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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…
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…
PlaceSada
… word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was first established in 1964 as a “dumping … from Shiloh, an…
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…
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…
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… Air Antonov 32 cargo plane crashed into a market made of wood and iron shacks, killing between 250 and 350 people in Kinshasa, Zaire (now The Democratic…
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…
ArchiveAll That Glitters by Emilia Potenza
… The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886 was a turning point in … "...In chemistry the diamond, being pure carbon, is one of the most commone…
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… in Deelfontein, near De Aar. The Blue Train was ahead of schedule and whiling time when the Karoo Train was … were injured in the collision. The Chief…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… France confirmed the sale of two new combat submarines to South Africa to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval…
EventDr Ben Ngubane is born
… many high political positions in the IFP and other spheres of government. He was minister of arts, culture and technology in President Mandela's Government…
EventTwo limpet mines explode in Hillbrow
… Johannesburg. The limpet mines were seen by a member of the SADF, who carried them down the staircase and put them … consideration to all the operations, the…
EventTerre’Blanche and his associates to face terrorism charges
… General announced that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three … would face terrorism charges. They have…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing with the issues in suppressing the aspirations of…
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
… Park. The conference focused primarily on the drafting of a Women's Charter and the future of the Women's National Coalition. The Women's Charter was adopted…