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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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 6: Towards social change
… Report of the Social Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society …
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…
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…
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 …
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th … trade union in the world to sponsor a CD. The recording of Solidarity Forever was…
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… were killed and several injured, was launched on the house of United Democratic Front (UDF) activist Bheki Ntuli. … Groenewald was acquitted together with…
EventSheila Cussons is born
… the Cape Province. She studied fine arts at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Cussons moved to Israel but … continued to write in Afrikaans. She…
PlaceCofimvaba, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Cofimvaba was probably established in about 1877 when the … and "mvaba", a goatskin bag for milk. This is the name of a nearby river which,…
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
… After the demise of Apartheid, the South African rugby team, … Scotland. The final score line was 34 -10 in favour of the Springboks. …
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat … 5 June 1928 Sir James Liege Hulett…
EventMauritius gains independence
… the country became independent. Mauritius is a melting pot of different nationalities - descendents of Chinese, Indian, African and European immigrants and ……
EventZanzibar and Kenya are admitted to the United Nations.
… Two African countries, Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) and Kenya both became members of the United Nations on 16 December 1963. This year marks … 25 October…
Post NEC & Lekgotla Briefing, 30 January 2017
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a media briefing on the outomces of the NEC meeting and NEC Lekgotla held on the 25th to the …
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of television advertisements for Castor motor oil which …