and…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… On the night of 15 August 1985, South Africa's President P. W. Botha … the infamous "Rubicon" Speech in Durban. Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Pik…
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the Sao Raphael, … four months…
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… human remains. The bones were suspected to be those of South West African People's Organisation fighters who may … been killed in the so-called nine-day war …
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, announced at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa was … time, lagging behind other African…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway to Umtali was completed in February … to Pauling & Co., its constructors. The…
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… and this event proved a remarkable influence on the future of his political life. Gandhi was later instrumental in protesting against policies of…
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
… Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he … protection. On 30 September 1878, he…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) of Jonas Savimbi, signed a peace deal in Lusaka, Zambia. The … by the United Nations (UN)…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… The trainees cited their unhappiness with the slow pace of integration into the SANDF and conditions in the camp. All the dismissed recruits were former…