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EventMerenstejin Sinks
… as it is now spelled) a Dutch merchant ship that was built in Amsterdam, Holland in 1693 with a passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off … their lives. The…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam … Kolo Zulu and was a member of the…
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… Commons that every effort was made to improve conditions in concentration camps in South Africa. The camps were set up during one of the toughest and…
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… The 33rd lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture series delivered by Alan Paton in Johannesburg on 23rd May 1985, in which he believes…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… Unbanning the ANC, is an admission that your banning in March 1960 was wrong. It was a mistake. Your embrace of a … democracy goes further and says that we…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 9th National Conference of the Non-European Movement in Pietermaritzburg, on the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This … discussed with focus on the…
Liberation
… Liberation was founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and non-establishment Whites in South Africa. It was…
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to participate in any way in the activities of the union…
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Corporation Ltd (ARDC), was born…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an emergency session in Durban and decided on a hartal on 13 June, which was … to read E.S…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… the funeral. He was the husband of Victoria Mxenge who, in December 1985, while preparing to defend the United Democratic Front and the Natal Indian Congress…
EventFinal Commission report on University Christian Movement
… was that the UCM, as a multi-racial body, had engaged in dangerous activities aimed at propagating violent … South African Students Organisation (SASO),…
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for 2 April in KwaZulu-Natal. The local ANC executive organiser convinced the ANC national executive that in view…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was appointed as new chief-of-staff of MK to … Africa during the 1980s, a period during…
EventTshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
… Tshwane Metro's 5th anniversary celebrations. Held in Church Square in Pretoria's city centre, the celebrations began with … Afro music groups and performers…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… admitted for medical observation. He was the first MEC in the country to pass away in office. A committee was set up by the ANC and his family … to make…
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… its 18th anniversary by becoming the first trade union in the world to sponsor a CD. The recording of Solidarity … both the musicians and delegates. Cosatu…
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… On this day in history, at least 22 people were killed and 4000 left homeless, when a severe storm hit Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape Province of South…
EventSheila Cussons is born
… poet Sheila Cussons was born at Moravia, near Piketberg in the Cape Province. She studied fine arts at the University … Cussons moved to Israel but continued…
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog founds the Free State National Party
… officially established the Free State National Party in Smithfield, Orange Free State. As the National Party was … federal basis, separate branches of the…
EventErmelo is founded
… industrial and commercial centre of a 7,750m² district in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the … Dutch Reformed Church, who was converted…
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
… (Springboks/Amabokoboko) went to Murrayfield, Edinburgh in Scotland to engage their Scottish counterparts. The last time the team made a trip to Scotland was…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… for the treatment of Chief Bhambatha's injured warriors in 1906. This year marks the centenary of the birth of one of … will last forever to us who worked…
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… appreciation of the world community. We need to take pride in our ability to appreciate the positive step that has rebuilt in us a new sense of belonging and…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
… The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli … Jim Summers Hall at 14h00. All volunteers will be engaged in a…
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… present Venterstad district, Eastern Cape. It was laid out in 1875 and attained Municipal status in 1895. Named after the owner of the land on which it was ……
PlaceKookfontein
… of our wine. Climate is considered the principal factor in the potential style and quality of wine that a region can … climates have consistently produced…
PlacePump House, corner Prince and Sir George Grey Streets, Oranjezicht.
… it is used to pump water from the Robinson Dry Dock in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. It is also the building … introduced whereby water from the mountain…
PlaceTable Bay
… Dias was the first European to explore the region in 1486. The region of the Western Cape which includes the … shores of Table Bay they came into contact…