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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…
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…
EventGeneral Laws Amendment Bill is passed
… parties and severe criticism by the Bar and a number of judges. The Bill contained far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of…
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,…
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…
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…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… The ruling did not apply, however, to the crime of treason committed in wartime. The Court ordered, with … penalty which took place in February 1995. Until…
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…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third … British government defeat the Basotho during the Gun War of 1880-1881. In…
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…
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…
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…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
… The ANC has noted with disappointment the verdict of the High Court - Cape Division on the case between itself … forward. The ANC finds it very unfortunate…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa, 34 km North of Welkom. It was founded in 1950 and…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… Cannon , was salvaged in May 1977 from the Shipwreck site of the Portuguese Ship- Sacramento , which ran aground near … DONATED BY COMMANDER C J ALLEN 30…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . … early 19th Century. It subsequently…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that previously formed part of the farm Weltevreden. The outbuildings date from the same ……
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Acknowledgements Title and Dedication - A People's History of South Africa Contents Epigraph - Questions of a Worker Reading History Introduction Part 1 -…
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… decided whether South Africa should remain a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations or declare a republic. The voting age restriction … while the…