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EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… Since colonial rule their numbers have shrunk as a result of diseases and wars with other Namibian societies and German troops. Loss of grazing land…
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
… charged with hunting in the park and illegal possession of game meat. A spokesperson for Kruger National Park reported that it was the first case of its kind…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban descent, which made him mixed race in South Africa … was also a talented writer and wrote…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright … in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. The brothers…
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… his international debut in 2003. He is currently captain of the Zambian national team. Under his leadership, this team won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2012…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance … area. Again in 1959 he was banned for a further period of…
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie
… interview – Techcentral 2011 Parties sing the praises of late Minister Padayachie Patriotic teachers should de-link … a huge loss - Jacob Zuma Roy Padayachie…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… Senghor was a poet and writer who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted … On 31 December 1980, Senghor became…
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The South African Commissioner of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the … were not being suspended to appease the unfounded protests of…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… people into locations! It proposes to push them into a set of special areas for residence and trade! It intends to allow … attacked in the FAGAN BILLS which…
Don’t eat potatoes!
… blood went in. You see this mark "here? It's the blood of our children, that's why the potato is so.' The people … the potatoes and that we say that these…
The ‘special branch’
… They used to come to my house sometimes in the middle of the night and they knock on the door, gong-ong-ong! Loud, … 'Hawu! But how can you come to my house…
Museum Night Cape Town 2016
… We recommend browsing the programme and picking just a few of the things you want to see and do. To support the production of Museum Night, purchase a Patron…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid organizations that opposed the government's … constitutional reform proposals. On the…
PlaceIbeka, Simonstown
… This land was one of the original erven granted in Simons Town . Built in 1816 by PJ Truter Jnr, Collector of Customs who owned it until 1842. In 1840 it was…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… and the problems its membership poses, the governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) resolved that … South Africa was faced with many…
EventMafika Gwala born
… and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. Soon after joining the University of Zululand, he chose to rather devote…
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… Minister, was briefly imprisoned following two nights of unrest on charges of inciting riots in Stanleyville. He was then set free in … which it gained from…
EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… (WHO). The events promote awareness on the dangers of the diseases and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. South Africa is one of the countries that…
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… with his team operated on her, conceded that she had died of "chronic rejection" of her transplanted heart. Only in the middle 1980s did … anti-rejection…
EventCoup attempt on S Doe’s government in Liberia
… headed by Brigadier-General Thomas Quiwonkpa, a faction of the Liberian military failed to take power from Samuel … by force and restore democratic rule…
EventSimon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to assist dissatisfied burghers
… Both Freykenius and Nederburgh were Commissioner-Generals of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and were sent to … burghers, or farmers who had been given…
EventSoccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
… Mosimane appeared before the committee on two charges, one of bringing the PSL into disrepute and another of interrupting the normal flow of play during the…
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… by issues ranging from disarmament and militarisation of outer space to the environment, poverty and globalisation. … Nations Web site, which also made…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… Cote d'Ivoire in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming majority in both houses of the…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… African National Assembly passes the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate … pregnancies on request within the…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… eighteen months. It was agreed that the first tranche of shares - at least 20% of Johnnic's 30,4 million shares - would be sold at R50, a 7% … Johnnic's…
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… University in 1925, and studied at the Westminster School of Art in London from 1926-32. Until 1938 she studied in … She returned to South Africa shortly…
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… his request is turned down. Despite South Africa's refusal of military assistance, South African Defence Force (SADF) is … to urge them to keep the situation…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… Al-mohammediyya Mosque . Police arrested 65 members of the sect after the massacre. The tension between the two sects was caused by differences of opinion…