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EventTerre’Blanche and his associates to face terrorism charges
… General announced that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three … would face terrorism charges. They have…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing with the issues in suppressing the aspirations of…
EventMalawian President Hastings Banda visits SA
… Vorster to Malawi in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi became the first head of an independent Black African state to visit South Africa … to…
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
… Park. The conference focused primarily on the drafting of a Women's Charter and the future of the Women's National Coalition. The Women's Charter was adopted…
EventFurther chaos in Liberian civil war
… without them. Doe, amidst ethnic warfare which killed tens of thousands of Liberians and caused over 700,000 more to flee the … and killed by the Independent…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… process in the party that culminates in the appointment of F. W. de Klerk . P.W. Botha presided over South Africa when violence and state suppression of…
EventPresident Hosni Mubarak collapses
… live on television in Cairo. After forty-five minutes of medical attention, Mubarak returned to parliament. … him as he continued with his speech. He told…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of having a child out of wedlock and subsequently found guilty by the…
EventThe National Anti-Corruption Forum is launched in Langa
… J.G. Zuma in Langa, Cape Town. The forum was born of a cabinet decision following the National Anti-Corruption … was consistent with the global call to…
EventElize Botha dies
… Mrs Elize Botha, first wife of former State President P.W. Botha, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western Cape. About…
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… Lydia van Niekerk, professor of Dutch Literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, was born on the farm…
ArticleFunders
… National Lotteries Board The National Arts Council of South Africa The National Heritage Council Bateman BV Department of Basic Education De Beers The…
EventBernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first White baby, is born at the Cape
… named Bernert Willemsz Wijlant and he would be the first of many European babies to be born in the Cape. Baby Wijlant … scriptures and help them draw up…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… which in turn determined the implementation of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, the former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his second wife Ruth … ten years' imprisonment respectively, being…
EventBritish Prime Minister Wilson announces arms embargo on South Africa
… Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, announced in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose an embargo on the export of arms to South…
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
… the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black citizens; this was carried out in terms of the Bantustan policy. The policy assigned…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… The author of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The…
EventProf. Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… course and head the department at the University of Cape Town. Goodwin made a great contribution to the discipline of archaeology including developing the…
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker
… Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner Devout domesticity? A century of African…
EventAstley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… course and head the department at the University of Cape Town. Goodwin made a great contribution to the discipline of archaeology including developing the…
EventChad gains its independence
… to make Chad a French protectorate – under the command of conqueror Rabih al-Zubayr, the Kimgdoms of the Kanem-Bournu, Baguirmi and Ouaddai fought…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… Mvezo is a small Village on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Village is mainly known as being the…
PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
… Former name of Luderitz Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese … with the neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
… globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does the price of textbooks for already overburdened students in South … costs to date by adopting open textbooks,…
PlaceLand Adjoining Earle’s Dyke, Camps Bay.
… This strip of land is still in its natural state and extends from Lion's Head down to the sea, giving visitors a view of one of the most beautiful natural…
EventWilhelmina Johanna (Wilma) Stockenström is born
… theatre productions, but it was only when her first book of poetry, Vir die bysiende leser, (aptly named because of the use of large font) was published in…
EventNative Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers
… at the Cape, it was inhabited by various other people. Two of the most well-known groups are the Khoikhoi, who had been … herders and the San, who had been…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… Six political refugees, Archie Gumede, the president of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Mewa Ramgobin, George … position. It could not expel the men into…
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… that South Africa was completely self sufficient in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime … to South Africa. Magnetrons are vital…