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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…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… This centre was established in memory of Sarah Baartman who was transported in 1810 from South … (SBCWC) was opened in 1999 in response to the high rates of…
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…
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…
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…
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… by South African troops, that violated the sovereignty of its neighbouring countries in order to prop up the … in cases in which South Africa violated the…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… cells on 16 November 1977. Another document gives the date of his death as 7 November 1977. Because of these discrepancies the correct date could not be … …
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… forces from Angola that have been fighting on the side of Jonas Savimbi led guerrilla forces UNITA. The withdrawal came as a result of South Africa losing an…
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid on the home of Judge Dayalin Chetty in Port Elizabeth. The two men had … Consulate, before securing passports and…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… On the night of 15 August 1985, South Africa's President P. W. Botha … the infamous "Rubicon" Speech in Durban. Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Pik…
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the Sao Raphael, … four months…