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EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age. At the age…
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… The largest of Bloemfontein's many Recreational spots, the Park has many … Free State, South Africa. There are two Parks on the West of the City Centre,…
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current … and attempting to reduce the international isolation of…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the … to be in their good…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
… vote or to boycott for their new candidates in the House of Representatives and in the House of Delegates. It goes further to describe and outline the…
ArchiveAfrica beyond the Union
… This address is the fifth of the Heornle Memorial Lecture series delivered by W.M. … the political, economic and social conditions of countries outside of…
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… Archive, situated in the Main Library at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation…
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity … the government that the present political…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… site in 1967. It was originally built in 1871 as a result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail … trial for conspiring to commit…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African … Walter Sisulu against a six years sentence of imprisonment. Sisulu was…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in their … while…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
… The building of the world famous High Aswan Dam, which was also known as … contained 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11…
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
… 1957, was a political activist and served as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South Africa. He … involved in politics while studying at the…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
… Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration … Indian people as…
EventMoses Mabhida receives awards
… Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, was awarded the Soviet Order of the People and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria First Class on his sixtieth…
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… security police served the president and vice-president of the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… Pamphlets were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… after a giant gas explosion, this time not as result of a political attack or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the…
EventMedicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine
… documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV .Glenda Grey of the perinatal HIV Research Unit at Chris Hani…
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… University in Scotland conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law on the South African president and the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Thabo…
EventMahamane Ousmane is overthrown
… suspended, and that the temporary national council of which he was the head of would be in charge of the government. …
EventJB Marks is born
… West Province) on March 21 1903. He was the seventh child of an African railway worker, John Thelelwa Marks, and Betty Esau, who was of White descent. He…
PlaceCarlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape
… Carlisle Bridge is a District of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in … Fish River, but destroyed in 1874 by Floods! The engineer of the…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and British hero at the siege of Mafeking, is born in Paddington, London…
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… from Britain on 30 September 1966 under the leadership of Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National … terms, until he passed away in 1980…
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
… Town some 77 km East of Ermelo. It formed part of the Scottish Settlement established by Alexander … where the State Secratary, Eduard Bok was born and out…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… Happy Joyce Mashamba passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of which have not yet been disclosed to the public. [i]…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… security is paramount at Xanadu and this Estate was one of the first in South Africa to install thermal cameras on … and guard dogs it is hardly surprising…
ArchivePOTWA
… A2 black on yellow silkscreen; cartoons of workers and bosses; text: POTWA Post and Telecommunication … (Mr Privatisation speech): My machines can do the…