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EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
… Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts announced the intention of the government to introduce new legislation to replace the … be entitled to elect three White…
EventArtist Allina Ndebele is born
… September 2005, president Thabo Mbeki bestowed the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver on her for excellent contribution in the field of the creative arts. …
EventDjibouti and Cote d’ Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… and his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other African countries announced their willingness to … Africa, whilst Cote d'Ivore announced the…
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
… days after the visit. Botha also announced the opening of a trade mission in St Petersburg. References: Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for…
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky … coup attempt by the PPP. Mangope announced…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State government's policy monitoring and … shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's wife…
EventMiriam Makeba is nominated for a Grammy
… album was released world-wide and featured a collection of songs from buoyant to the plaintive, illustrating the vocal range and power of this celebrated…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… which were handed over by the TRC for his involvement of the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by his regime. …
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… Founding member of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), Colin Wells Eglin was … political career, Eglin was instrumental in the merging of the Progressive…
EventThe first plots are sold in Mayfair on the West Rand
… The Johannesburg suburb of Mayfair was laid out the farm Langlaagte No.258, the farm … gold was discovered in the late 1800s. The mineral rights of…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the age…
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… eliminate Nkrumah, exploded and killed four people, scores of whom were left injured. Four years before this incident, … Detention Act which he used to…
EventThe Roman Catholic Church decides, in principle, to open its 192 all-white schools to black pupils
… than 20 000 learners from Soweto marched against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. The uprising then … 2014]|O…
ArchiveMoral suasion
… Lecture series on january 18, 1978 at the University of Cape Town. The lecture comprises of some statistical information regarding South Africas' …
ArchiveSouth African Church leaders confront the Sstate
… out on the short walk to Parliament to present a petition of protest. Within minutes the leading clergy were bundled … Tutu to State President P W Botha…
PlaceMusgrove road, Berea
… P Piekes. Erected in 1904-05, it is an excellent example of the Natal verandah house popular at the beginning of the 20th century, and includes a finely…
EventNasty C, the South African hip hop artist and song writer is born
… on 11 February 1997.[ii] He started rapping at the age of nine.[iii] Nasty C was previously signed to the Free World … Freshman” awarded. He was nominated…
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… He was acting according to the instructions of Zacharias Wagenaer, Commander at the Cape. De la Guerre … probably progressed to within eight to ten days…
PlaceMagistrates Court, Main Road, Simonstown
… first occupant. Admiral Lord Nelson is presumed to be one of his first visitors after his arrival in Simons Town on 21 May 1776. Towards the end of the 18th…
PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
… Construction of this complex dates from the mid 19th Century and reflects a blending of Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian Architectural Features. …
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
… after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age, and at the…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… was designated "Resistance Day" to mark the beginning of Passive Resistance against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the Cape Province, where he was born. … Rousseau. (From…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated … Sonderling, N…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than 15 000 people attended the funeral. He was the husband…
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… South Africa was one of the countries that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons. Other countries that signed the…
EventAWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested
… The leader of the right-wing political organisation, Afrikaner … Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Eugene Terre'Blanche, and nine of his followers were arrested and…
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… and two children, were killed in the eastern Rand township of Daveyton, near Benoni. The incident, which was followed by a barrage of criticism, prompted the…
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
… Hollywood. Set amidst the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto - where survival is the primary objective - Tsotsi ("thug" or "gangster") traces six days…
EventDefence Minister disputes HIV statistics in SANDF
… The South African Minister of Defence Mosioua Lekota dismissed as 'fallacy' claims that 89% of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) had …