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EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have … described the success as ‘unequalled in the…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to … between Katanga troops and the non combatant forces of the…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. … certain specified unjust and racially…
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… Parliament approved the unilateral official cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty of 1936 and appointed Crown Prince Farouk as king. Between ……
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… and Cape community leader, died on this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the first…
EventLesotho addresses political exiles in the country
… to leave the country, to indicate proposed dates of departure and countries of choice. Transit rights through South Africa would be … Prime Minister B.J…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for ……
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… 30 April 1991, the ANC shall consider the suspension of the whole negotiation process" and announced that 1991 would be a "year of mass action". It rejected…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… Mozambique and the Soviet Union rejected the findings of the Margo Commission, led by Justice Cecil Margo. The … into the aircraft crash in which President…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers fearing for their … The decision to…
EventSA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
… The seventeen year old Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys' High, Oscar Pistorius, fell coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amputees,…
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… mainly written in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work - and those of other Afrikaans poets - into English. Her work was also … German,…
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… On 6 March 1902 in the district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment … in which 56 Boers were killed, three captured and 380 head of…
EventNiel van der Watt, SA composer is born
… known for his choral compositions. He comes from a family of teachers. He obtained his high School education in … cum laude and an MMus in Composition at the…
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… its first Interim Report, satisfied with the number of countries that had broken off diplomatic and commercial … The country was under immense pressure…
EventDemonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C.
… rights activists, Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica and Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, were…
EventTinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player is born in Harare, Zimbabwe
… he joined Kaizer Chiefs, including the PSL ‘Footballer of the Year’ for the 2003/2004 season and the ‘Player’s Player of the Season’ 2003/2004. He was also…
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei , now part of Eastern Cape Province . His involvement in political … until…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… His first novel, Les soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence, 1970) was a stern criticism of the government of an independent CÁ´te d'Ivoire…
PlaceAlbert Falls, near Pietermaritzburg
… Waterfall in the Umgeni River, 22 km North-East of Pietermaritzburg. Probably named after the consort of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert. It is also the name…
ArchiveNUSAS 61st Congress, 28 November - 1 December, Wits, 1983
… Programme for the 61st Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28 November to 1…
ArchiveWomens Day celebrations
… Multicoloured poster. 45th anniversary of women's day at Union Buildings, Pretoria. Gauteng Provincial Government logo. Photograph of the protest 45 years…
ArchiveOxford : 1960s - 80s : State repression intensifies
… Brown, red and black poster. Photograph of hundreds of rope nooses. Quote from Max Coleman. Photographs of Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett who died in detention and…
ArchiveECCF peace festival 93
… White poster. Notice of festival at Wits Students Union. List of attractions and speakers. Blue and white image of brick wall. Broken chain with ECC at top…
ArchiveThe Exit gate
… and white poster. Notice by South African Communist Party of meetings regarding CODESA, during June 1992. List of dates, times and venues of meetings. Issued…
ArchiveUmkhonto we sizwe
… Green, yellow, black and white poster. Notice of an intended 30 year anniversary rally. ANC logo. Artwork of a wheel over the zero of number thirty with a…
ArchiveCultural Day
… with black lettering and artwork. COSATU Logo. Image of a tree with a band playing underneath. List of speakers. Notice of COSATU Congress Cultural Day on…
ArchiveNUMSA demands
… poster with black lettering. Images in red in background of two people. List of demands for 16th June to be public holiday. In memory of 16th June 1976…
ArchiveCultural evening
… White poster with black lettering. Notice of a cultural evening on the 22nd May 1988 at Bozzolli … Pavilion. Issued BSS Women's Group. Black and white image…