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EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… Force (SADF) raid in Lesotho . The bomb attack was part of Operation Butterfly, conducted by MK, mainly from Swaziland . The aim of the Operation was to…
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… six crew members and 111 passengers from different parts of the world, including British and US diplomats. The … through an electrical storm. President…
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… which begins on April 1, would see growth in excess of 4 percent," Manuel said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) … to sustain the growth rate and to cut a…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
… Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's largest producer of AIDS drugs, announced it would reduce the price of its popular AIDS medication. Combivir, a…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
… African and two Caribbean countries during his State of the Union address at a congress session in the USA. The … the AIDS virus, including 3 million…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… martial law and entered Johannesburg with detachments of the army, supported by the air force. Within four days the revolt was crushed. 153 people, including…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… African language but used English to spread the message of worker unity. Formed in the stormy years after World War I with a membership of only twenty-four,…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pioneer aviatrix
… altitude record for light aircraft, by reaching a height of 18, 000 ft. (m). She was also the first woman to fly … the International Aviation League, for…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… J. Lonsdale. Sandile was a son from the Great House of Ngqika. During the Seventh Frontier War (1846-47) Sandile … place as paramount chief. In 1878 Sandile,…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… control. The test, code named Gerboise Bleue, had a yield of 60-70 kilotons. This test put France in the same atomic … the USSR and Great Britain. The test…
EventDr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, is born in Pretoria
… 1899 in Pretoria. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School from 1916 to 1918. He graduated at the London School of Medicine in 1922…
EventGeneral Christiaan de Wet attacks Rooiwal railway station during the South African War
… Free State. At this point he was the commando-in-chief of the greater part of the Free State commandos. A day before the assault De Wet, … a few gun shots,…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… Innes moved from Cape Town to become the first director of the centre. It was officially opened in 1905 and the first … in 1906. The Observatory sits on a…
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
… at the SABC is wrong and I can no longer be a part of it,” he wrote. Last week, however, media reports contained … glowing affidavit on the SABC for a…
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… were given the authority to arrest anyone they suspected of involvement in an act against the State, and to hold them … to any information, even the identity…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Namibian artist John Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. … KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. There,…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… hunting lodge. The house became known to the people of Durban as the Elephant House after surviving numerous … water from the Greyville Marshes, which are…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… Swaziland in 1966 and went on to study at the universities of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cambridge and the University of Denver where he obtained his PhD…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply from a position of strength declared…
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… 1983. She is a South African hockey legend. Marsha is one of the world’s most capped hockey players, with more than 330 … South African team was in 2001…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… which refers collectively to quasi-military formations of township youth who were also often known as "comrades" or … who supported the United Democratic…
Event18 political prisoners are released from Bophuthatswana
… he was found wearing a T-shirt calling for the release of Johannes Simelane. On 15 October 1991, Rabusang Mannana, a political prisoner, died of an unknown…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt on charges of spying for the Soviet Union began in the Cape Town High … for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)on the…
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic of South Africa in April 1994. His announcement would mean … as Mandela at the time,…
EventPoqo members arrested
… with the police, after taking cover in the hills for fear of being attacked by Poqo members, a standoff ensued. … men charged at the police, resulting in the…
EventSpringboks lose to the Lions
… (Lions) toured South Africa again, winning more than half of their normal matches, as well as the third test match in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa, with…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of Apartheid laws, specifically labour laws. The summit … passed resolutions condemning: The legal…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… President since 15 August 1989, following the abdication of President P.W. Botha in August. President De Klerk started … groups. De Klerk also succeeded in…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… Springbok rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national team of South Africa under mentorship of Nick Mallett, registered an important victory over the … the…
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… the National Party was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. This came after the African … Meyer said his party's withdrawal from the…