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EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… was granted in October 1889, with the responsibility of developing and colonising the territory north of the Limpopo, which today extends over Zambia and…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… de Klerk announced in Parliament that the Group Areas Act of 1950 will be replaced by new non-discriminatory measures acceptable to all Houses of Parliament…
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the … London. It was founded in 1849 and named by the Governor of the Cape Sir Henry…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 5: Education beyond apartheid
… Report of the Education Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society … apartheid rule. Content include: The nature and function of…
PlaceMartello Tower, Simonstown
… The circular tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence system of Simonstown. It has been claimed that this is the oldest…
PlaceMea Vota, Rissik Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria
… Africa Railway Co, for their own occupation. It is one of the last remaining examples of the mansions that characterised this part of Pretoria during the…
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… came four years after the famous speech “The winds of change” by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The … country’s independence came ten months after…
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon and his second wife, … Zulu customs while he was at his father's…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… Stalwart anti-apartheid campaigner of South Africa, Albertina Sisulu, wife of African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu, was … time since 1963…
EventProminent leaders are arrested in Uganda
… The Most Reverend Janani Luwum, Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-ZaÁƒÂƒÂ¯re, together with two government ministers, were arrested on…
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most violent in the world. COMSA, a fifteen-member team, which consisted of police, military,…
EventHarry Gwala is awarded Isitwalandwe/Seaparakoe
… On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) on 8 January 1992, … address at Gwala's funeral that it was 'precisely because…
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Former Director of the Office of West African Affairs and Ambassador to Liberia, Edward … in efforts to end Apartheid and get Nelson Mandela out of prison…
EventMerenstejin Sinks
… in Amsterdam, Holland in 1693 with a passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off Jutten Island on the West Cape coast. It sunk with a cargo of gold and silver…
EventWestern Cape High Court suspends pebble bed modular reactor at Koeberg
… High Court set aside Western Cape provincial Department of Environmental Affair's decision to permit the construction of a pebble bed modular reactor at…
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC) and chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, announced his intention to … is agreed…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… One month prior to the establishment of the democratic dispensation, South Africa was readmitted … Olympic Committee (IOC). The terms included the abolition…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… aside Winnie Madikizela Mandela's sentence of five years' imprisonment for kidnapping four youths and a one year sentence related to a charge of being an…
African Statistics Day
… Statistics Day (ASD) is celebrated every year on the 18th of November. This event was initiated in 1990 by the Subsidiary Body of the United Nations Economic…
PlaceSomerset Road, Green Point
… The Settlement of Green Point was established sometime before June 1846, and … called Green Point, in Cape Town. Somerset Road is heart of the Green Point…
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… oldest surviving school in Pretoria. The original portion of the building was probably designed by Kraan & Weijers, … and Laerskool Oost-Eind Primary School…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… Mbuli became known as the "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and … Mbuli's life…
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…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the small village of Mvezo , in the district of Qunu near Umtata , Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape ). … he was…
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…
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…