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EventLucas Seage is born
Lucas Seage, South African artist, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Gabon at Odi Stadium
… Special Edition, p. 10). http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/02/23/sport/AAMOLOTO.HTM …
EventThe Rosebud, en route from Calcutta to London, is stranded at Diaz Beach, Mossel Bay
… [online] Available at: 'diasmuseum.co.za' [Accessed 23 August 2010] Wallis, F. (2000) Nuusdagboek: feite en …
EventAt Botha, SA artist, is born.
… most renowned artists. He was born in Kroonstad on 23 December 1949. Botha studied drama at the Potchefstroomse …
Emissaries from Russia
1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… diamond fields [11] , and around 2,000 in Cape Town. [12] The attitude of the governments of the Boer republics was … change its position as a result of…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… schools, was brutally attacked by police. On September 12, 1977 Steve Bantu Biko died while in custody. Soon after, … Pascal Gwala’ from Poetry International…
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… three journalists in Athlone, Cape Town, in September 1985, was given a R500 fine and suspended for three years. …
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… All the accused pleaded not guilty. The trial dragged from 1985 till December 1988, when Justice Kees van Dijkhorst …
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
… Southern Transvaal synods in 1963. He died on 2 January 1985 in Seshego, Pietersburg district. …
EventSeveral leading members of trade unions affiliated to the UDF are arrested
… violence. This number increased to 600 by September 1985, a year after the initial outbreak of unrest. The unrest … South African History Online , ‘Township…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… The trial of 12 SASO and BPC leaders detained since September 1974. The charge sheet consisted of 81 pages. The 12 are accused of participating in terrorist…
EventJan de la Fontaine becomes Governor at the Cape
… Noodt succeeded him as governor until his death on 23 April 1729. Following this, De la Fontaine was again …
EventSA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title
… map' [online] Available at: iol.co.za [4 July] [Accessed 23 June 2009] …
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… of peace negotiations, which were concluded on 23 March 1881. The end of the war was finally reached with …
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. On 23 March 2013, about 13 South African soldiers were killed …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… victims had no time to prepare or protect themselves. On 12 January several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … and thirst as they fled through the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… gross domestic savings of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 12.5 per cent in the year 2000, relaxation of exchange …
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
… the subsequent deposition of Amin. He was president until 1985, when he was deposed a second time by Museveni. When … to become President of Uganda. He was…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… Introduction Apart from a prostate operation in 1985 and equally successful treatment for TB in 1988, … statement when I resume my exercises. December 1979…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
… for economic and labour-market failure. Kindly RSVP by 12 May 2014 Cape Town : HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building …
PlaceBoshof House, Boshof Avenue, Newlands
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 March 1985.The gateway to Boshof House was built in 1793, and is …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… campaigner and lawyer. He left South Africa in 1985 for Mozambique after being tipped off by the ANC's … at www.theleadershipsummit.co.za , [Accessed : 23…
EventThe South African government finally approves the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa and Gugulethu
… On 21 February 1985, the South African government finally approved the … Anon, (1985), '99-year Leasehold for Cape townships' from The Star …
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Durban. His wife, Victoria Mxenge, was assassinated in 1985 outside her home in Umlazi. In 1990, Dirk Coetzee and …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… African National Congress (ANC) representative. He died in 1985. …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by President PW Botha in 36 of South Africa’s 260 …
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… in political violence, which increased to 600 by September 1985 as the revolts spread across the country and the … South African History Online , ‘Township…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… a union which is still in operation. On 8 and 9 June 1985 unity talks between CUSA and the Azanian Confederate of …