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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…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… in South Africa, Valliammai became increasingly aware of the oppressive system she and her family were living … was sixteen she joined her mother and a large…
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…
ArchiveStudents Representative Council: Press release
… This press release is a statement of rejection, by the Black youth of Azania, of the concept of Bantu homelands …
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa/Wits Art Museum. For a few decades, the concept of decolonisation has become a clarion…
PlaceKwaMhlanga
… town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th … the government administration for the…
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… P." Mda (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served…
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the same year (1986) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The governing body of Games were already faced with…
PlaceCity Hall, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid the corner stone on 29 … It took…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the Islamic al Shabaab rebels. …
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political…
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who … his home with stones on 13 November 1985…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad … acute…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in…
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a Lieutenant … to…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to … motivated violence. The announcement was made by a…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… 20 October 1988 She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself as beautiful, even though she was thin…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at … years. Botha’s first job as a lecturer…
ArchiveFifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology
… Cream poster with brown lettering. University of Cape Town Faculty of Music Notice of a Symposium. Artwork of cave men paintings. …