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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…
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… on Biodiversity Conservation, and Ecology. The mission of the Durban Natural Science Museum is to acquire and … its history, and life on Earth, both past and…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one of…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… A rural Town some 91 km North of Grahamstown , Eastern Cape . The Area of Adelaide, was first inhabited by Bushmen , estimated about … there and named it…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… than it's vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a respectable altitude variance of 286 m, it only has 10 bends, corners and curves…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… India.) The route they followed passed a few miles South of Maclear. According to all Historical records they were the first Europeans ever to enter the Area…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a … 1946. He started playing…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers arrived in Durban…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book, Ruth … Multi-Racial…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South … since 1854 and has immense Historical value. The nucleus of…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… During the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a … to the Government and companies registered under the laws of the…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation). Mandela founded Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) with … the apartheid…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… This natural water feature marks the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon . The potholes were named after Tom … to create these formations are the Treur River…
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…
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… The Minister of Justice, James Thomas (JT, Jimmy) Kruger, announced that the provisions of the Internal Security Act, allowing for the unlimited detention…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student … protests against laws decreed to limit the freedoms of Black South Africans at…
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, ……
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in … Black and Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of petty apartheid…
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,…
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… sentenced in Klerksdorp to be hanged to death for the rape of a Black woman, Ginny Gotsoine in February 1985. Two other White men in the same case were found…
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… (Paper flower). The ceremony was held at the University of Pretoria. The Hertzog prize is named in honour of General J.B.M. Hertzog, former premier of the…
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…