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EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity … the government that the present political…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… site in 1967. It was originally built in 1871 as a result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail … trial for conspiring to commit…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African … Walter Sisulu against a six years sentence of imprisonment. Sisulu was…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in their … while…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
… The building of the world famous High Aswan Dam, which was also known as … contained 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11…
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
… 1957, was a political activist and served as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South Africa. He … involved in politics while studying at the…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
… Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration … Indian people as…
EventMoses Mabhida receives awards
… Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, was awarded the Soviet Order of the People and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria First Class on his sixtieth…
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… security police served the president and vice-president of the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… Pamphlets were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… after a giant gas explosion, this time not as result of a political attack or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the…
EventMedicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine
… documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV .Glenda Grey of the perinatal HIV Research Unit at Chris Hani…
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… University in Scotland conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law on the South African president and the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Thabo…
EventJB Marks is born
… West Province) on March 21 1903. He was the seventh child of an African railway worker, John Thelelwa Marks, and Betty Esau, who was of White descent. He…
PlaceCarlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape
… Carlisle Bridge is a District of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in … Fish River, but destroyed in 1874 by Floods! The engineer of the…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and British hero at the siege of Mafeking, is born in Paddington, London…
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… from Britain on 30 September 1966 under the leadership of Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National … terms, until he passed away in 1980…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… security is paramount at Xanadu and this Estate was one of the first in South Africa to install thermal cameras on … and guard dogs it is hardly surprising…
ArchivePOTWA
… A2 black on yellow silkscreen; cartoons of workers and bosses; text: POTWA Post and Telecommunication … (Mr Privatisation speech): My machines can do the…
ArchiveNUSAS talks to the ANC
… Subtitled: Reportback on meeting between the National Union of South African Students and the African National Congress … discussed, which included the the…
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… who was a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he became involved in efforts to create an external wing of…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… 1959, and later as its acting president in exile. A man of high energy and mercurial temperament, he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before…
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… gained its independence from France after two years of negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour (“New … ocean became a constitutional monarchy…
EventMahatma Ghandi sends a telegram to Dr. Dadoo
… Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E.I. Asvat, a decision was taken to launch the Passive Resistance Campaign on 1 August. A Council of…
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… The Greek Government expelled the two-man South Africa team of Dale Hayes and Hugh Baiocchi from the World Cup … Committee against Apartheid to condemn all…
EventDutch East Indian Company expedition into the interior
… long journey, the expedition found on this date survivors of the French ship Le Necessaire at the Gourits River, which had been on a mission to explore…
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… Zulus were killed in confrontation and about 48 000 head of cattle looted from the Boers during the expedition. … had terminated the project because feeding…
EventEsther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zurich
… fight against blindness. In 1971 she was adjudged Woman of the Year by the readers of The Star for her outstanding work in restoring sight to thousands of…
EventTravelling in a cab no longer in fashion
… The Star reported that travelling in a cab was falling out of favour. This trend was attributed to the changing … conditions in Johannesburg and the…