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PlaceZorgvliet, Sir George Grey Street, Oranjezicht
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 20 February 1981. It appears that some time during Sir George …
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
In 2007, Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata drove through garden wall of a house north of Johannesburg. He was found to be drunk by police and is said to…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… to prevent a war between the Herero and the colonists. 20 February, Orders are sent from Berlin that only an … and the Bondelswartz’s territory, as German…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… support from other parts of the country and more than 20 000 people rallied behind the protests. As a result the …
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… standards and practices of her own people.” (Kuzwayo 1990, 115). She adopted the truth of her South African … on sharing it with “pride and confidence,” …
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… Gauteng. The first day of the hearings was on 20 August 2018, with Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in … at file:///C:/Users/hp/Downloads/43563_28-7…
PlaceThe South African Police Service Museum
… and old magistrate’s court was based. It opened on 21 June 1990 but closed a few years later due to damage to the … . Accessed [20/05/2020]. Monique…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… the ANC's Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the …
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… so popular that Heracles would draw crowds in excess of 20,000, despite being based in Almelo, a town of just 35,000 … a car park by three masked assailants…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… excluded that portion. The 2015 SRC estimated that over 20 000 returning students across the University’s six campus … West campuses amidst the student…
Indian Community
… lived in shacks without basic services. By 1936, only 20% of Indians owned houses in Durban that were made of … compulsory for the holder of any estate where…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… In 1990, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… the disbandment of the UDF. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC …
Museum Night Cape Town 2016
… Memorial. The supporting programme features more than 20 performances, installations, walkabouts, film screenings …
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
On 20th August 1983, the United Democratic Front was launched at the Rockland Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid…
EventWorld Heart Day is first celebrated
… Close to 20 million lives a year are lost to cardiovascular diseases …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
The South African government introduced this the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a limited system of…
EventThe Battle of Blood River
… the leadership of Dingane the Zulu King. About 10 000-20 000 Zulu warriors led by Dingane's generals Dambuza …
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… It was agreed that the first tranche of shares - at least 20% of Johnnic's 30,4 million shares - would be sold at R50, …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
Journalist, short-story writer and actor William (Bloke) Modisane was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile…
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… would also have resulted in wage cuts. The strike of the 20 000 White miners meant that the 180 000 Black workers had …
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… 4 February 1994 Abbas al-Bager Abbas opened fire killing 20 praying muslims and wounding 33 others in a mosque in … [Accessed: 18 January 2012]|BBC News…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Monneypenny, the editor of The Star newspaper, and fined £20. Monneypenny, who had only been in South Africa for two …
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… A search for other members of this movement continued. The 20 accused were later convicted of treason. …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… each sentenced to a term of imprisonment and 25 lashes. On 20 January a white farmer from Camperdown was murdered after …
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
ArticleSS Mendi
… reached their destination. Leaving Plymouth harbour on 20 February 1917 during the late evening, she sailed towards …
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… began and who initiated them. Did it start with the 1990 speech in Parliament by F. W. de Klerk? With the first … paragraphs of the Sunday Times editorial of…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… annexed Ethiopia. Haile Selassie addressed the League on 20 June 1936, the same time that the League officially …