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EventMcBride is conditionally released from prison
… Ministry official, Robert McBride, who had been held in Mozambique for six months on charges of gun-running and espionage, was conditionally released from…
EventJ.C. Smuts calls general election
… After losing the Wakkerstroom and Oudtshoorn by-elections in April, prime minister and leader of the South African … (SAP), J.C. Smuts, decided to hold a…
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… Howard of the Union Weather Service from the branch office in Cape Town a few days later. The forecasting service was moved to Pretoria in 1926 and housed on…
EventLeprosy expert Dr Kok is born
… Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy, was born in Brandfort, Orange Free State (now Free State). She who worked mainly in Nigeria. While in charge…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… Naicker, medical doctor and prominent politician, was born in Durban. Naicker played a crucial role in the history of South Africa and his name is well ……
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… studied at the universities of Leyden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. On her return to South Africa after … degree, she lectured at the Huguenot University…
EventBotswana accuses South Africa of kidnapping a former Soweto student leader, Peter Lengene
… Later the Minister of Police confirmed Lengene’s presence in South Africa. He was kidnapped on 6 February and driven in the boot of a car to South Africa…
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… of the former Prime Minister, Barthélémy Boganda (who died in mysterious circumstances during the presidential election … as president. On 31 December 1965…
EventBernert Willemsz Wijlant, the first White baby, is born at the Cape
… Jan Van Riebeek and the Dutch East India Company arrived in the Cape, the first white baby was born. The baby was … he would be the first of many European…
EventCanadians, Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod discover insulin, saving the lives of many diabetics
… first discovered by Frederick Banting and J.J.R Macleod in 1922. The discovery meant that Diabetes sufferers could … Banting was working with J.J.R. Macleod…
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… Robert Mugabe pushed through constitutional changes in 1987 that created an executive presidency. In 1998, after a highly publicized and controversial trial,…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… was to be issued to all races. This Act was first passed in 1950. It defined racial groups relatively loosely. The … Act determined people’s race…
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
… two years after Transkei became an independent homeland. In 1960, before Sigcau became the President of Transkei, … erupted where eleven people were killed,…
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… guerrillas clashed with Rhodesian and South African forces in Wankie and Sipolilo Campaign in Rhodesia. Their fighting ability amazed their enemies as … be a…
EventSouth African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to end apartheid gain momentum
… prisoners like Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa also signaled the end of sanctions and … community. Since the establishment of…
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… a 6 year sentence. On the following day it was published in the Rand Daily Mail (a newspaper banned in March 1985) that he fled to Bechuanaland (now known as…
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… In his speech during the opening of the first Legislative … to assist the Transkei and would train its successors in office. His speech came a year after…
ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE COAT OF ARMS, Kwaggafontein, 27 April 2000
… sustenance to our people for millennia as it will do in perpetuity. The tusks of the African elephant, reproduced in pairs to represent men and women,…
Introduction
… Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. … the civil liberties of the Indians. The…
Matthews being used to turn SABC into a laughing stock: ANC (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… negatively on my moral judgment and has made me complicit in many decisions which I am not proud of”. Kodwa told the … of the SABC‚ given the challenges that…
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
… concentration of early 20th century Edwardian beach houses in South Africa, and face onto the old False Bay coastal … by many as one of the most beautiful…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… after 1775, when both France and the Netherlands came out in support of the newly independent American colonies and … cannon " was established on the Western…
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… The area in the Southern Kalahari , bordered in the East by Botswana and the West by Namibia , is where … descend directly from an ancient population, that…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British soldiers and 4000 Boers engaged in battle. Nineteen British soldiers and three…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall was built in 1882 in Market Street and the Public Building between…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
… Oom Dawid Kruiper, was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite concerns from traditional Koisan … he was supposed to receive. …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… White people’s support for the reform process he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of … to the reform process. With the result of 68.6 per…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), which was active in distributing pamphlets and other material related to the … Fifty-one persons, mainly Communists,…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He … intellectual honesty and for capturing man's divine spark in moments of…
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… Pretorius to assist them to regain their independence. In June 1848, Pretorius marched with a thousand men to the … British Resident, Major Warden, from his…