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EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… An attempt on the life of President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana fails. Nkrumah escaped an assassination attempt when … Detention Act, which he had used to…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Former National Party leader and Prime Minister of South Africa, Advocate J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during … Freedom Charter, which embraced the…
EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… the first time in Parliament. The Bill was a cornerstone of the Apartheid policy as it recognised three race … until a fourth racial group was added later…
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
… Umbumbulu, Natal. Dhlomo served in the homeland government of Kwa-Zulu under the leadership of Mangosuthu Buthelezi as Minister of Education and Culture. He…
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
… Founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , Robert Mangaliso … midnight and 01h00 on February 27, 1978. Sobukwe died of lung…
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… Born in Transkei, Jolobe was best known for his collection of poems, Umyezo (1936). He also played a major role in the compilation and translation of the…
EventBritish labour conditions in South Africa condemned
… Report on Black Labour Conditions indicated that 63 of the 141 British companies investigated have been paying … were: the British government should initiate…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… and composer who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social Centre in Beatrice Street, Durban (YMCA), … age and his first attempt at…
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… leader, Gen. Bantu Holomisa , announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan African … In the same speech Holomisa announced the…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… 'Reg' September was a prominent trade unionist, the leader of the South African Coloured People's Organization and an executive member of the South African…
EventFirst aeroplane flight takes place
… On the morning of 17 December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in … in a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. The brothers…
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… 24 crew members and nine technicians under the leadership of Lt-Col. Spencer Morgan were based in Durban. America hoped … Florida into the Indian Ocean,…
EventA Zairian aircraft crashes in Angola, killing 141 people.
… Electra plane owned by Zaire’s (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Trans Service Airlift Company, crashed shortly … after takeoff from Jamba Airport in Angola…
PlaceIndian Army Memorial
… This memorial was erected towards the end of 1902, on the highest point in Johannesburg ; Observatory … , Sikhs , Christians , Muslims and Zoroastrians…
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved were South African National … Force (SANDF) soldiers, while the other three…
ArchiveCultural considerations for a democratic South African Constitution
… Paper produced by the ANC Department of Arts and Culture from an in-house seminar on … Africa, held in Lusaka, Zambia. Argues that the formation of…
PlaceDe Goede Verwachting, 17 Cavalcade Road, Green Point
… The land, which included the whole of Green Point, was granted in 1814 to David Kuuhle. Construction of the house probably began almost immediately and for…
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
… The Secretary-General of the Supreme African Sports Council, Jean-Claude Ganga, … rugby team was touring the banned South Africa. On the eve of the opening…
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international. It is a primary institution of breaking news in South…
EventThe Nationalist Party wins election with a reduced majority in the National Assembly
… (NP) to power, albeit with a reduced majority in the House of Assembly compared to previous elections . The opposition … election since South Africa since…
EventLouis Washkansky dies
… Fifty four year old dentist Louis Washkansky, recipient of the first successful human heart transplant in the world, … died in Cape Town, eighteen days after…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Dr. Peter A.J. Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone … report in which he stated that while there was no evidence of police…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… military wing. South African covert forces were suspected of having planted the bomb with the aim of killing members of the liberation movement living in…
EventSouth Africa wins the 2010 bid to host the Soccer World Cup
… On 15 May 2004, the president of the Federation of International Football Association's (FIFA), Joseph "Sepp" … by a delegation that included Nelson Mandela…
EventWinnie and Nelson Mandela divorce
… After 38 years of marriage, Judge Eloff granted Nelson and Winnie Mandela a … The Mandelas were married in 1958 and only spent a couple of years together…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the African National Congress who … ANC guard in Luanda. Sources: South…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS: … Department; Ari Sitas: The Publication…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after his drink was … work for nothing", in 1974 he entered…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… working. He was accompanied by Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales. The men were stood in lines on the lawn. The King … the sea to help in this great war. I…
PlaceDock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town
… Provisional protection of a monument- Dockhouse No. 1 and No. 2, off Portswood Road, … and 6 and 10. The Cell Block and Treadmill, remains part of the old…