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EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… Cote d'Ivoire in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming majority in both houses of the…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… African National Assembly passes the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate … pregnancies on request within the…
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… eighteen months. It was agreed that the first tranche of shares - at least 20% of Johnnic's 30,4 million shares - would be sold at R50, a 7% … Johnnic's…
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… University in 1925, and studied at the Westminster School of Art in London from 1926-32. Until 1938 she studied in … She returned to South Africa shortly…
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… his request is turned down. Despite South Africa's refusal of military assistance, South African Defence Force (SADF) is … to urge them to keep the situation…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… Al-mohammediyya Mosque . Police arrested 65 members of the sect after the massacre. The tension between the two sects was caused by differences of opinion…
EventFNB cancels its R20 million anti-crime initiative designed to encourage President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority
… The bank had launched the campaign with the intention of encouraging then President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his … which had complained that the campaign…
EventSpringbok rugby player, Schalk Burger is born in Port Elizabeth
… the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Burger is considered to be one of the most hardworking players in South Africa. In 2004 Burger won two awards; the IRB…
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 of Miss World in the same year. After winning the Miss … South African pay television channel Mnet as…
EventAfrica Malaria Day
… World Malaria Day was first held in 2008 in recognition of the existence of malaria in countries worldwide. The annual observance held on 25 April is…
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… It is believed that thousands of years ago, people lived on Robben Island. After the Dutch … believed it was safer to keep them separated from the rest of…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… in 1934 where he studied art at the Westminster School of Art. He returned to South Africa in 1935 before leaving … Gogh and later by Piero della Francesca…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… State on 2 September 1905. [i] He attended the University of the Free State. [ii] Hart won six medals at the 1930 and 1934 Commonwealth Games, of which he…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, President Paul Kruger of the "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek" decided that something … Pretoria against possible attacks. Fort…
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… until early 1915 and only then could the invasion of South West Africa be fully launched. On 5 March 1916 South … More than 146 000 Whites, 83 000 Blacks and…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… Lensfield Road Cambridge England Dear Comrade Your letter of the 5th January has been received last night … didn’t, still we are pleased to see that you…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Correspondence 102, 1895, Natal Archives. I am the wife of…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… CONTENTS The Heart of Darkness. Cartoon, Papas. The Pondoland Massacre, Dennis … for a Republic, L.J. Blom-Cooper. The Sacred Trust of South-West Africa, Rev…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Tony O’Dowd. A Day to Remember, Christopher Gell. Portrait of a Suburb: Hillbrow, Arnold Benjamin. South West Africa by Jariretunda Kozonguizi. The…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… revolutionary propaganda leaflets was found by a member of the public. At the Grand Parade, Cape Town, an explosion sent hundreds of ANC pamphlets into the…
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… affairs. The move by Hammarskjöld followed the adoption of Resolution 143 by the UN Security Council, which demanded the withdrawal of Belgian troops and…
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… on video. Charles Taylor, who would later face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC), became head of the Provisional…
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… United Nations Organisation (UNO) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) task force and closed to commercial … out in 1991. The civil war erupted after…
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… was told by the magistrate that the case was not a matter of sudden temptation, but rather the development of a close relationship. Pamela Beira failed to…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art … by Dumile Feni. His involvement…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… first time in SA politics. Hertzog accused Smuts' party of supporting racial equality, and represented a Nationalist … [Accessed 09 June 2010] Chronology of…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … groups and associations under one umbrella. Because of its racial…
EventThe Ben Schoeman freeway is opened
… Johannesburg and Pretoria, named after the then minister of transport, was opened on this date. In the forty years of its existence, traffic volume has…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… and the seventh woman laureate in the near-century history of the Nobel Prize. Gordimer is the author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories; her work…