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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…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … groups and associations under one umbrella. Because of its racial…
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…
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…
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… day, more than 20 000 learners marched against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. Seatlholo faced … included leaving…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventThe railway line between Cape Town and George is opened.
… development, as it allowed for the effective transport of heavier freight loads. It also allowed for easier passenger travel. Until then, the main form of…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… He later joined and sat on the central committee of the Mau Mau. When Kenya gained independence, Kaggia became a member of parliament and served as minister…
Russian poster.
… Multicoloured artwork of a cross section of a tree. …
ArchiveNo to war
… Disarmament poster. Artwork of a white dove of peace. …