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EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… The reason that these particular parties were instrumental in Namibia's independence is that Namibia was a protectorate … rule. After years of internal…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… was instituted to investigate into the aircraft crash in which President Samora Machel of Mozambique had been … Machel was on his way back from an…
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… Tice and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally by South African … The remarkable find was announced on 30…
EventWorld Refugee Day
… as World Refugee Day. This day is celebrated worldwide in several countries in different ways. It is a special day for the world to make … individuals to…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… According to News 24 Archives, Raw rose to prominence in the now-defunct United Party (UP) as the party's fortunes declined after it was voted out of office…
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. He was released later in the day on R2…
EventJoseph Kasavubu, first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo dies
… from Belgium on 30 June, 1960. Kasavubu was born in the village of Kuma-Dizi in the Mayombe district of the Lower Congo region. He was a … him to a nearby…
PlaceFree State Stadium
… The Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein was originally built for the Rugby World Cup … Considered to be one of the most sophisticated stadiums in South Africa…
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May 1897. In South Africa he became governor of the Cape. The cape was … State President Paul…
ArchivePostage stamps: Rugby World Cup winners
… background. Multicoloured photographs of stamps issued in 1995 in commemoration of South Africa winning the Rugby World Cup. … Half a gold cup on left hand…
ArchivePriests, protests and politics
… This article discusses the role of clergy in the church in South Africa and the application of Christian principles … political and social spheres within a…
ArchiveDraft transcripts of United Democratic Front
… the UDF on 20 Auqust 1983 marked a dramatic leap forward in the struqqle for freedom in South Africa . It brouoht over 500 qrassroots orqanisations together…
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo), chief of the Bagananwa in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in…
Cassim Mohammed Bassa dies
… , estate agent, community leader and sport activist, died in his sleep in a hotel in Johannesburg , where he had been attending a meeting of …
ArchiveDurbans bread strike
… Huddled in cardboard boxes to keep out the cold, some 800 workers at the B B Bread Bakery in Durban's Sydney Road kept up their night-long vigil to prevent…
ArchiveLetter from the South African Consulate-General, Lorenco Marques, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Pretoria
… Letter from the South African Consulate-General in Mozambique to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in South Africa outlining a briefing of the military…
ArchiveNature and extent of the SADFs involvement i
… Press release issued by Defence Headquarters in Pretoria regarding South Africa's involvement in Angola. Included is a statement issued by the Chairman of…
ArchiveInterview with Tsietsi Mashinini
… Transcript from a radio interview, in New York City, with Tsietsi Mashinini, on the aftermath … riots, international relations and the role of the USA in the…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
… account of the development of civic democracy in nineteenth century Latin America and a Latin American reading of Tocquevillian democracy in the modern west;…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… David Junior Ngcobo, stage name Nasty C was born in Durban[i] on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at … his first mixtape titled “One Kid a Thousand…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… and the only such structure remaining from the ZAR era in the centre of Pretoria. It The ‘Leeubrug’ was built larger … it possibly came from the amount of…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… the Committee of the above Union to urge you to support us in the bitter struggle that now confronts us. Messrs, Scaw … & Aluminium Works. Ltd.,), one of the…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers … The official agreement was signed on…
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… Civic Association collectively rejected the planned move in the Cape Province to remove non-White voters from the … other ratepayers' organisations jointly…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… Ivory Coast was one of the most prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by … external debt rose threefold, crime rose…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… utterances verging on libel, due to the position he took in declining to accept a peace prize, named after Turkey's … committed by Turkey against the…
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… impose stricter sanctions against South Africa. This was in response to international and local outcry against the … from some quarters that argued that…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… In 1815, tensions between the British and Dutch were running … suspected the British of resenting their presence in the Cape Colony. Following the…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… is regarded as one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. The process that led to its approval was not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… possessed a large store of aircraft and personnel trained in their use and maintenance. At the time the British Empire was the largest in the world, and…