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PlaceKwaNdebele
… KwaNdebele (or place of the Ndebele) was granted self-government in 1984 and … place …
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… Hepple acted as his legal representative. His trial took place in Pretoria's Old Synagogue. In November 1962, he was …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… organisations and from attending any gathering at any place within the Union of South Africa or the area South West …
EventThe South African cricket team beats England for the first time on English soil
… British, and the first tour by a side from England took place in 1888-89. Here South Africa played its first Test …
EventTwo limpet mines explode in Hillbrow
… carried them down the staircase and put them at another place before they exploded, causing structural damage to the …
EventThomas Thornton becomes the first passenger on an aeroplane in South Africa
… South Africa in a Viosin Canard Seaplane. This flight took place in East London on 28 December 1909,over the Nahoon …
EventPrince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
… monument, was erected to him by Queen Victoria at the place where he had been killed. …
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh in 1859. The son of Charles Altamont Doyle …
EventThe first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken
… The first airmail ever in South Africa took place on 27 December 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew postcards …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… 50 000 people from the steps of the Cape Town City Hall. 27 February, Nelson Mandela travels to Lusaka, … with four others. 2-4 May, The Groote Schuur talks…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… the most importantly, the African miners strike which took place in 1919 where over 70 000 mine workers went on strike. … sides. The workers federation has…
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
… empowered to allow the people to govern, to put in place programmes to eradicate the scourges of poverty and … languages, cultures and arts, and to secure…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… the Mahlangu. The last of these events probably took place in the latter part of the mid-eighteenth century. … Almost from the onset sporadic skirmishes…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… hamstrung because their FSAW structures were no longer in place. In early 1961 it was decided that regional organisers … seems that the ANC has not forgotten…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… lower that it would otherwise have been if it weren't in place? AG Well, the reason that I would say the violence … or less a ceiling on the amount of…
Looking After Freedom - ending 16 June
… influence internationally. The exhibition, which takes place from 23 May 2017 - 16 June 2017 at the Michaelis …
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… a public road. If you have a friend in the appropriate place in the complex you can just see the house through the … place …
PlaceBotanical Gardens, Pretoria
… ridge vegetation. The Garden is really a spectacular place to visit. The Pretoria Botanical Gardens was declared a … place …
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… into independence in 1960. The same development took place in British Somaliland when Britain ended its …
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… Freedom Party (IFP). The elections were set to take place on April 27. This announcement emerged after several …
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… to the transformation and negotiations process, taking place in SA. However, the US government did support and …
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… Africa hosted and won the Rugby World Cup. The event took place after the first South African non-racial polls of 1994. …
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… earlier in January. The official ratification took place on 30 June 1914 through the exchange of letters between …
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
… became mandatory, and other sanctions were still not in place. On 23 July 1970, the United Nations (UN) Security …
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… (ANC) were held on 2, 3 and 4 May 1990. These talks took place at the most delicate stage of negotiations. Violence …
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… collaboration from political parties that have chosen to place the nation first. We welcome the statement by … crime in our country tends to be violent,…
PlaceUpington, Northern Cape
… Upington is the chief City in the Northern Cape Region, of South Africa. It was … to popular hotspots make it the centre of this vast City. Upington boasts a…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… is understood, intends to remove the Indians in town to a place called Waterval, 43/4 miles distant from Johannesburg … is submitted that to ask the Indians…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… against overwhelming odds, and to secure for themselves a place to settle, a home to call their own, free of the … women and children, half of them black…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… in such award winning restorations as the East London City Hall, the historic Vergelegen homestead near Somerset … Queen Victoria Street, as well as for the…