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EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was a …
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… pen-and-ink or crayon. About four years before his death in 2006, it was alleged that forgeries were printed and …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people. 26 370 Boer women and children …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… 2007 he married Kundi Jangano in Khartoum. After his death on 3 January 2008, his body was returned to South …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No machine capable of drilling holes large …
EventAmina Lawal’s sentence upheld
… in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upheld a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal. The 31 year old woman had …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… hypocrisy and no more than cheap politicking on life-and-death issues. Buthelezi's statement came out despite the four …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… historians have often neglected those aspects of the pre-1948 city (and, more accurately, the city before the forced … Movement pushed for the immediate…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… the most hallowed of Muslim cemeteries in Cape Town. 1807 Death of Tuan Guru 25 Tuan Guru died at the ripe old age of … 4. Hadrat Shah Goolam Mohamed Soofie …
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… to fill the void, as they drink they expose their frail bodies to water borne illnesses. Millions are ravaged by … helpless millions, imposing avoidable…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… from supporting the British, but these attempts failed. In 1948, shortly after the war, the NP won the national election … ANC’s Chief Representative…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994
… of their functioning simply as duplicates of their mother bodies. Needless to say, what is needed are creative … this effort, I am consulting with relevant…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Honoris Causa Degree Ceremony, at the Salón de Diputados, Old Congress, Santiago, Chile, 7 June 2005
… universities and research institutions and in our regional bodies such as the African Union and the Community of South … Chile and South Africa, as well as…
Concluding Remarks
… as SASO) and its publications, was banned. The violent death in detention of SASO's first president, Steve Biko, … raised fists, dilapidated corrugated…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… it wasn’t left till late in the day, that a lot of these bodies were established at the initiative of the ANC, there … I think it was a very important life…
Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Hungary Budapest, 3 May 1999
… all of us depend on our sustaining and strengthening the bodies which we have, as an international community, created …
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… relations with African countries, and her influence in bodies such as the Non-aligned Movement, the Commonwealth and …
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… Constitution, i.e. access to information held by private bodies required for the exercise or protection of rights. The …
PlaceEmgwenya, formally Waterval Boven
… For those looking to stretch their minds rather than their bodies, the Town is home to a number of National Monuments. …
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
On 5 August 2019, Dale Steyn South African cricketer announced his retirement from the Test format. He made his Test debut against England in December 2004. In…
PlaceSodwana Bay National Park
… is the offspring of a merger between two conservation bodies: the former Natal Parks Board which was formed in 1947 …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… receiving very little formal education, Plaatje at his death in 1932 left behind a prodigious body of journalism. He …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… to state censure. Now the UDF, unions, churches, sports bodies, civil society groupings, among many others, were able … Oscar Dhlomo met with the ANC in May…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was completely abolished, bringing an end to a …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. The Queen of England, who was …
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… November), Taaibosch was killed at Dawidsberg. After the death of Taaibosch, the Basotho army overwhelmed the Batlokwa …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… ties with Moscow. In the entire discourse on the death of Lumumba, the role of the United Nations is seldom …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… office as the Prime Minister of South Africa after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of African National Congress(ANC) members sentenced to death, and mobilised support for their families, as well as …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… purpose of the group. Mahlangu was then sentenced to death. In addition, Motloung was so badly beaten in …