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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…