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EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… Colony administration. However, it was not until the end of 1845 that an effective administration was installed with Mr Martin West as lieutenant-governor…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart attack in Kampala. He was on his way back from the … Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Vilakazi…
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… solution to the political unrest in the country. Thousands of people turned out on the streets to greet President Thabo Mbeki and the rest of his delegation…
EventFraud and Corruption on the rise in SA
… Advocate Steven Powell of the forensic and auditing firm Deloitte and Touche surprised many delegates attending a conference of the Institute of Municipal…
EventUDF distances itself from Madikizela
… Commission (TRC) heard from the leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Frank Chikane and Azar Cachalia, about the organisation's suspicion of…
EventRelations between South Africa and Algeria are smoothed out
… ties by signing a bilateral agreement to develop areas of common interest. The relations between the two countries … President Nelson Mandela received Anouar…
EventSeretse Khama is born
… born on 1 July 1921 in Serowe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, now known as Botswana. He studied in South … and graduated from Fort Hare College…
EventChief Mqikela dies
… The Paramount Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku and first chief of East Pondoland, died in Qawukeni, near Palmerton, … Chief Mqikela took over from his…
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a Mali-based militant…
EventHundreds die in a train fire in Egypt
… have been started by a gas cylinder spread through seven of a train’s eleven cars in Egypt. The gas cylinder which was … heading to Luxor in Egypt, carrying…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… The Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) hosts the 10th Oral Annual History … the…
EventTwenty-six miners trapped in a Swaziland coal mine are rescued with help from South Africa.
… immediately requested from South Africa’s Chamber of Mines. The Ingersoll-Rand rescue drill was kept at Witbank, Mpumalanaga. This kind of rescue was the…
EventDundee and Glencoe are retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops during the South African War II
… (Anglo-Boer War II 1899-1902) intensified. The area west of Glencoe was under the command of General Schalk Burger, who would later be replaced by … Natal…
EventFour black newspapers are banned by the SA government
… technically on the same day that the eight week strike of black journalists ends. Six days later, in the Rand … security police served the president and vice…
EventGuinea-Bissau is granted independence
… country became independent eight months after the death of the leader of, Portuguese for African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)…
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
… Nigeria. He received critical acclaim after the publishing of his first novel Flowers and Shadows. His novels are … Road, was published in 1991 and announced…
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
… A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of over a hundred bridges in South Africa. It was during the construction of the…
The Neglected Tradition
… In 1987 when I was first approached by Christopher Till of the Johannesburg Art Gallery to curate an exhibition of art by 'black South Africans, I spent much…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement came after the … the whole world was…
PlaceFrankfort
… Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was laid out in 1869 on the…
Everard Read Art Gallery
… In 1912, in Johannesburg , one of South Africa’s most famous art galleries was established. … just as Johannesburg grew into South Africa’s capital of…
EventTravis Logie, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… On 2 June 2012, he was crowned South African Surfer of the Year at the 2012 South African Surfing Awards.[v] … Travis Logie announced his retirement from the…
EventGhana demands independence from Britain
… In 1821, the British Government took control of the British trading forts. In 1844, Fanti chiefs on the … the Convention People's Party (CPP) to power with…
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… to a doctor, and her lawyer was also detained. At the time of her detention she was amongst 335 other people who were detained under the State of Emergency…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… her involvement, but in 2003, Bulelani Ngcuka was accused of acting as an apartheid spy under the alias of Agent RS452. It soon emerged that Brereton was…
PlaceRiverside
… made his home at Riverside. A notorious miser whose mode of dress was more suited to the life-style of a homeless pauper, he soon accumulated a vast fortune…
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… Lee], which is absolutely lies. Towards the beginning of January last year, we workers of Steel Ceilings and Aluminium Works Ltd. formed our … that will take…
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… (ICC) following an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in the 2010 … Gbagbo was placed under house arrest in the…
PlaceDiep River
… its hospitality and in the 1840's became the headquarters of the Cape Hunt. It also became a popular destination for … house the Eaton Convalescent Home. In…
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… The crowd gathered together at the Grand Parade in front of the City Hall in Cape Town, the place where Nelson Mandela … danced while some waved the South…