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EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… The Niger president, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, was … own presidential guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Immediately after the…
PlaceAndalusia, Cape and Transvaal Border
… Former name of Jan Kempdorp. Named after the region in southern Spain, which was the ancient maritime kingdom of Tarshish. Jan Kempdorp was laid out on the…
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…
PlaceClocktower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… The Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was the original Port Captain's Office built in 1882. The pointed … The…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… promise in 1939 that SA troops would only fight in Africa. The Sixth South African Armoured Division, the most powerful and best equipped of the South…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria , took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen …
EventNegotiators representing Afrikaner Republics travel to Pretoria to present terms of surrender
… At the end of the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902, negotiators for the Afrikaner republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free…
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The South African Commissioner of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the African population, were suspended until normality had …
ArchiveIn Verwoerd's South Africa: a tale of per
… The article describes the experiences of various members of the Unity Movement and those directly involved with the …
EventSouth African Springbok rugby tour in UK is disrupted by anti-apartheid demonstration.
… The South African Springbok rugby tour in the United Kingdom (UK) was disrupted by an anti-Apartheid demonstration. The team was made up entirely of…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… The Save South Africa campaign is calling on all South … Africans to unite behind that great symbol of our nation, the National Flag, to a “People’s Assembly…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from its owner, J Albertyn, and developed it as a residential suburb of Cape…
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
… battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based … were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… George Montsio called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… Campbell Mzoliza Jordan Xhosa writer and linguist died in the United State of America in Madison Wisconsin. Jordan was born on 30 October 1906 at the…
58. Congress has sold our rights
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African Indian Congress…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed by the Soviet Union and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… attended Catholic schools before pursuing a law degree at the University of Havanna, where he also began his political … exile in Mexico, but returned to…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… A passionate lecturer pioneering the teaching of radical political philosophy, Dr. Richard … Turner was assassinated. Turner met his untimely death on the…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The inauguration came just two days before his 57th birthday. The occasion was also a farewell to…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… recent university graduate, began working as an intern in the White House. This was during Bill Clinton's first term of office. A relationship developed…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… and to land at his birthplace Qunu. HOUSE With regard to the so-called ownership scheme our main difficulty is that we … do not qualify. When your man is 1…
PlaceSeal Island
… Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or … been offering daily scenic cruises to Duiker Island to…
PlaceRiverside
… an eccentric trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious miser whose mode of dress was more suited to the…
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… Calitzdorp is a Town on the Western side of the Little or Klein Karoo in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and lies on South … Calitzdorp is a Town…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… The Diggers’ Memorial is one of the monuments that constitute part of this heritage, … Their strength and power is seen as they work hard under the weight of…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist Party of…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… a school boycott in his area. This was in support of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 after seeing those that were protesting against the government walking in…