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ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… its goals. When independence was finally achieved on 21 March 1990, some of the PLAN members were integrated into …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… As a result Samuel Makgatho assumes office as president. 21 February, More than 600 men of the South African Native …
Conflict among civic organisations
… CAHAC drew its support from coloured civic organisations. 21 civic organisation affiliated to CAHC were coloured areas. …
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… NUSAS and to establish their own... organisations" (1976: 12). The UWC rector was reported as saying: "I don't want … institution in Athlone, near Cape Town …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… Protests have continued into 2016 on TUT campuses. On the 21 October 2016, Benjamin Phehla while protesting inbetween … until further notice because of…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… can assume conservatively that in South Africa (population 21 million) there are 71h million Black women, 2 million … to black domestic servants in…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… the Zulus. Commending him to your Christian watch and care.12 John Dube, himself still a student at Brooklyn Seminary, … to provide the means for his next…
PlaceMilnerton
… are relatively clean. The Milnerton Lighthouse is a 21 m high cylindrical tower painted white. It boasts a …
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… its first church was built in the town in 1863. Only on 21 December 1894 did the church board decide to gather money …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… ordered a general retreat, before surrendering on the 21 June 1942. Among the units taken prisoner were the Second …
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… in Bloemfontein, Free State, and in Pretoria, Gauteng. On 21 November 2007, a new UN report stated that more than …
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… came into effect on 4 February 1997. The week of 17 to 21 March was named national Constitution Week and over seven …
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… as president of the Republic South Africa on Sunday 21 September 2008. Parliament convened on Monday 22 September …
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… MCC he totaled 545 runs at 60.55 and took 29 wickets at 21.89 - more runs than any other player on either side and …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… Out of a total male African labour force of 88 000 in 1938, 21 000, or one-quarter, worked as domestic servants and lived …
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
… Africa border... He was sentenced in 1973 to 12 years' imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 …
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… is a bronze plaque on a cairn at the top of the Ecca Pass, 12 km South of Grahamstown. It was erected in 1964 by the …
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… This cordiality came to an end though when approximately 12 of the Portuguese sailors visited the Khoikhoi village and …
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… as the "Sterley cottages", are located at no.10 and no.12 Castle Hill, across the road. These are single storey …
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… brown. The outer black primary feathers of the wing, the 12 tail feathers (in other species of this genus there are …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… celebrated annually. It was first celebrated in 2010. On 12 June 1964, Mandela was sentenced to life in prison on …
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. When Ali was 12 years old, he and a friend went to the Columbia Auditorium …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… his plea for a republic. This was also the first time in 12 years of government that the NP was able to gain a …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… 1908 National Convention, which met for the first time on 12 October 1908. By February 1909, a draft of the South …
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… entry from Van Riebeeck's journal for 28 March reads: In 12 deg. S. Latitude [the Amersfoort] had captured a … taken off the Portuguese ship on the coast of…
PlaceSignal Hill
… . One day in June 1895, the Gun fired at 10:30 rather than 12:00 when a spider interfered with the relay used to … Guns in daily use in the World. They fire…
PlaceTokai, Cape Town
… It only takes a mere 23 minutes via this M3 Highway, (21 Kilometers) to get there. This drive is very scenic as you …
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
… being found guilty of murdering her husband. The Star of 21 June 1921 tells of a woman, Emily Chinea, and her …
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… on 23 October 1990 and Gwala died of a heart failure on 21 June 1995. …
Community histories of Rustenburg
… Province) and Botswana areas in 1830. A group of about 12 Eastern Cape farmers living next to the East Riet River … By 1889, Rustenburg had 22 state schools …