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EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… on an eighth-round technical knockout. On 18 November 1995 Matlala, who was then a junior flyweight, went up …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
… law. The Iraq oil-for-food programme was established in 1995 by UN to allow Iraq to trade oil in exchange for …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… African Police Services(SAPS) National Commissioner (1990-1995), admitted that he gave the order in 1988 for the SAP to …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… and Askari, Brian Ngqulunga. His trial started in February 1995 and he was sentenced to life imprisonment on 30 October …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… and health of neighbours. Representation of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936 Removed Black voters in the Cape from the common … Act No 46 of 1959. The Representation…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief … Africans could only stay in an urban…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… Africa, its share of manufacturing output standing at 12%. The Strike Unfolds On the morning of 9 January 1973, all … road and drain departments stopped work…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… on 18 August 1980, Unit 2 on 1 October 1980, Unit 3 on 16 September 1981, Unit 4 on 1 July 1982, Unit 5 on 31 March … dates is that the planned commercial…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the fall of apartheid, is born in Observatory, Cape Town. 12 June, Mossa ‘Mosie’ Molla , political activist, Treason … Council (NRC) with six White officials…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… and Black workers were frequently assaulted by whites [12] . It was not only South Africans who worked as cheap … the first to have major repercussions on…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. [12] It was found that the virus was most likely spread from … of camels and eventually to a human in…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… were readmitted and the team went on to participate in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The team went on to win the world cup …
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… SA Rugby Union was held in Zimbabwe. Seven years later, in 1995, South Africa hosted and won the Rugby World Cup. The …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… Anniversary Commemoration Trust speech in Cape Town. 1995 6 January , Slovo dies after a long battle with cancer. …
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… had no biological children‚ after having an abortion in 1995. Khwezi had known since April 1999 that she was … organisations with a keen interest in HIV…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… were only interested in the gold. Cortes came with 16 horses (which the Aztecs had never seen before), 14 … Sable Island, but failed, having run out of…
The Children’s Charter
… was attended by over 200 children between the ages of 12 and 17. As children in South Africa, they discussed the …
Afrikaner
… was held during the inauguration of the Monument (13-16 December). Several other centenaries were celebrated with … rugby nations in the world, and the world…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
When the Dutch settled in South Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to the African continent. Jan van…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M'membe is born
… Institute of Southern Africa's Press Freedom Award in 1995. That same year, he also won the International Press …
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… women. The first National Women's Day was celebrated in 1995. South Africa had just become a democratic country at … ,[online], Available at: www…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… of Zululand in 1969 and his PED IMD in Switzerland in 1995. Khoza professes that he inherited his entrepreneurial …
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… We had to sabotage it." He applied for amnesty in 1995 for the bombing of the ANC's offices in London and …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… to Shoshobane, the site of the Christmas day massacre of 1995, the killing of Xolo threatened the fragile peace …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… Springboks, has since, won the World Cup twice; first in 1995, in their very first competition (of which they were …
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… of the Constitutional Committee was estabÂlished in June 1995 to facilitate negotiations. This subcommittee proved to … work in September 1994 and had a…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National … forces in demonstrations that…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of indentured labourers arrives … Indian Congress's first Secretary…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… advance major proposals such as the abolition of Section 16 of the Immorality Act , the Mixed Marriages Act and …
ArticlePoqo
… was the Ruvu camp. The exiled PAC responded to the June 16 Soweto upr isings by establishing the camp. The Ruvu … was conceived by Leballo to be similar to…